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• Cisco Q3 revenue, earnings fall

  Cisco Systems' revenue for its third fiscal quarter fell 17 percent from a year earlier, while net income plunged 21 percent to US$1.3 billion, or $0.23 per share.

• Regus picks Polycom for telepresence after Cisco deal fails

  Regus, a provider of rented space and service for business, is getting set to deploy Polycom telepresence suites in at least 30 locations worldwide after a similar 2007 arrangement with Cisco Systems fell through.

• RIM to bind BlackBerry to Cisco phones

  Research In Motion and Cisco Systems are teaming up to let enterprises integrate their BlackBerrys with Cisco IP phones, providing single-number capability and other features.

• HP ProCurve gets into security with new server blade

  HP ProCurve is adding a security blade to edge and core switches that enables businesses to insert firewalls, VPNs and IDS/IPSs wherever they have one of the switches.

• IBM to resell Brocade's Foundry switches

  Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears to be in retaliation for Cisco's recent entry into the blade server market.

• Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Cisco CEO

  If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it's John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems' Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry's move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also "a security nightmare."

• 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

  IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.

• Cisco bolsters security family

  Cisco Tuesday announced the Cisco IPS Sensor v. 7.0, adding what it calls "reputation analysis" to augment the signature-based defense of the intrusion-prevention system.

• BladeSystem Matrix takes aim at Cisco

  HP has rolled out BladeSystem Matrix, a converged software, server, storage and network platform designed to compete against Cisco's Unified Computing System.

• Cisco reveals aggressive pricing for blade server system

  As promised, Cisco this week divulged more details on its Unified Computing System for data centers, including pricing and performance benchmarks.

• Cisco 'could' announce 10% layoffs, analyst predicts

  Forecasting a significant drop in revenue for the fourth quarter, a J.P. Morgan analyst Tuesday reported that Cisco Systems Inc. "could" announce a 10% workforce reduction soon, equal to about 6,600 employees.

• Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch

  Sun Microsystems introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco Systems.

• IDC: IBM to steal market share from HP in x86 space

  The new IBM range of Nehalem-based x86 servers and blades could see Big Blue take market share off HP, according to analysts.

• Clearwire plans Silicon Valley 'sandbox' WiMax network

  Clearwire is teaming up with Google, Cisco Systems and Intel to build a WiMax network in Silicon Valley for software developers to try out new applications on the fourth-generation mobile broadband technology.

• Cisco rolls out low-end ($US89K) telepresence system

  Cisco is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a lower cost telepresence system designed for deployment in existing teleconference rooms without upgrading them to accommodate top-of-the-line telepresence gear.