Permira, which is a private equity firm of the Media Empire News Corporation, has sold pay-TV encryption company NDS to Cisco for a whopping $5bn. NDS provides encryption technology for BSkyB. This acquisition makes London based company one of highest grossing investments of News Corporation in the last 20 years.

Microsoft has taken over Skype for $8.5bn (i. e. £5.4bn) but Cisco has recently announced about its decision to challenge the merger soon at one of EU's top court as it wants to ensure that Microsoft do not block any other video services in working at present.

According to 2010 Annual Security Report by Cisco, the year 2010 witnessed a dramatic fall in the levels of spam, despite the fact that the increasingly sophisticated social-engineering scams targeted a number of Internet users.

Consumers and especially those who are entertainment lovers are in for a huge treat in this New Year. So remember that Cisco System Inc introduced a newly modeled home entertainment system that has a monster function.

A Friday announcement from Cisco Systems revealed that the former Apple executive Mark Papermaster has been hired by the company; and will oversee the creation of chips for Cisco's networking switches.

Linking digital device will apparently become a lot easier in the near future, as the non-profit Wi-Fi Alliance – including members like Apple, Intel, Cisco and other leading tech vendors - Monday started certifying products as Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Direct.

Cisco, one of the leading networking equipment manufacturers, announced its first home videoconferencing set-up on Wednesday in San Francisco. The set-up, called Umi telepresence, is a “tranformational” consumer-level videoconferencing system that allows users to connect to others from their living rooms.

Most of the notebooks including PC's and many new Android based tablets which are due to hit the markets soon, are believed to come with an in-built camera. This in-built camera would be perfect for video conferencing via Skype.

Since the very first day in this week, the Internet has been full of fake LinkedIn contact request and the experts have advised the internet users not to fall in any fake link.

To offer cloud services, four Companies namely, Orange Business Services, Cisco, EMC and VMware have entered an alliance, called Flexible 4 Business.