December 3, 2008
Cisco cancels key meetings to save costs
Network World
Cisco Subnet reveals news about Cisco’s latest cost-cutting efforts for the coming year.
“Cisco’s cost-saving efforts continue as the networking giant is reported to have canceled some key meetings over the coming year. Corporate Meetings & Incentives is reporting that Cisco has scrapped plans for its annual Global Sales Meeting scheduled for August in San Francisco. (The online news source also reports that NetApp has also canceled a user conference that was scheduled to take place in the California city in February).”
Asus: $200 netbooks next year
Register Hardware
Tony Smith writes about a new netbook set to come out from Asus next year.
“Asus is to take on the $199 OLPC XO laptop with a $200 Small, Cheap Computer for the developing world. The company’s keeping mum about the details of the machine, saying only that it’ll debut in Q1 2009 for $200 .”
Nokia Announces Chunky, Full-Featured N97 ‘Cellphone’
Wired
Charlie Sorrel provides details about Nokia’s new N97 mobile device.
“Nokia, once King of the Mobiles, has been dragging its heels of late. We see the company’s new N97, a touchscreen and QWERTY equipped ‘multimedia computer.’ The phone sports a huge 32GB of memory, boost-able to 48GB with microSD cards, 3G comes in HSDPA flavor and there is Wi-Fi in the shape of 802.11b and g.”