AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Inside Online Video
Cisco Systems this week released Approaching the Zettabyte Era, a report on the growth of the Internet through 2012. The predictions for the Internet alone are food for thought (annual traffic in 2012 will be 522 exabytes), but it should surprise no one that online video plays an enormous part in those predictions.
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Business Week
Competitions from the likes of Microsoft and Virgin are sparking innovation and drawing thousands of contestants from around the world
The Bean Cup, a coffee house on the southern edge of Indianapolis, is about as far as you get from Silicon Valley, culturally speaking. Shoehorned between an Arthur Murray Dance studio and a shuttered beauty [...]

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TechCrunch
YouFig is a free social platform for collaboration that just entered public beta.
During its closed beta period, which started in January, it saw activity in over sixty communities including one used by an internal Cisco team. While there are a number of similar (and more feature complete) competitors already available, YouFig hopes to set itself [...]

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The Wall Street Journal
When Scott Weiss heard that tech behemoth Cisco Systems Inc. wanted to acquire an email-security company like his startup, he emailed a vow to his staff: “Said acquiree will not be us.”
Cisco was famous for fueling its stellar growth by buying dozens of companies and digesting them completely, installing its own executives [...]

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Cisco to Sell Faster Switch for Flood of Remote Data - The New York Times
Cisco Systems plans on Monday to introduce a network switch for corporations grappling with rapidly growing Internet data transfers and the increased use of applications that draw on remote data storage, known as cloud computing.
The switch, called the Nexus 7000, will [...]

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