As GigaOM reported, Google announced the $625M acquisition of Postini this morning, which was not unforeseen. With Cisco’s $800M acquisition of Ironport (which was hardware-based), Symantec’s $300M acquisition of Brightmail (which channeled its services...
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3466 FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance The Justice Department and the FBI ask regulators for expanded technical capabilities to intercept Voice Over IP communications… and anything else that uses broadband. By Kevin...
Charlie G. is my hero. This is a great deal that should have happened way back in 1998 when Cisco decided to hire Robba to run its consumer Line of Business. -Ian.
http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry First published January 7, 2003 on the ‘Networks, Economics, and Culture’ mailing list. By Clay Shirky To understand what’s going to happen...
This is a watershed event for Cisco — since the quote here is from Roland Acra that tells us that this deal is largely voice-based. SBC is probably putting together an IP-Centrex service using Cisco gear. -Ian. —- http://news.com.com/2100-1033-978126.html...
