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• Five Minute Interview: Neil Crockett, Cisco

  Neil Crockett, managing director 2012 at Cisco UK & Ireland, takes the hotseat for our Five Minute Interview.  Continue Reading

• Video: as simple as a phone call?

  Video continues to rise in popularity, but will it ever achieve the ubiquity of the traditional voice call?  Continue Reading

• Meet John Chambers, Huawei's new marketing star

  MicroScope has long been a fan of Cisco CEO John Chambers. We admire him for, among other things, his easy-going manner, his old school Southern charm and his willingness to be outspoken and candid when it comes to the big issues of the day.  Continue Reading

• Booze-fuelled BlackBerry stabbing caps off rotten week at RIM

  As if it wasn't bad enough that ill-considered comments from CEO Thorsten Heims led last week to panicked headlines about RIM being on the verge of quitting the consumer business, a violent incident at a vendor event in London has covered the cake ...  Continue Reading

• The return of the payphone

  So often neglected and easily ignored in this mobile-driven age, could the humble payphone be set for a resurgence? Comms disite Nimans is counting on it, and has signed an exclusive agreement with payphone vendor Solitaire to offer the UK's first ...  Continue Reading

• Careful what you say there Thorsten

  Any business leader will know the importance of being clear in their language. Say something wrong and it can seriously damage the share price. So perhaps the Blackberry maker RIM's new CEO is getting a lesson in the value of being careful fairly ...  Continue Reading

• Column: Wi-Fi makes cities more dangerous - great news for security resellers!

  London is lagging behind Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris and Stockholm in mobile cybercrime, according to a new risk analysis report commissioned by Norton.  Continue Reading

• Column: It's in the public interest

  In the public interest, this column spear phished Piers Morgan, so we could help put the record straight and prove his innocence of all the disgraceful charges of phone hacking.  Continue Reading

• Start-up offers Cisco $1 for WebEx

  Private equity-backed meeting platform software specialist SalesCrunch has made an apparently genuine offer to Cisco to buy its WebEx web-conferencing service for a single dollar (63p), plus 15% equity in the business.  Continue Reading

• Five minute interview: Tim Marston, 10gen

  This week, Tim Marston, EMEA channel manager at open source database software specialist 10gen, answers our probing questions Tell us what you do for a living. As the EMEA channel manager for 10gen, I am responsible for building and managing our ...  Continue Reading

• Welsh businesses could get .Cymru domain names

  Businesses based in Wales could soon be able to end their URLs with .Wales or .Cymru after.uk guardian Nominet unveiled plans to set up a top level domain (TLD) for the Principality.  Continue Reading

• Reseller remakes Snakes on a Plane

  One reseller-turned-amateur pilot on the Czech Republic has come up with a novel idea for a spot of cross channel marketing activity.  Continue Reading

• Column: Cisco's mobile predictions don't entirely add up

  Billy MacInnes takes a closer look at Cisco's latest mobility statistics that appear to suggest mobile devices will soon outnumber people.  Continue Reading

• What gets IT pros in the mood for love?

  With Valentine's Day literally just around the corner, one's thoughts naturally turn to overpriced meals served by harassed staff in crowded restaurants or, depending on circumstance, a bottle of wine and a Richard Curtis DVD.  Continue Reading

• Column: Get ready for the Big IPV6 Society

  Have you ever fallen victim to short keys? You know the type of thing. With one movement you highlight everything. With the next you delete it all.  Continue Reading