“Cisco has shown it isn’t afraid to compete with heavyweights like Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. Its $590 million acquisition Thursday of Pure Digital Technologies, which makes the popular Flip camcorder, is the latest sign that Cisco may be on a collision course with another tech giant: Apple,” Ben Worthen reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“With the addition of Pure Digital, Cisco now has several consumer products that target the living room: home networking systems it acquired from Linksys; cable boxes it got from Scientific-Atlanta; a wireless audio system that Cisco developed internally; and now Pure Digital’s Flip camcorder and related video software. Cisco has also said that it hopes to extend its high-end video conferencing technology into the home,” Worthen reports.
“It isn’t a big leap to see Cisco developing a home-media hub that cobbles these pieces together—some sort of device that allows people to upload and watch videos and listen to music throughout their homes. In fact, it looks like a next logical step,” Worthen reports.
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