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According to the forecast made by Cisco within the framework of its Visual Networking Index global Internet traffic will grow four-fold by 2015 to 966 exabytes a year, or a zettabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) while the number of devices connected to the Internet will increase to 15 billion.

Suraj Shetty, Cisco's vice president of global service provider marketing, predicts that the average resident of the United States will have 7 networked devices in 2015 while in 2010 there was one connected device for every human on the planet.

Cisco is sued for supporting the Chinese government in prosecuting the members of the Falun Group, a religious group banned in China. The lawsuit alleges that members of the Falun Group found that Cisco knew that Internet technology it supplied to China would be used to crack down on the religious movement in the country.

According to new prognosis made by many analysts major tech companies will likely manage to keep up their sales and profit growth in 2011 while still economic troubles in the United States and euro zone debt issue could impact the results.

Intel Corp and other sector heavyweights are expected to keep expanding, albeit at a slower pace than in 2010. Meantime, heavy suppliers like Oracle Corp should enjoy some revival of corporate spending in the first half, while select consumer-centric companies should also do well.

According to many speculations in the media Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process. There is still no confirmation of the rumors because of the running IPO process.

Skype insiders say the company hopes for a valuation of $5 billion or so, and it is likely that Cisco would bide in this range.

Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer.
 

Cisco Systems Inc announced the launch of its own tablet computer device which, however, will be meant for business customers. This week it unveiled Cius which is a lightweight, 7-inch tablet based on Google Inc's Android operating system.

Cisco presents its Cius tablet which can work both on short-range WiFi and high-speed mobile wireless networks as a collaboration and communication device for enterprises.

People searching for an alternative to Facebook in the social networking market will soon be offered a new tool by Cisco. The company is planning to launch a new professional social networking site later in the year.

The U.S. government has identified flaws in equipment from four companies, including Cisco Systems Inc that hackers can exploit to break into corporate computer networks.

The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, said on its website on Wednesday that the warning applies to certain networking products from Cisco, Juniper Networks Inc, SonicWall Inc and SafeNet Inc.

Targeting to find Britain's best customer-focused smart businesses, Cisco and Real Business have launched the Customer Kings 2010 competition.

 So, subsequent to the results of 2010's awards, the greatest small businesses from every region of the UK will be educed. This year will add a category highlighting the very best in big business.