CNET News Daily Podcast: Cisco keeps buying expensive things
Cisco has announced more than $6 billion worth of acquisitions this month. Its latest gives the tech giant some extra security clout. This story and more on today's podcast.
Cisco Systems has pledged to spend more than $6 billion on acquisitions this month, the latest of which comes in at a cool $183 million for Web-based security software company ScanSafe.
We also talk about the Apple tablet everyone keeps spreading rumors about, a computer Trojan that's masquerading as an e-mail from Facebook, and a new printing technology from Xerox that prints electronic circuitry on all sorts of things including fabric. Just think about what that's going to do to the T-shirt industry...
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Today's stories:
Cisco to buy cloud security firm for $183 million
More evidence of Apple's nonexistent tablet surfaces
NASA's Ares I-X test flight delayed by weather
Fake Facebook e-mail contains Trojan
Google Voice now (kinda) works with your number
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic