Cisco unveils new collaboration tools for enterprise

Cisco boosts bid for Tandberg to $3.41 billion
After its initial bid got the cold shoulder, Cisco has upped its buyout offer for the video conferencing equipment maker.

Yahoo Messenger 10 waves bye to 'beta'
Yahoo Messenger 10 leaves beta, adding social networking and video chat improvements to Yahoo's general chat app offering.

What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?

Google Friend Connect adds profiles, ads
Web site publishers that use Google Friend Connect to add social-networking features to their sites can now allow users to set up profiles and serve targeted ads based on those profiles.

Cisco, EMC, and VMWare make alliance official
The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.