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Mary Ann Azevedo
Mary Ann Azevedo is an award-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley.

Kirsten Chiala
Kirsten Chiala is a content producer for The Network, and is based in Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth Corcoran
Elizabeth Corcoran covers education and technology. She was the Silicon Valley bureau chief at Forbes.

Amy Cortese
Amy Cortese is an award-winning journalist and the author of Locavesting (Wiley, 2011)

Laurence Cruz
Laurence Cruz is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

Jason Deign
Jason Deign is a Barcelona-based business writer, journalist and author.

Kerry Doyle
Kerry Doyle has covered business and technology issues for over a decade.

Kristi Essick
Kristi Essick has covered technology for the Wall Street Journal and The Industry Standard.

Anne Field
Anne Field has covered entrepreneurship and small business for the New York Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Lee Gomes
Lee Gomes has spent nearly two decades writing about technology, much of the time for the Wall Street Journal.

Scott Gurvey
Scott Gurvey was the New York bureau chief of the Nightly Business Report on PBS.

Melissa Jun Rowley
Melissa Jun Rowley is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, and content strategist with a passion for all things tied to social innovation.

Kevin Maney
Kevin Maney is an author, journalist and content consultant.

Julie Pitta
Julie Pitta was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine covering the high-tech and biotech industries.

Eric Rabkin
Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

David Rogers
David Rogers teaches brands, marketing and digital strategy at Columbia Business School.

Joanne Taaffe
Joanne has contributed to science and economics titles including France's Science & Vie, and Science & Vie Junior.

Sue Tabbitt
Sue Tabbitt is a technology journalist who covers IT and telecommunications.

Wendy Tanaka
Wendy Tanaka is a former editor at The Network and technology editor at Forbes.

Steve Wildstrom
Steve Wildstrom is a veteran technology journalist who wrote the Technology & You column at BusinessWeek.

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05/19/2013

Manufacturing Snapshot: Does Social Media Matter?

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Manufacturing Snapshot: Does Social Media Matter?

05/19/2013 By Kerry Doyle

Social media continues to play a pivotal role in day-to-day commerce. It offers shoppers valuable resources, from product evaluations and opinions to advice and trends to watch, but what about social media's influence in the manufacturing sector, ... Continue Reading

Tags: Social Media, Manufacturing

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05/16/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 13-17

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 13-17

05/16/2013

1.) Behind the Scenes of a MOOC Don't know what a MOOC is? You're about to find out. We take a look at the technology and collaboration needed to create the new breed of open, online classes in higher education. 2.) ... Continue Reading

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05/13/2013

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

05/13/2013 By Amy Cortese

As editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine for most of the 21st century, Chris Anderson has had a front row seat to the technological changes that continue to transform our world. He's explored some of these changes in his books, The Long Tail, about ... Continue Reading

Tags: Manufacturing, Network Trailblazers

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05/09/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 6-10th

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 6-10th

05/09/2013

1.)Leadership@Cisco: John Chambers Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers , shares thoughts about his family, his love of adventure, and how technology will change our lives in the future. 2.)Sports Analytics Goes High School: ... Continue Reading

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05/07/2013

Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

By Kristi Essick
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Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

05/07/2013 By Kristi Essick

Many consumers today use personal cloud services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, and iCloud. The lure of these services is clear: they allow users to store files such as documents, notes, and photos on a central server – ... Continue Reading

Tags: Cloud, Security

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05/05/2013

Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

By Kevin Maney
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Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

05/05/2013 By Kevin Maney

National Basketball Association teams have long wielded big budgets for data analytics that can break down tendencies of rival teams. But this year, a disruptively cheap web-based version of the technology helped the high school boys on the Fort ... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment, Mobility, Innovation

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05/03/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 29-May 3

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 29-May 3

05/03/2013

Healthcare and The Cloud Can’t quite remember everything about your medical history? A former RN says the cloud can help. Find out what else she says as we take a look at the benefits and challenges of cloud computing in ... Continue Reading

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04/30/2013

Healthcare and The Cloud

By Melissa Jun Rowley
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Healthcare and The Cloud

04/30/2013 By Melissa Jun Rowley

If ever there was an industry in need of higher quality for less money, it’s the healthcare sector. In addition to the demand to improve operational efficiency, healthcare service providers are increasingly facing competition, which is ... Continue Reading

Tags: Cloud, Healthcare

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04/28/2013

Mobility in Retail: How Technology Lets Consumers Track Products

By Joanne Taaffe
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Mobility in Retail: How Technology Lets Consumers Track Products

04/28/2013 By Joanne Taaffe

In mid-January European consumers were shocked to discover that many of their favorite frozen beef products had been made using horsemeat. Over the following weeks Europe’s press unfolded the story of a complex pan-European purchasing and ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Retail

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04/23/2013

Tech Challenge 2013: The Next Generation Of Engineers Is Here...And They're Having Fun!

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Tech Challenge 2013: The Next Generation Of Engineers Is Here...And They're Having Fun!

04/23/2013

The Tech Challenge is designed to inspire the next generation of Silicon Valley innovators and provide students, in grades 5 through 12, with hands-on science and engineering projects. Their goal: solving real world problems. In ... Continue Reading

Tags: CSR, Cisco Culture

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04/22/2013

Mobility Set to Transform Retail Industry

By Anne Field
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Mobility Set to Transform Retail Industry

04/22/2013 By Anne Field

A bevy of tech startups are helping retailers use mobile devices to change the way offline stores interact with customers—and make them a lot smarter, too. "Mobility is set to trigger a business transformation across retail,” ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Retail

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04/21/2013

3D On the Small Screen: Advertising Gets a New Dimension

By Jason Deign
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3D On the Small Screen: Advertising Gets a New Dimension

04/21/2013 By Jason Deign

You could call it a struggle between different dimensions. Today's video devices, from Apple iPads to flat-screen TVs, are slimmer than ever before; the upcoming Sony Xperia Tablet Z , for example, is just 0.26 inches (6.6 millimeters) ... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment, Video

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04/19/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 15-19

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 15-19

04/19/2013

SDN, Cloud, Big Data: A Conversation with Lew Tucker Cisco’s VP/CTO of Cloud Computing shared his views on OpenStack, SDN and the Application Ecosystem before speaking at this week’s OpenStack Summit. Big Data ... Continue Reading

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04/16/2013

GenerationNow@Cisco: An Engineer's Take on What Cisco Makes Possible

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GenerationNow@Cisco: An Engineer's Take on What Cisco Makes Possible

04/16/2013

Turning five years old is legendary. You're walking and talking and smiling and exploring. You've got an imagination that laughs at the thought of rules and boundaries. And look at that face. Five-year-olds have the cutest faces. ... Continue Reading

Tags: Cisco Culture, Innovation

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04/14/2013

Big Data Analytics: You Have The Right To Remain Private. Or Do You?

By Kerry Doyle
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Big Data Analytics: You Have The Right To Remain Private. Or Do You?

04/14/2013 By Kerry Doyle

Increasing numbers of companies are employing Predictive Analytics technology to better understand their customers, and then capitalize on that information. Organizations want to use this wealth of customer data to create 360-degree portraits of ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Security, Retail

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04/11/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 8-12

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 8-12

04/11/2013

Leadership@Cisco: Chris Dedicoat Chris Dedicoat, Cisco's president of EMEAR, talks about what makes a great leader. See what Dedicoat thinks about the future of technology, business and education.   ... Continue Reading

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04/10/2013

Coming, Ready or Not: Cell Phones as Sensors

By Laurence Cruz
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Coming, Ready or Not: Cell Phones as Sensors

04/10/2013 By Laurence Cruz

In the Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Chiapas state, an interesting experiment is unfolding that could be an early forerunner of a future trend—the use of cell phones as sensors. Under the city's "Vigilante Taxi Driver" program, cab ... Continue Reading

Tags: Government, Mobility, Security, Smart and Connected Communities, Government, Internet of Everything

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04/04/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 1-5

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 1-5

04/04/2013

Happy Friday to you! This week on the Network: It’s a big weekend for basketball fans as the Final Four teams take to the court. Hear from Cisco CEO John Chambers about how fans at the Georgia Dome will be more connected than ever ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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04/01/2013

Mobile Technology for Mobile Education

By Eric Rabkin
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Mobile Technology for Mobile Education

04/01/2013 By Eric Rabkin

As Air Force bases go, aircraft carriers are mobile.  In the 1980s, civilian employees of the University of Maryland University College, which now offers many online courses, served tours on U.S. aircraft carriers, under contract to the ... Continue Reading

Tags: Education, Mobility

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04/01/2013

Health Check: Technology in Healthcare

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Health Check: Technology in Healthcare

04/01/2013

By Randy Pond A doctor in California diagnosing a patient in Africa. An Ohio woman on vacation accessing her medical records from an emergency room in London.  A patient's vital signs being monitored remotely from a hospital ... Continue Reading

Tags: Healthcare, Randy Pond

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