Router and networking behemoth Cisco today announced its plans to acquire the privately-held Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular, inexpensive little Flip Video cameras. Cisco calls the reported $590 million acquisition “key to Cisco’s strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking.” [...]

Cisco and Apple today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the “iPhone” trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the “iPhone” trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any pending actions regarding the trademark. [...]

Cisco has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from using the company’s registered iPhone trademark. Earlier in the week, Apple announced their iPhone – a new device that combines a state-of-the-art mobile phone, a widescreen [...]