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Subject: Cisco's Flip a Flop, company flips it off...

Written By: LyricBoy on 04/12/11 at 5:30 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/technology/13flip.html

Seems that the fortunes of the once-heralded Flip video camera have faltered.

Today its maker, Cisco, flipped it the bird.    :o

Subject: Re: Cisco's Flip a Flop, company flips it off...

Written By: Cory! on 04/12/11 at 11:40 pm

WOAH. That's really surprising. I thought those cameras we're doing really well. From the looks of that article Kodak and Sony must be doing better...which isn't necessarily a bad thing considering how bad Kodak's been doing.

Subject: Re: Cisco's Flip a Flop, company flips it off...

Written By: Foo Bar on 04/14/11 at 10:35 pm

CSCO has always had problems understanding what to do with consumer-grade gadgets, vs. enterprise-level gadgets.

As long as it's taking the writedown on its $590M acquisition of Pure Digital, Cisco should Open Source the Flip.

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