So long, Cius, we hardly knew you-- Cisco stops spending on the Cius tablet and decides to leverage on other tablets with Jabber and own software deployments instead.
SVP of Telepresence Technology OJ Winge says "Cisco will no longer invest in the Cisco Cius tablet form factor, and no further enhancements will be made to the current Cius endpoint beyond what’s available today. However, as we evaluate the market further, we will continue to offer Cius in a limited fashion to customers with specific needs or use cases."
The first Cisco foray in tablet space, the Cius is an enterprise-only tablet on sale through channel partners. Launched back in 2010, it is pricey ($750), runs on Android and has a 7" display. A fairly unremarkable (if not entirely forgettable) device, in other words.
Either way, here's for another dead Cisco hardware offering...
Initially exclusive to the Galaxy S3 (but will also launch on PC and other Samsung devices soon enough), Music Hub offers streaming, radio stations, cloud-based music storage and a music store, with a catalog of 19m songs courtesy of digital content technology provider 7digital.
As VP Rob Csonger says "Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point."
The Chinese vendor is better known as the 2nd biggest PC vendor in the world... or 3rd biggest, depending on which analyst reports you refer to.
Currently in free beta in S. Korea and the US, a global LG Cloud rollout should start from 2013. The company gives no details on pricing, but the service is heavily geared towards selling LG devices-- LG Smart TV and smartphone customers will get 6 months of 50GB of storage for free.
