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...women and minorities in the field of high technology ever since she immigrated from El Salvador in 1982. She terms the small slights that alienate women like her--the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions--microinequities. She worked mightily to rise to director of European strategy at Cisco Systems but recently abandoned that role to become director of global gender diversity. Through a program called Girls Get IT, Cisco is trying to rally interest in technology careers among girls by funding workshops at urban schools and in poorer countries around the world. "It's fantastic," Allwood says. "Cisco...
...there. In the not too distant future, people will turn to [portable] devices for their computing needs, to access information and to communicate. I think we're going to lead that continued revolution. Ten years from now, I think we will have every opportunity to be like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and the great companies in Silicon Valley...
When operations manager Spiros Stefanou learns that a flight coming into Athens International Airport is due in early, he picks up his mobile phone and alerts baggage handlers to scramble a crew quickly. Nothing unusual about that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network. Instead, it wirelessly taps into the airport's internal network, which transmits the call for free anywhere in the 16-sq-km airport. "It bypasses any mobile or telecom network,'' says Fotis Karonis, the airport's director of information technology and telecommunications...
...value of ideas being protected, so the entrepreneur with a technological breakthrough reaps the rewards--not "six guys down the street who've stolen it," says Jim Hemerling, senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. In the past two years, companies from General Motors to Sony to Cisco have complained about intellectual-property theft. China's State Intellectual Property Office invalidated Pfizer's patent protection on Viagra last summer, arguing that the drug failed to fulfill the novelty requirement under Chinese law. Like many other multinationals, Pfizer is now cautious about expanding its R&D work in China...
...foreign companies with research facilities in China, a handful are doing substantive research. About a month before Microsoft made a splash with plans to expand its 170-person Beijing research center by 20%, France Telecom announced last June that it would open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool of skilled computer scientists and basic-science researchers. China offers something else too: an entry...