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• Timeline: RIM's very bad year

  You get the feeling that executives in Research in Motion will especially relish singing "Should old acquaintance be forgot" this year.

• 30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

  2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs and forced Cisco to scale back on its aggressive growth plans and tactics.

• Microsoft's latest Windows Phone move: Changes at the top

  Getting a read on how well <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone has been doing has been tricky in recent months, with each <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110311-windows-phones-252759.html">indication of momentum</a> seemingly offset with one or more <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/gartner-windows-phone-sales-plummet-while-and">negative market share or news reports</a>. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's memo sent within the company Monday and published publicly by Microsoft indicates Windows Phone 7 probably isn't living up to Microsoft's expectations.

• Private investment firm buys Blue Coat for $1.3B

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/wan-optimization-shifting-strategic-tactical">Blue Coat Systems</a> has agreed to be bought by a private equity firm for about $1.3 billion, which will buy out shareholders for a 48% premium over what the company's stock sold for yesterday.

• Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group

  Even though it completed the bulk of a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072011-cisco-job-cuts.html">major restructuring</a> earlier this year, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> continues to tweak its internal organizational structure.

• 7 hot storage startups to watch

  As the sheer amount of content on the Web has continued to increase exponentially, so too have the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/network-storage.html">storage</a> needs of large enterprises.

• Can you picture George Clooney as Steve Jobs on the big screen?

  UK publications <a href="http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/532274/george-clooney-fights-noah-wyle-for-steve-jobs-movie-role/1">Now</a> and <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/3944594/George-Clooney-to-play-late-Apple-boss.html">The Sun</a> have heated up the rumor mill over who will play the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/100511-apple-chairman-steve-jobs-dead-251656.html">late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs</a> in a Hollywood biopic on which filming is expected to start next year. At the top of the list? Heart throb George Clooney and fellow "ER" TV doctor Noah Wylie.

• VMware and Google on an acquisition frenzy in 2011

  While the world has been distracted by HP's baffling $10.2 billion purchase of Autonomy and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s surprising $9 billion buy of Skype, EMC/VMware and Google have been snapping up dozens of software companies throughout 2011.

• 'Lost' interview with Steve Jobs to screen next week

  A <a href="http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/">"lost" interview with the late Steve Jobs</a>, from the mid-1990s, will screen at 19 U.S. theaters for two days next week. Only 10 minutes of the original 69-minute conversation were ever aired.

• Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2011

  Job cuts in the US technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesn’t make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better.

• Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push

  Cisco today announced a former VMware executive will head up the newly formed Cisco Security Group at Cisco, which combines two formerly separate units into one security-focused group.

• Brocade on the block again?

  If at first you don't succeed ...

• Apple flooded with more than 1 million memories of Steve Jobs

  Apple, which today is holding a company-wide memorial for Steve Jobs, says that it has received more than 1 million messages from those recalling the company co-founder and former CEO in the wake of his death at the age of 56.

• Apple sets iPhone, iPad records, but misses analyst targets

  Apple’s stock price fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday, after the company revealed fourth quarter results that didn't quite meet Wall Street's expectations despite setting Apple records.

• Jobs died due to respiratory arrest, cancer

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> co-founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs died last week from respiratory arrest related a recurrence of pancreatic cancer that spread to other organs, according to a copy of his death certificate made public yesterday.