Cisco has announced today that they are killing off the mildly successful, consumer-oriented Flip video camera line and eliminating 550 related jobs. Once the darling of the blogosphere and often given responsibility for jump-starting the handheld video market, Flip’s camera hasn’t kept pace with advancing video-equipped smartphones like Apple’s iPhone.

I think that everyone knows the networking industry is tough, but who would believe that a company like Linksys might move to the more profitable phone sex market to improve their bottom line? A misprinted toll-free number on a product from Linksys led to a sex-talk chat line, promising “nasty girls” for just $2.99 a minute. Nice… and Happy Holidays.
~geek