Tech Roundup: Cisco Lobbies the Government, Milpitas Companies Handed Honors, and More

The Milpitas-based LSI Corporation was handed a big honor this past week when Thomson Reuters named the company one of 2011’s “Top 100 Global Innovators.” The Reuters program analyzes patent data and related metrics to scientifically identify the most influential companies worldwide based on the impact their innovations have had on the industry. Reuters said its program “evaluates innovation performance at companies that invent on a significant scale, work on developments that are acknowledged as innovative by others around the world, and whose inventions are globally protected due to their importance.”

According to Business Week, a recently-released disclosure report by Cisco indicates the company spent a whopping $850,000 in Q3 this year on lobbying the federal government on issues such as corporate taxes. That’s up from $540,000 the previous quarter, and $470,000 in the same period last year. One of the issues it lobbied on was that of corporate taxes on products sold abroad. Cisco said it would be happy to “bring that money back to the U.S.,” but that if it did, the company would be hit with a roughly 35 percent tax, which drastically reduces profits. Other lobby issues included cybersecurity, the patent system, and use of the wireless spectrum. Wireless companies have been seeking access to more airwaves to offer more wireless services, and Cisco stands to benefit in selling networking equipment to run those services.

“EDN Magazine” recently named Milpitas-based Intersil Corporation’s ISL78228 dual 800mA 2.25MHz synchronous buck regulator for automotive applications one of its “Hot 100 Products of the Year.” The 2011 EDN “Hot 100” highlights the electronics industry's most significant products of the year based on innovation, significance, usefulness and popularity. This marks the second year in a row that one of Intersil’s products has made the list. The magazine has been putting together the list since 1993.

Milpitas-based Dialogic Inc., a provider of communications technologies that power advanced networks, announced this week that its Dialogic(R) PowerMedia(TM) Host Media Processing Software Release 4.1LIN (PowerMedia HMP 4.1) product was named a winner in the tenth annual Mobile Star Awards, hosted by mobile technology news portal MobileVillage.com. The awards pit new mobile apps and companies against established competitors, and MobileVillage subscribers vote for the winners. Selected as a “Superstar” in the Operator Solutions: Media Delivery category, PowerMedia HMP 4.1 enables enterprise and service provider customers to build innovative and cost-effective voice and video solutions. Dialogic also recently launched PowerMedia HMP 5.0, which has the ability to scale up to 5,000 simultaneous SIP connections or 1,500 voice sessions, and which provides for HD voice and video play/record, conferencing, multimedia streaming, transcoding, automated interactive audio and video solutions (IVR and IVVR), and high-end, live interaction applications, such as contact centers and video portals.