Cisco Systems monitoring camera and other products are seen on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. , Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Cisco Systems Inc. says its quarterly income dropped 19 percent but that recession-dampened orders are improving. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 weeks ago

Cisco Systems monitoring camera and other products are seen on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. , Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Cisco Systems Inc. says its quarterly income dropped 19 percent but that recession-dampened orders are improving.

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  1. Cisco's Chief Globalization Officer and Executive Vice President Wim Elfrink, left, talks to Bharti Airtel Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli before signing an agreement between the two companies in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. U.S based Cisco and India's Bharti Airtel today announced a strategic business alliance to create products and services for the small, medium and large enterprises. The alliance would create and sell in a phased manner a set of products and services including managed data services, hosted unified communications and connected branch services.
  2. Cisco's Chief Globalization Officer and Executive Vice President Wim Elfrink, left, and Bharti Airtel Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli shake hands after signing an agreement between the two companies in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. U.S based Cisco and India's Bharti Airtel today announced a strategic business alliance to create products and services for the small, medium and large enterprises. The alliance would create and sell in a phased manner a set of products and services including managed data services, hosted unified communications and connected branch services.
  3. Cisco's Chief Globalization Officer and Executive Vice President Wim Elfrink, left, and Bharti Airtel Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli, center, hold the copies of agreement signed between the two companies in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. U.S based Cisco and India's Bharti Airtel today announced a strategic business alliance to create products and services for the small, medium and large enterprises. The alliance would create and sell in a phased manner a set of products and services including managed data services, hosted unified communications and connected branch services.
  4. Cisco's Chief Globalization Officer and Executive Vice President Wim Elfrink speaks before signing an agreement with Bharti Airtel Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli unseen, between the two companies in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. U.S based Cisco and India's Bharti Airtel Tuesday announced a strategic business alliance to create products and services for the small, medium and large enterprises. The alliance would create and sell in a phased manner a set of products and services including managed data services, hosted unified communications and connected branch services.
  5. Cisco Headquarters in San Jose, CA.
  6. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: John T. Chambers (L), Chairman and CEO of Cisco, and Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan Motor and CEO and President of Renault, appear on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 24, 2009 in New York City. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) looks to gather prominent individuals in politics, business, science, academics and religion to discuss global issues such as climate change and peace in the Middle East. The event, founded by former president Bill Clinton after he left office, is held the same week as the General Assembly at the United Nations as most world leaders are in New York.
  7. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, appears on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 24, 2009 in New York City. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) looks to gather prominent individuals in politics, business, science, academics and religion to discuss global issues such as climate change and peace in the Middle East. The event, founded by former president Bill Clinton after he left office, is held the same week as the General Assembly at the United Nations as most world leaders are in New York.
  8. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, appears on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 24, 2009 in New York City. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) looks to gather prominent individuals in politics, business, science, academics and religion to discuss global issues such as climate change and peace in the Middle East. The event, founded by former president Bill Clinton after he left office, is held the same week as the General Assembly at the United Nations as most world leaders are in New York.
  9. Shoppers purchase electronic items during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  10. Shoppers purchase electronic items during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  11. Shoppers purchase electronic items during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  12. Shoppers purchase electronic items during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  13. Shoppers look for bargains during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  14. A worker stacks boxes as shoppers look for bargains during Black Friday sales at a Best Buy store in Glendale, California November 27, 2009. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves. Black Friday, the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, is often the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the retail industry's annual sales.
  15. Best Buy General Manager Shannon Crites (top) rallies his employees with a cheer shortly before opening their doors to shoppers on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Irving, Texas November 27, 2009.
  16. Eric Hidrogo (L) and Nicole Hernandez (2nd L) wait in line with other shoppers outside of a Best Buy store as they wait for it to open on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Irving, Texas November 27, 2009.

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