Cisco's $2.96 billion purchase of Norwegian tech giant Tandberg "expands its lineup of videoconferencing products." Sorry to bring that development to staffers worldwide who will have to set up even more of those dog-and-pony shows. Tandberg's the world's largest maker of videoconferencing equipment.

Above, a video story about one of George W. Bush's rehearsals for a 2007 videoconference. Unfortunately, I can't locate the infamous October 2005 staged videoconference starring one of the Defense Department's flacks as a phony grunt lobbing a carefully rehearsed softball question to the president from Iraq — the identity of the flack was a fact that I revealed back then.