Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng reports that last week's big story about Duke University's Wi-Fi network being destroyed by iPhones was... well... wrong.

"Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue," the University announced on Friday. "Cisco has provided a fix that has been applied to Duke's network and there have been no recurrences of the problem since."

"There is a certain irony here, as Cisco and Apple were forced to work together to investigate this problem after the huge wave of publicity it generated," writes Techworld's Tom Jowitt. "The two companies were previously at loggerheads over the use of the name iPhone, which Cisco claimed as its own trademark. The duo settled their differences in February this year, and Cisco dropped its infringement lawsuit."

And InformationWeek's Richard Martin sees this as a lesson for journalists everywhere. "What's interesting here ... is that the story spread so quickly and got so much attention, considering it was essentially a series of minor network outages," Martin writes. "The reason? It was the iPhone, of course, and anything iPhone-related - particularly related in a potentially negative way - is big news in the tech-business world."

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