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A Look Behind Cisco Crisis Response
26 Mar 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Erin Connor A Look Behind Cisco Crisis Response 3 min read Today, connectivity is no longer a form of aid; instead, it’s often necessary to even receive aid. Ben
How Cisco’s employees work together to give back
20 Mar 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Kelly Petrich How Cisco’s employees work together to give back 2 min read In fiscal 2024, for the fifth year in a row, more than 80% of employees participated in
Cisco to Deliver Secure AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA
19 Mar 2025
Cisco today unveiled an AI factory architecture with NVIDIA that puts security at its core.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Paves the Way with Agentic AI Collaboration
17 Mar 2025
Furthering Cisco’s agentic AI journey, Cisco expands its Collaboration portfolio to include the general availability of Webex AI Agent.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Capital Recognized as a Best Company in Monitor Daily 2025 for Financial Innovation
10 Mar 2025
This recognition underscores Cisco’s pioneering approach to payment solutions, sustainability initiatives and financial flexibility for businesses worldwide.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Capital Recognized as a Best Company in Monitor Daily 2025 for Financial Innovation
10 Mar 2025
This recognition underscores Cisco’s pioneering approach to payment solutions, sustainability initiatives and financial flexibility for businesses worldwide.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
