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Ushering in a new era of social impact in India: Mumbai joins Cisco’s 40 Communities initiative
23 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Brian Tippens Ushering in a new era of social impact in India: Mumbai joins Cisco’s 40 Communities initiative 4 min read Cisco announced Mumbai as the seco
Four years in: Lessons from Cisco Foundation’s climate resilience grants
22 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Alex Wilkins Four years in: Lessons from Cisco Foundation’s climate resilience grants 4 min read In 2021, the Cisco Foundation made a commitment to deploy $100 m
Making sure AI becomes the global equalizer — and not the great divider
18 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Guy Diedrich, Ph.D Making sure AI becomes the global equalizer — and not the great divider 4 min read Cisco’s Digital Impact Office has partnered with the Organi
8th Global Partner Innovation Challenge: Celebrating this year’s Partnering for Purpose winners
15 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Brian Tippens 8th Global Partner Innovation Challenge: Celebrating this year’s Partnering for Purpose winners 2 min read The 8th Global Partner Innovation
Introducing our FY25 Cisco Foundation Impact Report
15 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Brian Tippens Charu Adesnik Introducing our FY25 Cisco Foundation Impact Report 2 min read Since 1997, the Cisco Foundation has positively impacted more tha
OECD-Cisco research finds stark geographical and generational divides in AI uptake and digital well-being
04 Dec 2025
OECD-Cisco research finds stark geographical and generational divides in AI uptake and digital well-being More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Fostering connection across Latin America with Cisco Networking Academy
04 Dec 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Rebeca De La Vega Fostering connection across Latin America with Cisco Networking Academy 2 min read Discover how Cisco Networking Academy is accelerating digita
Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Cisco Announce Multi-year Partnership Making Cisco an Official Partner of the World's Most Famous Arena
03 Dec 2025
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. announced today a new, multi-year partnership with Cisco, naming the worldwide leader in networking and security An Official Partner of Madison Square Garden.
Honoring service and building futures: Celebrating Veterans Day and Remembrance Day
28 Nov 2025
OUR CORPORATE PURPOSE Scott Sprinkle Honoring service and building futures: Celebrating Veterans Day and Remembrance Day 3 min read At Cisco, our military veteran team members, along
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
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.
