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The Covid-19 pandemic turbocharged digitisation across industries, such as transport, healthcare, energy and education, and now technology company Cisco is now working on optimising the hybrid working system. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Technology firm Cisco is helping countries like South Africa plug the digital skills gap

It aims to upskill 3 million Africans in the digital and cybersecurity space

Holographic technology is a virtual 3D render using beams of light, of individuals that are alive or from the past that you can see or interact with to manipulate images, maps and charts.

Cisco Hologram will power the future of work

Webex Hologram is Cisco’s hybrid work collaboration tool that uses reality headsets to combine meeting functionality with 3D holograms

‘Toxic, hazardous’ dust harming preschool children in Kuils River

Residents say the findings proves their concerns about pollution ‘are real’

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Biden said the Colonial fuel pipeline that was shuttered by a ransomware attack last week is fully operational again, but asked Americans for patience and warned gas stations against price-gouging. Photographer: T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The White House opens a new era of cybersecurity

South Africa, too, is vulnerable to cyber attacks and needs to take steps to secure its digital futur

Children at an exposition about robotics and artificial intelligence. Companies that don’t keep pace with change will have problems hiring millennials. (Philippe Clèment)

Millennials’ wants will change work

The new generation will be looking at speed, agility and user-friendly tools — and the option to work from a coffee shop

Cisco intends 15% workforce cut and sale of factory

Cisco Systems plans to cut 15% of its staff and sell a set-top box factory as part of a plan to cut annual expenses by $1-billion.

Tablets, video to drive mobile data growth

Africa and the Middle East are set to contribute 20% of total global mobile data traffic by 2015, according to a new mobile data forecast from Cisco.

Yahoo! delays meeting to avoid showdown

The internet company Yahoo! has postponed its annual meeting as it grapples with the prospect of a shareholder rebellion in which as many as 30 candidates may try their luck in…

UN launches poverty monitoring site with Google

The United Nations launched a new website powered by Google and network equipment maker Cisco on Thursday that will show how and where the world is succeeding or failing in…

‘A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’

Online video-delivery service Joost, now boasting more than 3 000 hours of content, has finally gone live at the beginning of this month and, to date, two million users have…

Internet telephony pioneers stumble

In spite of its global popularity, internet telephony (voice-over-internet protocol, or VoIP), which is almost free for users, has not become a gold mine for its pioneers such as…