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Microsoft bundles new Skype for Business tools into Office 365
Enterprises can now get their hands on a brand new, top-tier package of Office 365. Called the Office 365 E5 plan, it costs $35 per user per month, or $420 for a full year. The new package will eventually replace the existing E4 plan, which will be retired on June 30 next year. The existing ...
Google Cloud suffers new outage in Europe
Google suffered a major cloud outage last week thanks to an errant peering advertisement by an unnamed European network carrier that caused its europe-west1 region to slip off the grid for about 70 minutes. According to Google’s blog post on the matter, the network carrier mistakenly added a new peering link to Google that suggested ...
Microsoft declares war on Potentially Unwanted Applications in the enterprise
Microsoft has decided it’s time to put its foot down and do something about all of those annoying “potentially unwanted applications” (PUAs) that clog up Windows machines on corporate networks. To that end, Redmond is now offering a new ‘PUA protection’ feature in its System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) and Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) tools. ...
Microsoft to finally make it in mobile… in 2019
Microsoft’s refusal to give up in mobile might soon pay off, if a new report from research outfit Strategy Analytics Inc. is to be believed. The market research firm claims the Redmond will become the fastest-growing maker of tablet operating systems by 2019 as Windows 10 adoption increases. Strategy Analytics reckons Microsoft will boost its ...
Tor launches crowdfunding campaign to expand its hidden services
The Tor Project, which maintains the private communications network Tor, has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign aimed at reducing its dependency on the U.S. government for funding. The anonymizing network, which is popular with all manner of journalists, activists, whistleblowers, criminals and privacy-conscious netizens, reportedly gets around 90 percent of its funding directly from the ...
Stealthy Big Data storage startup Iguaz.io lands $15M
A mysterious Israeli-based Big Data startup has just announced $15 million in Series A funding, even though it’s yet to reveal exactly what kind of technology it’s building. Iguaz.io, which is still effectively in stealth, hinted at doing something about “rebuilding the framework for dealing with Big Data in a way that integrates information from ...
Indian researchers teach computers how to watch cricket
Researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, and Xerox Corp. have come up with a novel way to help computers understand human movement on video by studying cricket matches. Teaching computers to interpret human movements on video is extremely difficult, because whatever system is used needs to understand which frames represent ...
Mozilla insists its no longer dependent on Google for cash
The Mozilla Foundation has publicly boasted that it’s no longer dependent on Google for the bulk of its revenues, and that it hopes to make even more cash from its new search deals with companies like Yahoo! Inc., Yandex and Baidu Inc. For years, the maker of the Firefox browser and other open-source software generated ...
HP’s final quarter is one to forget
The two entities that once made Hewlett-Packard Co. have posted mixed results in their final earnings report together. The already-split enterprise posted combined revenues of $25.7 billion in its last quarter, slightly below analysts’ expectations and a nine percent drop from one year ago. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share of $0.93 were below Wall Street’s ...
Most businesses ‘lack visibility’ into the public cloud
Public cloud adoption is exploding, but a new industry survey reveals that many are struggling to see an immediate return on their investments due to a lack of visibility, monitoring and infrastructure control in their environments. ScienceLogic, Inc.‘s Trends in Global Cloud Adoption survey of more than 1,600 IT pros found that a massive 83 ...
