Odido integrates Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile for business clients
Odido will be the first Dutch telecom provider to offer Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile. This will allow business customers to call and have online meetings with a single number via the mobile network and Microsoft Teams.
According to Odido, the new solution, actually a combined platform, is optimi... Read more
Cisco: ‘3% of companies fully prepared for cyber attack’
Most companies globally are still not fully maturely prepared for cyber incidents.
That's according to research by Cisco. Companies are still major targets of cyber attacks, such as phishing, ransomware, supply chain and social engineering attacks. Nearly three-quarters of companies expect to be... Read more
HPE gives Aruba Central more GenAI features with new LLMs
HPE is integrating several self-developed LLMs into its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform to make network environments running on it easier to manage. These LLMs not only provide the company's own technical data but also discover proprietary and personal data.
In particular, the tech giants ... Read more
Canonical offers two addtional years of support for Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
Canonical, the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu, will support the free and paid Ubuntu Pro LTS version two years longer than the standard 10 years of support. This is possible through the new paid Ubuntu Pro service Legacy Support. The service will be available starting with version Ubu... Read more
Amazon Connect gets new AI features for contact centers
AWS' contact center suite, Amazon Connect, recently received several new updates with AI functionality. These include support for third-party applications, GenAI features for Amazon Connect Contact Lens and no-code features for Amazon Connect Chat.
Amazon Connect also gets support for third-part... Read more
Canva strengthens position against Adobe with purchase of Affinity
Canva recently strengthened its competitive position against Adobe by acquiring the British creative software suite Affinity. According to Canva, the acquisition should be the final piece of its portfolio puzzle.
With the acquisition of Affinity—and basically the entire underlying British comp... Read more
StrelaStealer malware steals login credentials in Europe and U.S.
A new StrelaStealer malware campaign has affected more than 100 companies and organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Hackers are now also using ZIP files to spread the malware payload, Palo Alto Networks Unit42 concludes.
The StrelaStealer malware spread particularly quickly in November 2023, as ... Read more
Microsoft scoops up Inflection AI, will pay €600 million
Microsoft took over much of the staff and licenses of AI startup Inflection AI last week. In compensation, the tech giant is now paying $650 million (€601 million).
Microsoft recently announced that it had recruited two out of three Inflection AI's founders, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonya... Read more
Second preview Android 15 offers features for satellite communications
The second preview of Android 15 for developers offers new features that may come in the final version. Among others, connectivity for satellite networks, image features, security and privacy, and more flexibility for different form factors are coming into the operating system.
One of the notabl... Read more
OpenAI may launch successor to GPT-4 by the middle of this year
OpenAI may be launching the successor to GPT-4 by the middle of this year. Whether this will be the long-awaited GPT-5 or perhaps an improved version of GPT-4.5 Turbo remains to be seen.
The successor to OpenAI's GPT-4 LLM -the engine behind ChatGPT- will be presented mid-year. This reports Busi... Read more