Government privacy requirements for mobile Office apps and Windows 10 Enterprise not yet achieved
The mobile apps for Microsoft Office and Windows 10 Enterprise do not yet meet the privacy requirements set by the central government. This is evident from a privacy impact assessment by Privacy Company, commissioned by the Strategic Supplier Management Microsoft Rijk (SLM Rijk).
The central governm... Read more
New text-to-speech engine from AWS sounds like newsreader
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a number of new neural text-to-speech models. One of those models has a style that has to imitate the way the newsreader sounds.
AWS states that speech quality is important, but that more can be done to make a synthetic voice sound more realistic, says TechCrun... Read more
Microsoft stops in summer 2021 with Skype for Business Online
Microsoft will stop using Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021. After that, users can use Teams for their business calls. New Office 365 customers will be put on Teams from September 1st this year, and will no longer be able to select the old service as an option.
Microsoft has been saying sin... Read more
Google introduces business tools for hybrid and multi-cloud
On Tuesday, Google announced a series of tools for organizations that apply a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. A beta version of a new service for migrating virtual machines from Microsoft Azure is also part of this.
Google is also expanding its network portfolio for companies that are modernising ... Read more
Project management start-up Monday.com gets investment of 150 million dollars
The Israeli startup Monday.com has received an investment of 150 million dollars in a financing round led by Sapphire Ventures. No fewer than 80,000 organisations now use the company's project management service.
In addition to Sapphire Ventures, Hamilton Lane, HarbourVest Partners, ION Crossover Pa... Read more
Kaspersky measures double number of fake PC cleaners in research
Researchers from cybersecurity company Kaspersky have discovered that the number of cases of so-called 'hoax system cleaners' has doubled over the past year, according to the company to Techzine. In the first half of this year, 1,456,219 PC users worldwide, including the Dutch and Belgians, were aff... Read more
Data over 100 million people stolen from large hack American bank
The American bank Capital One has been the victim of a large-scale hack. 33-year-old software engineer Paige Thompson stole personal data from about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. It's unknown why she attacked the bank.
Thompson carried out her attack between 12 March and 17 July, wr... Read more
Microsoft introduces uniform search engine for code examples
Microsoft has added a whole new experience especially for developers on docs.microsoft.com. It is a uniform search engine for examples of code.
With the new search engine, Microsoft is trying to make it easier for developers to discover relevant examples of code, no matter what Microsoft product or ... Read more
After cloud computing, the market for cloud recycling is now emerging
More and more companies are exchanging their own data centres and devices for the cloud. However, equipment for large data centres has a short lifespan, creating an entirely new market. The market of cloud-recycling.
Among other things, cloud servers have a very short lifespan, according to experts ... Read more
Google researchers reveal security threats to iOS
Two members of Project Zero, Google's security team, have published details and demo code for five of the six "interactionless" security holes in iOS.
Weaknesses can be exploited via the iMessage app on iPhones. The six security holes were also fixed in iOS 12.4 on 22 July. Details about one of the ... Read more