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Meta is not done with the metaverse after it unveiled a new AI model designed to control the behaviour of digital agents in virtual experiences.
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Microsoft has revealed plans to extend its global data centre footprint to Perth, Western Australia, with an Azure Extended Zone set to launch by mid-2025.
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In the latest twist in Elon Musk’s existential legal battle with OpenAI, lawyers for the Tesla billionaire have filed an injunction aimed at preventing OpenAI and backer Microsoft from engaging in “anticompetitive conduct.”
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What does it truly mean to be a leader? Influencer, thought leader, and leading expert: Tags like these are applied throughout the tech industry, and beyond, almost like stickers, with businesses looking to wheel out what they perceive to be one of their true stars to showcase to the public.
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Microsoft has unveiled its first in-house developed DPU, or data processing unit, to equip its cloud servers with an extra performance boost.
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The European cloud market has grown more than threefold since the start of 2017, reaching €5.9 billion ($6.9 billion) in the third quarter of 2020.
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Users of Microsoft Teams will be able to make external calls on to the phone network thanks to a cloud solution that Colt is introducing.
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Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) saw a 30% increase in revenues in the third quarter, marking the fourth consecutive quarter in which the sector's year-on-year growth rate has increased.
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Microsoft subsidiary Affirmed Networks is to build a private 5G network for Inventec, a Taiwanese technology maker.
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Deutsche Telekom Group and Microsoft Corp have expanded their partnership that will help customers accelerate their cloud transformation journeys.
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Microsoft Corp has introduced Denmark as the location for its next sustainable data centre region, labelling it “the most significant investment in the company’s 30-year history in Denmark”.
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From competition to regulation, the tech giants are rarely out of the headlines, but their days of dominance could be numbered.
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West African communications services company MainOne has become the first Microsoft Azure Peering Services partner for West Africa.
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Analytics firm SAS has announced the opening of further SAS data centres in the UK and Germany optimised for Microsoft Azure.
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Telcos looking to leverage the global growth in gaming will soon be able to bundle Xbox packages into subscriptions.
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MEF has named the latest addition to its board; an AT&T exec with almost 20 years of experience across marketing operations, global technology planning, construction and engineering.
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MEF has welcomed a new member and advisory director to extend work on a new Universal SD-WAN Edge.
