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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 US Justice Department has begun an investigation into what it thinks may be anti-competitive actions by online platforms.
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For the carrier world, it’s an age-old conundrum: their love-hate relationship with over-the-top (OTT) players. These players present both a competitive threat and an opportunity in light of the fresh, innovative ideas they bring to market.
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AT&T has formed two separate cloud alliances – with Microsoft, covering cloud, AI and 5G, and with IBM, to modernise AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications.
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Etisalat Digital is partnering Microsoft in the UAE to provide government bodies, large enterprises and SMEs with digital solutions to support business transformation.
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Microsoft and Oracle have entered into a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.
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Microsoft and Sony have announced that they will jointly develop future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services.
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Pan-African internet and connectivity service provider SEACOM now offers direct connections into public cloud networks and data centres located in South Africa.
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South Korea’s SK Telecom and Microsoft are to work together on cloud, 5G and other new technologies, the companies have announced from Seoul.
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Operators believe that cloud gaming could represent 25% to 50% of 5G data traffic by 2022, based on the rapid progression of cloud gaming services in recent months.
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Just weeks after Adel Hamed took over as head of Telecom Egypt, Alan Burkitt-Gray asks the former head of wholesale about his plans to transform the company as part of the government’s digital initiative
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Nine leading technology companies – two Chinese and seven from the US – have set up a new group designed to improve performance of data centres.
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Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has appointed Dennis Keko Kahindi as chief executive officer (CEO) of Liquid Telecom Uganda.
