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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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AT&T and NTT, two of the biggest carriers in the world, have joined the move to Microsoft’s killer app, Operator Connect, as a way of delivering voice calls for enterprises.
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Europe’s Colt and Africa’s Liquid Intelligent Technologies have become the latest carriers to speed the move away from the conventional telephone network.
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Telstra has partnered with BlueVoyant to launch Telstra Cyber Detection and Response – Endpoint.
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The industry you love is moving into the clouds, as it says goodbye to traditional infrastructure – just like the IT industry before it, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Verizon's enterprise customers can now tap an on-premise, private edge compute solution that enables the ultra-low latency needed to deploy real-time applications.
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Microsoft has named Indian multi-national HCL Technologies as the launch partner for its Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services.
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Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft have all broken their existing records for quarterly revenues in their latest financial results.
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Google, Oracle and IBM are likely to compete with both Amazon and Microsoft for a new multibillion dollar cloud contract that the Pentagon will be awarding.
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Microsoft has launched a new data centre region in Arizona, consisting of three facilities to support redundancy in the cloud services being delivered.
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Amdocs has extended its collaboration with Microsoft, widening the availability of its portfolio on Microsoft Azure and the Azure for Operators initiative.
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Microsoft has won planning approval to build a new data centre campus near Chicago, but it still has to finalise the power requirements.
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Colt has recruited Google Cloud’s Jaya Deshmukh as its new executive VP of strategy and transformation, running its newly announced three-year strategy.
