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With Teams video usage exploding across the world because of the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Microsoft has decided to accelerate the rollout of some much-needed features to help remote workers and schools hold better video calls. Microsoft has responded to calls from Microsoft Teams users who want to see more than just four participants on the […] More
Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet It shouldn’t be surprising that some people eventually read so many conspiracy theories on social media that they decide to attack, possibly over 20 times, what they see as a great intrusion and potential killing machine — the machine in question goes by the name of 5G. The crackpot theory that mobile […] More
Microsoft has revealed it took five hours to acknowledge lengthy disruptions affecting European customers in late March because the task of informing customers relied on a US-based incident manager, who was asleep at the time. Working from home: The future of business is remote From Fortune 500 enterprises to very small businesses, most every organization […] More
The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network across Australia has been testing the propagation of waves using spectrum in the 26GHz and 28GHz bands across distances of around 10 kilometres. “Our studies, and those of our technology partners provide high levels of confidence that the long-range use would allow NBN to have significant […] More
Image: Chorus New Zealand broadband wholesaler Chorus has said it now has 105,000 users on 1Gbps connections, which it will wholesale for NZ$60 per month. During its third quarter, the company added 18,000 extra 1Gbps plans, and said the new total represents 15% of its fibre connections. Across all fibre connections, it added 32,000 customers […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is offering more than $2 billion in financing and cash management programs for customers struggling with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. HPE, which counts its financial services unit as a key cog in its asset management and everything-as-a-service efforts, said the financing is designed to offer customers both large and […] More
Singapore has unveiled several initiatives aimed at helping the local population, particularly the elderly and underprivileged, stay online during the coronavirus outbreak. These include boosting existing schemes to provide more subsidies for students from low-income households who require digital access for home-based learning. The country’s ICT regulator, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), on Wednesday said […] More
Cisco has announced that it plans to acquire Fluidmesh Networks, makers of a wireless backhaul system for Industrial Internet of Things deployments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Featured stories Fluidmesh’s technology aims to provide zero loss of data transfer when assets such as trains and subways are moving at high speed. The […] More
