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France to ban American video conferencing services

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:15:15 GMT

France plans to phase out American videoconferencing services like Zoom and Teams by 2027, replacing them with its own Visio app.

Google Meet on Neat

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:50:16 GMT

Neat announce that Google Meet is now natively supported on Neat devices, unleashing a wave of innovation by fusing Google's next-generation collaboration intelligence with our own AI-powered video hardware—for meetings that look sharper, sound smarter, and feel more natural.

UCaaS Microsoft Teams Phone Surpasses 26M Users Pioneers Growth

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 22:56:19 GMT

Microsoft Teams Phone has recently reached a significant milestone, surpassing 26 million Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) users. This represents a 30% increase since April 2024.

Telefónica Restructuring: Unions Discuss Job Cuts in Spain

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 23:02:27 GMT

Telefónica is reportedly refining its planned job cutbacks in Spain, aiming to reach an agreement with union representatives.

FCC Imposes New Requirements on VoIP Service Providers with Direct Access to Number Blocks, Seeks Comment on Additional Measures

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:02:27 GMT

The FCC continues to refine rules for interconnected VoIP service providers in an effort to stop spoofing and robocall services.

OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment that could exceed $10 billion

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:09:42 GMT

OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips.

Microsoft Sees Electricity Hindering AI Deployment

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:02:00 GMT

Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

Ericsson subsidiary Vonage fined £700,000 over emergency call outage

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:19:35 GMT

Vonage, owned by Swedish group Ericsson, has been fined £700,000 after some UK business customers could not connect to emergency calls for more than a week, Ofcom has said.

ZTE releases AI-Powered Video Conference Board, revolutionizing global meeting experiences

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:52:02 GMT

ZTE unveiled a videoconferencing board that integrates ultra-clear smart conference board, whiteboard collaboration board, flexible projection board, and super-large computer board, and enables video conferencing based on AI, bringing more convenient, intelligent, and ultimate remote communication experience to global users.

Senator Calls for FTC Investigation into Microsoft’s Use of Outdated RC4 Encryption and Kerberoasting Vulnerabilities

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:39:05 GMT

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Microsoft for what he terms “gross cybersecurity negligence,” accusing the tech giant of knowingly shipping its Windows operating system with a dangerously outdated form of encryption that has enabled devastating ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, including major healthcare systems.

SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal

Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:59:48 GMT

SpaceX said it will buy wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, the latest major deal crucial for 5G connectivity.

Zoom Has Biggest Rally in a Year After Strong Forecast

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:58:56 GMT

Zoom Communications Inc. shares soared after the company delivered a stronger-than-expected forecast, suggesting that customers are buying more of its expanded line of software products.

MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:58:21 GMT

Cloudflare is launching the first Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay network, running on every Cloudflare server in datacenters in 330+ cities.

I'm Still Not Over How Microsoft Destroyed Skype

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:58:05 GMT

[Opinion] Skype has been around for more than half of my life, and for a long time, to make a video call was to "Skype" someone. But now, Skype is officially dead and gone, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Global video conferencing market set to reach $21 bn by 2029

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:30:58 GMT

The global video conferencing market grew 5 percent in 2024 to reach $18 billion in revenue and is expected to grow to $21 billion by 2029, driven by AI, hybrid work, and growth in Asia.

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Sat, 9 Aug 2025 12:27:00 GMT

Encryption methods standardized by ETSI for radio communication may be easily cracked, even when employing recommended the end-to-end encryption algorithm.

Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:27:36 GMT

Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes sent the video titled “Restructuring the CSS Team: A Difficult Decision for Our Future” to staff informing them that 150 staff had been made redundant.

The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:08:04 GMT

EU law enforcement bodies could be capable of decrypting your private data by 2030. This is one of the ambitious goals the EU Commission presented in its Roadmap on June 24, 2025. A plan on how the bloc intends to ensure police officers' "lawful and effective" access to citizens' data.

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:29:29 GMT

Apple's executives are reportedly thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future.

Over 64M T-Mobile records leaked online, hackers claim

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 03:26:38 GMT

The unconfirmed dataset, supposedly consisting of details taken from America’s second-largest mobile carrier, T-Mobile, includes device IDs and phone numbers. Meanwhile, T-Mobile says that the data in the does not relate to T-Mobile or its customers.

Apple will end support for Intel Macs in 2026

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:13:09 GMT

Apple announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel. After that, major new versions of Apple’s desktop operating system will only run on Apple Silicon Macs.

AES Crypt 4.3 Released

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:28:09 GMT

AES Crypt 4.3 was released and now available on all supported platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. Some of the key enhancements in this release include performance improvements, user interface enhancements, security enhancements to the produced code, new support for Arch Linux, and published signature files to make it easier for users to verify authenticity of Linux and FreeBSD files.

NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:58:06 GMT

NVIDIA is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S.

Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:38:10 GMT

Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code.

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:20:00 GMT

One of the initial backers of infamous torrenting site The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström, has died after crashing his aircraft in bad weather. He took off in his Mooney M20 propeller plane from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, en route to Zürich in Switzerland, but local media reports that he crashed into a cabin on Slovenia's Velika Planina mountain, splitting the hut in two.

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:52:22 GMT

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data.

Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:53:45 GMT

Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data.

Elon Musk-led group proposes buying OpenAI for $97.4 billion

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:33:43 GMT

A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:05:55 GMT

Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

CISA, FBI urge Americans to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:02:16 GMT

U.S. government officials said that the China-backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon are still inside some of the networks of America’s largest phone and internet providers, weeks after the long-running hacking campaign first came to light.