2021-07-20 13:03:00 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft Microsoft is starting to test the promised Teams chat integration with Windows 11 today, July 20, beginning with a subset of Windows Insider testers in the Dev channel. The new Teams chat button, which…
2021-07-20 09:00:19 www.zdnet.com DevOps practices have been widely embraced across IT organizations, according to Puppet's annual State of DevOps survey. However, the vast majority of IT teams are stuck in the middle stages of their DevOps evolution. And while…
2021-07-20 08:00:02 www.zdnet.com With so many people working remotely these days, it's more important than ever to have a powerful VPN installed on all of their devices, even on their home network. Lucky for you, not only is a…
2021-07-19 20:33:45 www.zdnet.com Image: Afterpay Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay has launched its new money and lifestyle app, Money by Afterpay, which will kick off with a pilot for its own Australian staff before a full go-live…
2021-07-19 13:59:26 www.zdnet.com CNET Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/ZDNet Apple on Monday released iOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.7, Apple Watch 7.6 and TVOS 14.7. The updates include several new features, security improvements and performance enhancements. You can download and install the update…
2021-07-19 08:00:03 www.zdnet.com You may be surprised to learn that the top tech companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook – hire just as many programmers who have learned their skills from bootcamps as they do college graduates.…
2021-07-19 09:22:17 www.zdnet.com With the purchase of Five9 for $14.7 billion, Zoom Video Communications is wading into a crowded contact center as a service market, but is betting that it can blend platforms and products like Zoom Phone to…
2021-07-19 06:44:39 www.zdnet.com Microsoft has released a public preview of the Teams Walkie Talkie app for iPhones to help frontline workers communicate. The Teams Walkie Talkie app for Android has been available in preview for over a year now and…
2021-07-19 05:00:03 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The University of Sydney has announced the development of a low-cost, sustainable, and readily available technology its researchers say can, for example, dim the screens of electronic devices for a fraction of the…
2021-07-19 02:21:46 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images To look at the headline numbers, Ericsson's second quarter was steady on a revenue front and saw decent earnings growth. For the quarter ended June 30, the Swedish telco equipment manufacturer reported revenue…
2021-07-18 21:46:10 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto French consultancy giant Capgemini has announced its intention to acquire Australian cloud services business Empired.The deal will set Capgemini back around AU$233 million, based on a AU$1.35 consideration of 160,301,595 ordinary shares on…
2021-07-18 08:00:02 www.zdnet.com Did you know that the Big Five tech companies – Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook – don't really care if you have a college degree? If you've been wanting to learn how to code, but…
2021-07-17 08:00:03 www.zdnet.com The internet has become such a dangerous place these days that experts are now suggesting users install VPNs on all of their devices, particularly on the machines they are using to work from home. The problem…
2021-07-16 09:00:00 www.zdnet.com Update (July 16, 2021): Artwork Archive told ZDNet it received notice a month or so ago about a single open S3 bucket -- a folder where it keeps publicly shareable reports. It addressed it, and after…
2021-07-16 09:48:00 www.zdnet.com Łukasz Langa will work full-time for a year to assist CPython maintainers and the Steering Council. Image: rootstocks/ Getty The Python Software Foundation has appointed a new Developer in Residence (DIR) to work full-time on the…
2021-07-16 12:07:43 www.zdnet.com Outsourcing key banking data and services to a small number of cloud service providers means that those providers have the power to dictate their own terms. Getty Images/iStockphoto Banks' growing reliance on cloud computing could…
2021-07-16 13:00:01 www.zdnet.com Google Google is celebrating World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing), which takes place on Saturday, July 17, by announcing 992 redesigned emojis. The new-look emojis are easier to see and understand exactly what it is…
2021-07-16 09:53:26 www.zdnet.com TBD is a platform for developers to create open-source financial applications with a focus on bitcoin. Joe Raedle / Staff / Getty Images News Square is launching yet another bitcoin-focused project with open-source development and decentralization…
2021-07-16 08:00:01 www.zdnet.com Tech jobs are hot, there is more hiring being done now than at any time since 2016. And now you can train at your own pace for a new career as a software engineer with one…
2021-07-16 02:04:41 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images After experiencing 83% year-on-year growth during the 20201 second quarter, Xiaomi has achieved 17% market share for smartphones, surpassing Apple, to take the number two spot in the global smartphone market, according to…
2021-07-15 16:04:00 www.zdnet.com (Image: Google) Google Google just released the third public beta of Android 12 , the upcoming operating system update that will soon power your Android phone and tablet. Android 12 is full of new features, and…
2021-07-15 22:11:57 www.zdnet.com Image: Valve Value has taken the wraps off a portable PC it has called Steam Deck, which is set to begin shipping in the US, Canada, EU, and UK in December. Ostensibly a handheld gaming device…
2021-07-15 18:00:03 www.zdnet.com Getty Images/iStockphoto Research is currently being undertaken by biotech company GenieUs together with the University of Sydney to examine how biosensors could potentially improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral…
2021-07-15 18:45:32 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft As company officials said a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft will be delivering Windows 10's second feature update for 2021, known as Windows 10 21H2, this fall. Today, July 15, Microsoft made available to…
2021-07-15 10:44:00 www.zdnet.com Microsoft took the wraps off of Windows 11 in a 45-minute online event, titled "What's next for Windows," held on June 24, 2021. A few days later, the company released the first preview of the new…
2021-07-15 11:57:00 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft Microsoft launched its Windows in the cloud offering -- Windows 365/Cloud PC -- on July 14. But officials declined to reveal one of the most important details of the coming new offering, the pricing,…
2021-07-15 12:00:02 www.zdnet.com Uber Freight Uber Freight on Wednesday announced it's expanding into the less-than-truckload (LTL) market -- a segment of the trucking industry that serves businesses with relatively small loads of goods to ship across the country. Uber's new…
2021-07-15 08:00:00 www.zdnet.com There's never been a greater need for cybersecurity experts. Recent studies show that big companies experience significant security issues every 12 hours. If you're interested in a security-related career in the tech industry, this $69 Infosec4TC…
2021-07-15 08:30:08 www.zdnet.com The major telecoms in the US are in a fierce competition over 5G, according to a new report from mobile analytics company Opensignal. In the new "5G User Experience Report July 2021" from Opensignal principal technical analyst…
2021-07-15 02:46:00 www.zdnet.com Image: Telstra Telstra and its CEO Andy Penn have a policy to never pay ransom, with the chief saying at the National Press Club (NPC) on Thursday that it never ends well. "I can certainly see…
2021-07-14 23:42:33 www.zdnet.com Image: NASA Facebook has struck a deal with Amazon that has seen the social media giant's team of wireless internet experts move over to join Amazon's Project Kuiper.While the companies are not disclosing the terms of…
2021-07-14 10:02:00 www.zdnet.com It has been said that robotics is the most challenging area of machine learning: even simple things, such as moving a robotic arm a small distance, are an incredibly complex engineering challenge. You can imagine, then,…
2021-07-14 21:24:31 www.zdnet.com Image: Boom Supersonic Supersonic jet manufacturer Boom expects that by the end of the decade, its Overture aircrafts will be able to fly passengers worldwide in half the time that would typically be spent flying in…
