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In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) will become a greater part of an enterprise’s unified communications (UC) infrastructure, but for all the talk of innovation at this year’s UC Expo, there are some who question whether this technology, and others beside, will ever make it out of a supplier’s demo lab and be used for real within organisations. It seems that, in a bi...

Enghouse Systems has bagged US video software player Vidyo in a circa $40m deal, adding $60m revenues. Vidyo's infrastructure software platform incorporates patented video routing, management and interoperability technologies delivered in the cloud, on-premise or as a hybrid solution. The company focuses on select vertical markets, particularly healthcare and financial insti...

Daisy Communications is again targeting acquisitions of both businesses and partner customer bases after completing a refinancing project and securing a £100m bank facility. The business communications and IT services provider is offering indirect telecoms business owners the chance to earn up to million pound figures following an internal restructure and investment into its...

Westcon has been selected as one of the pan-EMEA distributors for Poly – the company formed through the merger of Plantronics and Polycom. Westcon has previously been a Plantronics and Polycom distributor for a long time in several markets, and has now been selected as one of the pan-EMEA Authorised Distributors covering the new company’s broad portfolio. Rene Klein, Senior ...

TeamViewer confirmed this week that it has been the victim of a cyber attack which was discovered during the autumn of 2016 but was never disclosed. This attack is thought to be of Chinese origins and utilized the Winnti backdoor. The company behind the highly popular TeamViewer remote desktop software told German publisher Der Spiegel that the attack was discovered before t...

Slack has fixed a bug that could have allowed hackers to intercept and redirect downloads in the Windows desktop version of the messaging app. However, it seems no Slack users were affected before the service fixed the vulnerability. A researcher with cybersecurity firm Tenable found that hackers could have placed a malicious link in a Slack channel that, when clicked, would...

Secureworks, a global cybersecurity company, has this week announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services, Worldwide. Secureworks is placed furthest for completeness of vision and highest for the ability to execute out of all 14 vendors in the Gartner assessment. “We believe that our position in...

Salesforce recently suffered a critical outage after it was discovered that customer data was vulnerable. An apparent bug in the system caused all permissions to be granted to every single profile in some organisations. This included standard profiles and custom profiles. This meant that users didn't just get read access, but they also received write permissions, making it e...

European Union members including the UK have launched a new regime that imposes EU sanctions on cyber-security attackers as part of a fresh effort to counter the threat of organised crime and state-sponsored cyber-attacks. An agreement signed on 17 May in Brussels, gives the UK and the EU rights to impose tough sanctions on players behind cyber-attacks. Sanctions Confirming ...

UK consumers believe GDPR has failed them and that their data is no more or no less secure than it was a year ago when GDPR was introduced. This is according to a new report by IDEX Biometrics Asa, which claims 84 per cent of the respondents believe GDPR wasn’t taken seriously enough. The report argues that businesses should be clearer in stating their security-first approac...