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Olive Communications, one of the market-leading solutions for cloud telephony and UC, recently announced that it had achieved significant growth this financial year. The full-year financial results from the company indicate a massive 48% growth in cloud revenue. This BGF-backed brand has earned a number of impressive contracts in 2019, including new collaborations with the Y...

Yealink and Xelion have joined hands to explore the European VoIP market. The business cooperation between the two companies is to further their shared mission of delivering Yealink voice communication solutions to Europe businesses. “We are very excited to announce the partnership with Xelion.” said Penny Zheng, Yealink Regional Director of Europe and Africa, “Xelion is a r...

Slack reworked its service-level agreement to be less generous to customers after outages cost the team messaging vendor $8.2 million last quarter. Slack still promises to keep its service online 99.99% of the time, higher than the 99.9% uptime most cloud vendors guarantee. But it will no longer pay every customer regardless of whether they were affected by an outage. Plus, ...

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has this week announced that HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, will standardize on Zoom. With licenses available for over 290,000 users and Conference Room Connectors to over 5,500 hardware endpoints, this enterprise-wide deployment represents both Zoom’s largest account sold by initial revenue and ...

Cisco will host private instances of its flagship IP-based telephony platform in its cloud data centers to woo large businesses looking to move to the cloud with as little disruption as possible. It's the vendor's latest move to consolidate collaboration software in the Webex cloud. The new offering, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Cloud, will let customers keep ...

Maintel's interim results for the six months to 30th June 2019 saw revenue down 3% to £64.5m (H1 2018: £66.5m) with recurring revenue at 69% (H1 2018: 70%) and gross margin at 29% (H1 2018: 27%). The company also announced that CEO Eddie Buxton will leave at the end of the year. He joined the business in 2009. Maintel's transition to a cloud and managed services business con...

Not long ago, we saw the emergence of sim swapping attacks utilizing a loophole in the two-factor authentication process. Now in the latest, researchers from Check Point have discovered vulnerabilities in certain Android-based phones including the likes of Samsung, Huawei, Sony, and LG which allows attackers to access your information. These phone companies collectively happ...

Research has revealed that 40% of IT security professionals think paying to retrieve data targeted by ransomware should be made illegal. The findings come from a survey of 145 security pros who visited AT&T Cybersecurity's booth at this year's Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. Despite 60% of respondents saying that they wanted to have the option to pay ransomware without falling f...

A recent cybersecurity audit revealed that four out of five schools in the United Kingdom have suffered a security incident like phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks. And many of these attacks were conducted by the schools’ students and staff. The survey, which was carried out by the National Cyber Security Centre and the London Grid for Learning (LGfL), also highlighte...

A major cyberattack took down Wikipedia in several markets over the weekend, the company has confirmed. The popular reference site said it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down its sites across part of Europe and the Middle East. The attack meant users in the UK, as well as France, Germany and Italy, were among those affected, with the out...