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Dropbox Business has announced several updates for administrators as part of the firm's AdminX initiative to make it easier for IT staff to manage how the service is used. The AdminX programme was announced in July and has now been given its second update. The most...

WhatsApp has started rolling out video calling to Android, iOS and Windows Phone users, finally bringing a much requested feature to the platform. WhatsApp announced the move just a week after launching GIF support for iPhone users, saying that it's finally going to...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool for business owners using Office 365 and Outlook called Outlook Customer Manager, a lightweight Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) tool for companies that need to track their customer interactions and history, but aren’t yet ready...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face serious threats from ransomware after the number of attacks rose by a factor of eight in the past year. The Kaspersky Security Network division revealed that it detected and blocked 27,471 attempts by hackers to infect and...

BT has announced plans to launch a 1Gbps fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) broadband product through its Openreach division, a notable increase from the current high of 330Mbps. BT said that Openreach will offer wholesale customers, such as Sky, TalkTalk and BT Retail, the...

Microsoft have announced that it is bringing Access to Office 365 Business and Business Premium plans. The database management software is already included in the ProPlus, E3, and E5 subscriptions, as well as consumer plans such as Personal and Home. There will also...

Dropbox has announced that it has secured the custom of the IESE Business School to enable better file and information sharing between staff and students across the organisation's global network of campuses. The IESE, which has sites in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, New...

UK inventor Sir James Dyson has announced the creation of a new technology institute in an effort to provide the nation with enough skilled technology and engineering graduates for the future. The Dyson Institute of Technology will be based in Malmesbury, Wiltshire,...

Microsoft has unveiled a new service called Teams that offers a real-time communications chat service as a clear rival to Slack. The new software is an extension of Office 365 Groups, and integrates with Microsoft services including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and...

IBM are rolling out Macs to its employees at a rate of 1,300 per week. It's part of a program that IBM started in early 2015 when it began offering Macs as an option to its 400,000 workers. The initial goal was to deploy 50,000 Macs to willing participants. A year and...