Includes Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics licenses. Microsoft will increase prices for commercial cloud products next year by as much as 8 percent, with Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics all copping a hike.The new prices come into effect from 1st January 2019 and will apply to all commercial cloud products sold via volume licensing agreements.This includes commercial, government, education and not-for-profit customers, ...

Let's face it, data storage isn't the most exciting topic to talk about. While necessary and important for much of the hardware and software you use every day, it's just not terribly engaging, and that's a challenge that Google's Cloud Storage team is pretty familiar with. For its Cloud Next events, Google began looking for a way to engage those in attendance, a way to pull people in and get them totalk about ...

Concerns spread east. The Czech cyber watchdog warned network operators on Monday against using software or hardware made by Chinese telecom equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE, saying they posed a security threat.Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecoms equipment, faces intense scrutiny in the West over its ties to the Chinese government and concerns its equipment could be used by Beijing for ...

Ropes in Microsoft Office 365 as replacement. Australia’s last great bastion of public sector Lotus Notes users, the state of Victoria, has continued its march away from the once-dominant IBM platform after the state’s Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) confirmed it switched to a resurgent Microsoft in the form of Office 365.The move, announced by OPP and Microsoft on Tuesday, aligns the ...

Shares fall almost 7 percent. Twitter shares fell almost 7 percent after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm said hackers used the platform to try to steal user data.Twitter said in a blog that it discovered suspicious traffic to a customer-support forum while investigating a ...

While a company can require its employees to create Google accounts for collaborative work, it can't always force clients to do the same thing. Especially if those clients still swear by Google's competitors, like Microsoft. Now, Mountain View is making it possible for anyone to access Docs, Sheets and Slides files even if they don't have a Google account and even if they refuse to make one -- perhaps as ...

Images contained embedded command. A security vendor has discovered an attempt at using images posted to Twitter - memes - to allow criminals to remotely control malware on infected machines.Trend Micro detailed the latest attempt at using steganography to hide malicious code within images to avoid detection, with the malware it has named TROJAN.MSIL.BERBOMTHUM.AA being coded to fetch JPG memes posted by specific Twitter accounts in October this year.Two memes containing malicious codewere posted ...

While Lenovo continues to push the Motorola brand in the West, it's also been busy doing its own thing back in China. Just last month, the company brought us the Z5 Pro all-screen slider phone which, to our surprise, packed mid-tier specs to woo the budget-conscious consumers. That's all well and good, but surely such a special form factor deserves the best specs available, right? This is where the new Z5 Pro GT comes in.Announced at the Beijing event today, this new Android phone comes loaded with ...