Microsoft Allows Third-Party Developers into Teams
Microsoft Teams will allow and expand third-party app developers to create applications that can integrate into Teams meetings.
Videoconferencing
Google Steps Up Meet Security, Prohibits Anonymous Users from Joining meetings
This spring, when the world was just getting familiar with videoconferencing platforms, security quickly became a big issue. Unauthorized users were gaining access to video calls and disrupting meetings, conferences, and classes. With children involved, security for the educational use of videoconferencing became very important. Many school districts banned the use of Zoom because of […]
Microsoft Teams Could Be the ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Videoconferencing Wars
Over the last few months, the world got a crash course in videoconferencing and collaboration technology. With remote work now part of our culture, platforms like Zoom, BlueJeans, Lifesize, Webex, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become a must have for most organizations that typically reported to an office setting. However, Microsoft Teams, which is […]
Webex Unveils Virtual Background, Blur
Most videoconferencing providers like Zoom and Microsoft Teams already allow users to choose a virtual background to keep focus on themselves and now their messy home offices. However, one of the earliest videoconferencing applications, Webex, hasn’t offered that feature until now. Last week, Cisco announced Webex users can choose a preset virtual background or blur […]
Microsoft: Yes, Videoconferencing Fatigue is Very Real
Remember when the world was discovering Microsoft Teams, Zoom, GoToMeeting and other videoconferencing services in March during the beginning of the coronavirus quarantine? For many of us, it was our first time using these apps. We used it to connect to coworkers, clients, family and friends in an attempt to replace the lost in-person connections. […]
Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service Makes Zoom Rooms More Affordable
Zoom is introduced a hardware-as-a-service plan that makes deploying Zoom Rooms more accessible by reducing the barriers to entry and high up-front costs. The program, dubbed Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS), gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options for phone and meeting room hardware, the company says […]
Study: AI, Forenics, Social Media Pose Videoconferencing Privacy Risk
We all know about the security and privacy issues that Zoom and other videoconferencing providers wrestled with at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and how those companies addressed those issues since then. However, a new study from Ben-Gurion University suggests that a combination of image processing, text recognition and forensics allowed them to cross reference […]
Google Meet’s New Features Put it on Par with Teams, Zoom
Google Meet is launching a series of new features that aim to make the platform more competitive to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other videoconferencing and collaboration solutions. The new features come as videoconferencing platforms enjoy a surge in use due to the rise of remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company says the platform’s […]
Check Out Google’s New Meet Shortcut
Google Meet is the latest G Sutie app to get a new shortcut feature that allows users to immediately start a call on the web. Users can already use “.new” links to create documents in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Forms. Using Meet.new, users can immediately start a call. According to 9 to 5 […]
Webinar: How to Ensure Productive Video Meetings with Quality Audio
Videoconferencing and unified communications have gone from high-end, optional investments to mandatory capabilities for both remote and in-person collaboration. These capabilities are especially critical now, with current global conditions requiring that more people work and collaborate remotely than ever before. As important as video conferencing is to the digital workforce, quality meeting room audio is […]
