The videoconferencing wars between Microsoft, Zoom and others is showing no signs of slowing down as providers begin adding new features and reinventing their platforms for our work lives past the pandemic. These platforms are still reporting robust growth, including Microsoft Teams, which now has over 145 million active daily users, the company said on […]
Zoom has officially become a CVE Numbering Authority, meaning the company can assign identification numbers to new vulnerabilities and publish information related to those vulnerabilities. The company joins the CVE Program, an international community-based effort to identify, define and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities that require third-party notification or coordination to remediate, Zoom said in […]
Google says it has made improvements to Google Assistant that bolster the company’s artificial intelligence assistant’s natural language capabilities, including correctly understanding and pronouncing unique names. Starting over the next few days, users can teach Google Assistant to enunciate and recognize names of contacts the way they pronounce them. Without keeping a record of the […]
The return to the office will prioritize health and safety in light of the lingering pandemic, so IT managers and their solutions providers will have to make sure their users and customers are equipped with technology that helps make that transition seamless. One way to do that is through the use of artificial intelligence and […]
Zoom has introduced another feature designed to make meetings more fun and bring people together into one virtual meeting space. The new feature is called Immersive View, and it allows meeting hosts to arrange up to 25 video participants or panelists in a webinar into a single virtual background rather than a bunch of separate […]
Crestron today announced Crestron Flex Phones, a new portfolio of Microsoft Teams-certified desk phones for “organizations seeking a dedicated collaboration experience for their employees.” The Crestron Flex Phones “bring best-in-class audio and videoconferencing capabilities, one-touch connectivity, and enterprise-grade security, along with a host of additional features to help users maximize productivity,” the company announcement says. […]
Microsoft’s recent announcement that it is acquiring healthcare artificial intelligence and voice recognition company Nuance could signal a new era of voice-enabled technologies in the enterprise. Nuance’s speech recognition technology for medical dictation is currently used in 77% of U.S. hospitals, and Microsoft plans to integrate those technologies with its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare offering […]
In yet another supply chain attack, a “sophisticated” threat actor has compromised an update of password manage Passwordstate that was available for download for more than two days before the malicious activity was discovered. Click Studios, the Australian company that owns Passwordstate, said customers that performed an in-place upgrade between April 20, at 8:33 p.m. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly launching a ransomware task force that will increase training, dedicate more resources to the issue, improve intelligence sharing and identify links between criminal actors and nation states. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news on Wednesday. The paper said it obtained an internal DOJ […]
At least 100 million IoT devices are prone to Denial of Service or Remote Code Execution attacks, which allow attackers to take devices offline or take control of them, according to a new report from Forescout Research Labs. The cybersecurity software provider that specializes in securing the Internet of Things (IoT), said in its report […]
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