Over $83 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities improve school security and protect students, teachers and faculty from threats of violence, according to a recent announcement from U.S. Attorney Bill Powell. “Schools should be a safe haven for students, a place to learn and grow. No child, parent, or educator should […]
Enterprise Connect, the enterprise communications and collaboration conference and trade show originally scheduled to take place later this month, will now be in an online webinar format on the originally scheduled days. From March 30 to April 1, the event will be hosting a three-day virtual program featuring the most popular breakout sessions in webinar […]
Videoconferencing platform Zoom has certified Yamaha Unified Communications’ CS-700 Video Sound Bar, allowing the audio, camera and USB interface to seamlessly integrate with Zoom’s software. Yamaha UC, based in Sudbury, Mass., announced the certification in a Thursday press release, saying the certification verifies that the sound bar is interoperable with Zoom and allows users to […]
Today’s collaboration technology cannot be defined as “one-size-fits-all”. Businesses today, whether large or small, require customizable employee collaboration, stemming from designated meeting spaces, including huddle rooms. A huddle room, or huddle space, is an area where in-office, global, and remote teams can come together to focus on their company-wide collaboration efforts. Generally smaller than the […]
The way meeting rooms are utilized is changing by the year. Collecting meeting space data offers serious cost-savings benefits to decision-makers and their organizations. Do you know when their meeting rooms are being used? Do they know how many people are in them when they are used? We spoke with Warren Fernandez at Microsoft to […]
Wire and cable installation solution company Platinum Tools has launched its new HPH J-Hooks, a new line of high-performance hybrid hooks designed for a variety of applications. The hooks — designed for high-performance cables like Cat6a, Cat7, and fiber optics — feature a smooth, radiused 2-inch wide base with no pressure points. They’re UL listed, […]
In order to help teachers keep students on task throughout the school day when they are at learning at home, Impero Software Impero Education Pro web-based software free for the remainder of the school year to districts that do not already have remote monitoring software in place. The cross-platform product combines tools for online safety, […]
Two years after the European Commission passed laws enabling the right-to-repair appliances, it’s now looking to move forward with right-to-repair laws for smartphones, Vice reports. A recent statement from the European Union details what the new legislation would hone in on, including new initiatives that would apply to smartphones: “The new Action Plan announces initiatives […]
As schools become increasingly reliant on technology for teaching and learning, it is putting them at greater risk for cybersecurity incidents, which is apparent in the findings of a new cybersecurity report. “The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2019 Year in Review,” released by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, found there were 348 cybersecurity incidents reported at 336 K-12 […]
It started Thursday, March 6, 2020. The University of Washington released a statement that all classes would be moved online for the remainder of the quarter. Then Friday came Stanford’s announcement. The dominoes continued to fall. Within the next 48 hours, every major institution in the United States announced some version of transitioning on-campus classes […]
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