Microsoft is rolling out new features for Teams and OneNote as educators and students begin to look to the platform for distance learning at the start of a new school year. In particular, the new features tackle social-emotional learning (SEL) as educators hope to augment their in-person teaching methods with distance learning technology for students […]
NEC has announced the general availability of its UNIVERGE BLUE EXTEND integrations platform for NEC’s UNIVERGE BLUE Cloud Services designed to provide customers with voice, chat video and contact center functionalities. Those services will be provided by UNIVERGE BLUE CONNECT and UNIVERGE BLUE ENGAGE and can be combined with everyday business applications from leading enterprise […]
Zoom is reportedly making investments in its messaging capabilities in a bid to better compete with Slack and Microsoft Teams, according to media reports. First reported The Information and cited by several other media organizations, Zoom is working on a significant upgrade to the platforms messaging function to supplement its video capabilities. According to The […]
You’ll have to wait a little bit longer for Integrated Systems Europe to make its Barcelona, Spain, debut. ISE 2021, slated for Feb. 2-5 at the Fira de Barcelona, has been postponed amidst a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across Europe. ISE, the world’s largest pro AV show, has been postponed to June […]
Google is partnering with Lenovo to release its Series One meeting room kits for its videoconferencing platform Google Meet. The hardware bundle – made exclusively for Google Meet – includes the Smart Audio Bar using onboard Google Edge TPUs with noise cancellation technology, a 4K PTZ camera, the Google Meet compute system, a touchscreen control […]
Videoconferencing and collaboration apps like Google Meet are, for obvious reasons, crucially important right now. To that end, Google has worked over the last few months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve Meet and better integrate it with Gmail and other G Suite tools. Now, the Google Meet mobile apps for iOS and […]
Telephony has been a central part of business technology essentially since phones were invented, allowing organizations to conduct business and connect with others. However, legacy business phone systems (PBX) are a standalone system, meaning the management, maintenance and upgrading of that system is separate from every other piece of workplace technology today, and that’s in […]
Crestron is now shipping the next generation of its Crestron Flex video conferencing platform “designed to deliver more options, opportunities and possibilities to communicate, collaborate, and control from anywhere,” according to the company announcement. “From the desktop to the boardroom, Crestron Flex delivers native Microsoft Teams or Zoom Rooms software conferencing systems, as well as […]
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft List in Teams, a new app that helps users keep track of information and organize their work. The company first announced Lists at its Build conference in May. The app lets users track issues, assets, routines, contacts, inventory and more via customizable views and smart rules and […]
Many businesses have used on-premise UC systems for their relatively low cost and ease of control. But after a global pandemic, cloud strategies are changing, and organizations who hadn’t yet embraced cloud communications started floundering. At Enterprise Connect 2020, Melissa Swartz, Founder of Swartz Consulting, provided a cloud strategy framework to provide an answer to the […]
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