Microsoft is releasing several new capabilities through Microsoft Cloud for Retail designed to help retail organizations communicate while digitizing the physical store and the front-line worker experience, including new computer-vision powered autonomous store offerings and management tools. The new offerings, detailed in a blog, as part of Microsoft’s retail industry cloud offering, come in advance […]
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Marshall Furniture’s Mission to Create Long, Trusted Partnerships With Customers Exemplified During COVID-19 Pandemic
After a 15-year relationship, Marshall Furniture continues to impress one higher education customer with its ability to meet every demand.
For more than 15 years, Marshall Furniture has provided the University of South Carolina with its highly customized technology-enabled furniture, and that relationship has included several large projects that the Antioch, Ill.-based manufacturer has been able to accommodate every step of the way. That has included a standardized design from Marshall Furniture’s custom product line […]
Rise Vision Unveils Emergency Alerts for Interactive Flatpanel Displays
Rise Vision's digital-signage-software solution enables schools to quickly and effectively disseminate emergency alerts to staff and students.
Rise Vision introduced a new feature for its digital-signage-software solution that enables schools to quickly and effectively disseminate emergency alerts to students and staff. The feature works on interactive flatpanels from various brands. These include Promethean, SMART Technologies, Clear Touch, Clevertouch, Boxlight, Newline, BenQ, ViewSonic and Avocor. With this feature, teachers can go about their […]
Verizon Launches New Mobile Microsoft Teams Integration
Verizon Mobile for Microsoft Teams, a new service that integrates mobile devices with Teams for easier calling and collaboration.
Via an expanded partnership with Microsoft, Verizon can now deliver Teams Phone Mobile with the launch of Verizon Mobile for Microsoft Teams, a new service that integrates mobile devices with Teams for easier calling and collaboration. According to Verizon, this makes the telecommunications giant the first U.S. operator to enable wireless subscribers to use their […]
Microsoft To Make Teams Premium Generally Available Next Month
Microsoft Teams Premium is scheduled for general availability next month, and some current features will be moved to the premium version.
Microsoft Teams Premium, a more expensive and feature-rich version of the company’s flagship conferencing and collaboration app, will be generally available early next month, according to the company. In a document, Microsoft says general availability of Teams Premium is scheduled for early February 2023. According to Microsoft, the expected price for Teams Premium is $10 […]
Malware-Delivering Cloud Apps Nearly Tripled in 2022
Cloud-delivered malware is now responsible for a much higher percentage of all malware delivery, Netskope research finds.
Over 400 distinct cloud applications delivered malware in 2022, nearly tripling the amount seen in the prior year, according to the latest research from Netskope, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based SASE provider. Netskope researchers also found that 30% of all cloud malware downloads in 2022 originated from Microsoft OneDrive. As cloud apps are widely used by […]
Verizon Rolls Out New Contact Center Features to Improve Customer Journey
The new digital engagement capabilities for the Verizon Virtual Contact Center are designed to improve the digital customer journey.
Verizon Business is launching a new sutie of digital engagement capabilities for the Verizon Virtual Contact Center designed to improve the end-to-end digital customer journey via a focus on smart, connected, self-service and human-assisted interactions. The company aims to reduce the friction along the customer journey and address their needs across any channel and facilitate […]
Study: Eliminating Meetings Can Increase Productivity and Reduce Meeting Fatigue
TechSmith Corp. eliminated meetings for a month to see if virtual meetings impacted productivity. They were.
For a large amount of the U.S. workforce, they’ve spent the last three years in endless virtual meetings with colleagues, customers and clients. With the pandemic no longer a driving force behind workplace trends and hybrid work expected to remain a key part of corporate culture, calls on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or other conferencing apps […]
Education, Healthcare And Government Organizations Impacted by Ransomware in 2022
An Emsisoft report found almost twice the number of K-12 schools were impacted by ransomware in 2022 compared to 2021.
Ransomware continues to be a significant challenge for colleges and universities, school districts, and hospitals across the country, according to a new report. The 2022 report, released Monday by digital security firm Emsisoft, determined 89 education sector organizations were impacted by ransomware. Broken down, hackers demanded ransoms from 44 universities and colleges, and 45 school districts […]
January 2023 Patch Tuesday: Nearly 100 Bugs, One Actively Exploited
Microsoft releases fixes for 98 security vulnerabilities for its January 2023 Patch Tuesday release, including one under active exploitation.
IT administrators are starting 2023 with a busy January Patch Tuesday, as Microsoft has released fixes for nearly 100 vulnerabilities, including 11 rated critical and one under active attack. According to security researchers, the 98 vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s security update from Microsoft is the largest the company has issued in a January for […]
