Google has announced that it is integrating its consumer video calling app Duo and its business-focused counterpart Google Meet closer to include all Meet features in an upgraded Duo experience, with plans to combine the apps under the Google Meet brand. Over the next few weeks, Google will add all Meet features to the Duo […]
Google Meet has now caught up with other videoconferencing and collaboration platforms with the company’s rollout of custom virtual backgrounds for video calls. Google in a Friday blog post announced the feature, which allows users to either select one of Google’s hand-picked backgrounds or upload their own image. Google’s backgrounds include office spaces, landscapes and […]
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 […]
Google is reportedly planning to replace its consumer-oriented video calling app Duo with business video calling app Meet in a bid to compete with Zoom and others currently dominating the videoconferencing market. According to 9to5Google, the company’s consumer communication services Duo, Message and Androids Phone app were placed under the leadership of G Suite Vice […]
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 […]
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 […]
Google is rolling out new features for Google Meet, it’s communication and collaboration platform that like many others, has become a staple of remote work due to the coronavirus. Now, users can start and join meetings right from their Gmail inbox, which aims to help users seamlessly switch between email and video meetings, the company […]
Google has rebranded its unified communications and collaboration platform Google Hangouts Meet to just Google Meet as it expands free access to advanced features until Sept. 30. The company announced last month its Google meet videoconferencing services would be available at no cost to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers. That is […]
Google Cloud made a couple of recent moves that make it clear that the IT giant intends to play a bigger role in your meeting rooms. It even has a buzz term — it wants to help you create “frictionless meetings.” When Google exhibited at the recent InfoComm 2018, a trade show focusing in large […]
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