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Mobile Access Control Solution from STid & Bosch is Completely Touchless

Touchless mobile access control solution from Bosch & STid requires only a mobile phone for identification rather than biometric features.

December 3, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

A new STid and Bosch Building Technologies partnership offers a mobile, touchless access control solution for buildings. The collaboration combines STid’s expertise in contactless identification solutions with Bosch’s comprehensive access control portfolio to offer a touchless and convenient access solution based on mobile phones. Users can use their mobile phone as means of identification when […]

ClearOne Launches Aura For Home Office Conferencing

December 2, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

ClearOne Aura is a new line of audio and video options to meet the growing demand for the home office market. According to the company, the Aura product line comes in a range of good, better and best packages of audio, video and audio-video solutions along with a free lifetime subscription to the company’s video […]

Salesforce To Acquire Slack in $27.7B Deal

Salesforce, Slack deal will create a solution that will give organizations a single unified platform for connecting employees, customers and partners.

December 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Just days after reports surfaced about a possible deal, customer relationship management provider Salesforce has announced a deal to acquire enterprise collaboration platform Slack in a deal worth $27.7 billion. In an announcement, the companies say combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be “transformative for customers and the industry,” creating an operating system for […]

Microsoft Makes Changes to Productivity Score Tool Due to Privacy Concerns

Microsoft is making changes to its Productivity Score tool that measures organizations' use of Microsoft 365 products after privacy concerns surfaced.

December 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is making changes to its Productivity Score tool that helps organizations measure their employees’ interaction with Microsoft 365 apps after privacy concerns surfaced last week. In a blog post, Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, detailed the changes the company is making to Productivity Score, which gives IT administrators data and insights […]

Microsoft Ends Teams Support For Internet Explorer 11

The Microsoft Teams web app no longer supports Internet Explorer 11 as the company pivots to Microsoft Edge and begins to sunset legacy solutions. 

December 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The Microsoft Teams web app no longer supports Internet Explorer 11 as the company pivots to Microsoft Edge and begins to sunset legacy solutions. The company announced in August that Microsoft Teams, its flagship unified communications and collaboration platform that has exploded in popularity largely due to pandemic-induced remote work, would no longer support IE […]

Report: Salesforce Could Acquire Slack

A Salesforce acquisition of Slack would merge the top customer relation management platform with an office collaboration app.

November 30, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Customer relationship management platform Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire workplace collaboration platform Slack. According to multiple news reports, the deal – which could be announced as soon as this week – would add to Salesforce’s list of recent acquisitions over the last few years. CNBC reported that the deal could be one of […]

The Statue of Liberty Museum’s Digital Signage

Three connected theaters in the Statue of Liberty Museum have their own floor-to-ceiling curved screens, one measuring 17’ x 24’ & two measuring 12’ x 20’.

November 30, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Before the Statue of Liberty Museum was built, there had been no new construction on Liberty Island in over forty years. The museum could welcome up to 25,000 visitors a day and its first experience, an awe-inspiring short film, needed a theater with digital signage that would deliver an immersive, engaging experience visitors would remember […]

Google Brings Microsoft Office Editing to iOS

Google is reducing the need to convert files and is making it possible to edit Microsoft Office files when users of Google Workspace are on an iOS device.

November 25, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is making it possible to edit Microsoft Office files when users of Google Workspace are on an iOS device, the company announced Tuesday. This brings the collaborative and assistive features in Google Workplace to Microsoft Office files when using iOS devices like MacBooks, iPads and iPhones. The feature is already available on the web […]

Breakout Rooms Come to More Google Meet Users

Google is beginning roll out breakout rooms to more Google Meet users along with new features to improve the breakout rooms experience.

November 20, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is beginning roll out breakout rooms to more Google Meet users along with new features to improve the breakout rooms experience. The company on Thursday announced that breakout rooms would be coming to users of Google Workspace, Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and G Suite Business and Enterprise […]

Enterprise Connect 2021 to Offer Virtual, Hybrid Events

UCC trade show Enterprise Connect has announced new formats and dates for its 2021 shows, including a mix of virtual and hybrid events.

November 19, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Communications and collaboration conference and trade show Enterprise Connect has announced new formats and dates for its 2021 shows, including a mix of virtual and hybrid events. Enterprise Connect 2021, the main event typically held in the spring before the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held from Sept. 27-29 in Orlando, Fla. as a hybrid in-person […]