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AVI-SPL Releases Symphony 5.0 with Major Upgrades

AVI-SPL Symphony platform sees adapters expansion, automation and workflow upgrades, room control and UX enhancements, and more with the release of 5.0.

October 13, 2020 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

AVI-SPL’s Symphony platform has been the backbone of a number of collaboration deployments over the past several years. With its latest release, Symphony 5.0, the potential for deployments is expanding exponentially, allowing the platform to evolve from just collaboration settings to any and all connected environments. The main enhancements for Symphony 5.0 build on the […]

Crestron Releases Next Generation of Crestron Flex UC Portfolio

Crestron is now shipping the next generation of its Crestron Flex video conferencing platform for Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms.

September 8, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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 […]

Remote Work Helps Zoom Quadruple Revenue in Q2

Boosted by the rapid shift to remote work, Zoom posted a massive second quarter with revenues rising by more than 350% year-over-year.

September 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom has posted the results of what was expected to be a gigantic second quarter, and the web conferencing giant didn’t disappoint. The company reported an exponential increase in users. Although it did not detail the exact number, the company said it has 370,200 customers with more than 10 employees, In April, Zoom said it […]

Coordinated Meetings Can Sync Up Microsoft Teams Rooms Devices, Surface Hub

August 27, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

According to documents on Microsoft’s website, the company is introducing a new feature called Coordinated Meetings that allows users to sync one or more Teams Rooms devices and a Surface Hub. When users join a meeting on one device, other devices in the room will also join the same meeting. Cameras, speakers and microphones can […]

Zoom, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex Come to Facebook Portal

Facebook is bringing several videoconferencing platforms to its Portal device to complement the company’s collaboration tool Workplace.

August 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Facebook is bringing several videoconferencing platforms to its Portal device to complement the company’s collaboration tool Workplace. Those videoconferencing providers are Zoom, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting and Webex, the company said in a news release. Those apps will be available on Portal next month. “Whether you’re meeting one-on-one with a colleague or joining up to 1,000 participants,* […]

Virtual Assistants Are Quickly Becoming Part of the Workforce

Virtual assistants like Cortana and Alexa are becoming a larger, more integrated part of the conference room and our workplace experience.

August 18, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Virtual assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and others have been a helpful aide in the lives of many consumers. These assistants help users buy goods, schedule activities and turn appliances on and off. Now, these intelligent assistants are becoming our coworkers as Amazon and Microsoft along with hardware partners take steps to bring Alexa […]

TechDecisions Week in Review: August 10-14 2020

This week, August 10-14, 2020: digital signage webinar, improving conferencing problems, news from Slack, Workday, IBM, and more.

August 14, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

This week, August 10-14, 2020: digital signage webinar, improving conferencing problems, news from Slack, Workday, IBM, and more.

Logitech Introduces BYOM Device Swytch

Logitech Swytch, a compact, one-cable laptop link, enables a user to run meetings with their laptop with any videoconferencing platform.

August 4, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

So you have a Zoom Room or Microsoft Teams Room in the office, but an external call was scheduled on another platform. That can cause headaches for end users and IT departments everywhere. That’s especially true these days when videoconferencing is the preferred method of communication, but there are several vendors out there aside from […]

Microsoft Allows Third-Party Developers into Teams

Microsoft Teams will allow and expand third-party app developers to create applications that can integrate into Teams meetings.

July 21, 2020 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

Microsoft Teams will allow and expand third-party app developers to create applications that can integrate into Teams meetings.

Google Steps Up Meet Security, Prohibits Anonymous Users from Joining meetings

Google Meet, popular among educators, is rolling out a feature that will prevent users without a Google account from joining meetings.

July 17, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]