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Survey: Remote Work is Dividing Employees and IT Departments

With limited visibility into workers' activity, there is a growing divide between IT departments and the remote workforce, a new survey finds.

October 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The rise in remote work – and what is expected to be a new normal – is dividing your employees from the IT department and undermining trust in your organization’s technology professionals, according to a new survey. Security platform software provider NetMotion conducted a survey of 500 IT professional and 500 employees in the U.S. […]

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Microsoft Disrupts Trickbot Ahead of U.S. Elections

Microsoft says it teamed up with other tech organizations to take down ransomware and malware proliferator Trickbot to protect U.S. elections, industry.

October 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft and an international group of tech industry organizations disrupted the botnet Trickbot, one of the world’s most prolific distributors of malware and ransomware. Through a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and technical action in coordination with a group of technology organizations, Microsoft helped cut off key […]

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mobile workforce data security

Safeguarding Your Mobile Workforce Data Security in 4 Steps

Businesses are allowing employees to WFH even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. Here are four measures to ensure mobile workforce data security.

October 8, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Research firm Gartner has found that, after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, businesses will face a new kind of challenge: managing their mobile workforce data security. According to Gartner survey, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home in at least some capacity, while 47% plan to allow employees to do so […]

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Slack Canvas

Slack CEO: Stories, Instant Audio Coming To Slack By End Of 2020

With videoconferencing fatigue setting in, Slack is eyeing ways to help teams connect and collaborate without having to hop on a long video call.

October 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is reportedly adding new features to its platform that will introduce social media-like stories and push-to-talk audio by the end of the calendar year. In an interview with The Verge, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield detailed some of the new features the platform wants to bring to its users to help them better acclimate to […]

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Asynchronous Collaboration

Why Asynchronous Collaboration is Just as Important as Videoconferencing

If those long video calls are doing more harm than good, consider moving some of your remote workforce's workflow to asynchronous collaboration.

October 6, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In the early days of quarantine and the COVID-19 lockdowns, teams relied heavily on video calls and other collaboration tools that required everyone to be doing the same thing at the exact same time. That means a remote worker on the West Coast would have to get up early for a 9 a.m. call on […]

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Bose 700 UC

Bose Releases Noise-Cancelling Headphones 700 UC in U.S., Latin America

Bose's new Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet.

September 25, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Bose Professional this week announced their Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are now shipping in the U.S. and Latin America and will also be available in Asia and Europe in September and October, respectively. Certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet, the NCH 700 UC “equip users for better collaboration […]

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NEC UNIVERGE BLUE EXTENDED

NEC Releases UNIVERGE BLUE EXTENDED Integrations Platform

The UNIVERGE BLUE EXTEND integrations platform is designed to provide customers with voice, chat video and contact center functionalities.

September 17, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Zoom Rooms User Interface

Zoom Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication for All Users

Zoom has unveiled enhanced two-factor authentication for web, desktop and mobile that requires online users to present two or more credentials.

September 11, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom went on a three-month security binge to better secure the platform to keep unauthorized users from accessing meetings, and the company still isn’t done rolling out new security measures. The company on Thursday unveiled enhanced two-factor authentication for web, desktop and mobile that requires online users to present two or more credentials to authenticate […]

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