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Microsoft Teams Could Be the ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Videoconferencing Wars

The world was introduced to a litany of videoconferencing solutions earlier this year, but some UCC experts say Microsoft Teams will come out on top.

July 14, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Over the last few months, the world got a crash course in videoconferencing and collaboration technology. With remote work now part of our culture, platforms like Zoom, BlueJeans, Lifesize, Webex, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become a must have for most organizations that typically reported to an office setting. However, Microsoft Teams, which is […]

Webex Unveils Virtual Background, Blur

Webex hopes to catch up with Zoom, Teams with a virtual background and blur feature to help limit distractions and maintain privacy during video meetings.

July 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Most videoconferencing providers like Zoom and Microsoft Teams already allow users to choose a virtual background to keep focus on themselves and now their messy home offices. However, one of the earliest videoconferencing applications, Webex, hasn’t offered that feature until now. Last week, Cisco announced Webex users can choose a preset virtual background or blur […]

Microsoft Teams’ New Features Address Meeting Fatigue, Productivity

New Microsoft Teams features utilize artificial intelligence, video filters, live reactions. Plus, they're designe to reduce WFH fatigue, company says.

July 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is again improving the experience on its flagship chat and communications platform Teams with new features that utilize artificial intelligence, video filters, live reactions and more. Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, detailed the new releases in a Wednesday blog post. “These features offer three key benefits for people at work and […]

Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service Makes Zoom Rooms More Affordable

Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options.

July 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom is introduced a hardware-as-a-service plan that makes deploying Zoom Rooms more accessible by reducing the barriers to entry and high up-front costs. The program, dubbed Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS), gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options for phone and meeting room hardware, the company says […]

How Meeting Notes Software Can Make Remote Work Easier

How meeting note software like Hugo solves the problem of fragmented note-taking among different parts of an organization.

July 7, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The world is now quite familiar with videoconferencing and unified communication and collaboration technology like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and others thanks to COVID-19 and remote work. Because we aren’t all in the office together, we’re getting a lot more use out of those platforms than we’ve ever had, and we’re meeting more frequently. […]

With E-Learning Platforms, School Districts are Building the Foundation for Better Outcomes

A broad overview of how e-learning platforms are changing school districts and helping to achieve better educational outcomes.

July 2, 2020 Jeremy Dolby Leave a Comment

When Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered schools closed throughout the state in response to the coronavirus pandemic, sending home millions of students to learn remotely, Cicero School District 99 was ready. The K-8 district of 14,000 students, southwest of Chicago, was already five years into its mission, driven by Superintendent Rudy Hernandez, of changing the […]

My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 89: Hugo and the Importance of Asynchronous Collaboration

Darren Chait, co-founder of collaborative note-taking app Hugo, talks about the importance of keeping track of meeting notes and asynchronous collaboration.

June 26, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Darren Chait, co-founder of collaborative note-taking app Hugo, talks about the importance of keeping track of meeting notes and asynchronous collaboration.

Week in Review: COVID Detection Tech, Evaluating Employees, etc.

This week, June 22- 26, 2020: temperature scanning platforms, contactless technology, evaluating employees, sound masking, and more.

June 26, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

This week, June 22- 26, 2020: temperature scanning platforms, contactless technology, evaluating employees, sound masking, and more.

How AV Tech Can Help Higher Ed Adjust to COVID-19

Colleges and universities will need to work through the summer to ensure they have all the necessary technology to support hybrid learning environments.

June 26, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

One of the many lingering questions about adjusting to the new normal revolves around education and how we will continue to educate the world’s next leaders during a global pandemic. Higher education, like most the business world, has been conducted remotely for the last few months, but with learning over for most students, now is […]

QSC Joins Microsoft Teams Certification Program

QSC has announced that it has joined the Microsoft Teams Device Certification Program to enhance the Q-SYS Ecosystem's integration with Teams Rooms.

June 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

QSC has announced that it has joined the Microsoft Teams Device Certification Program to enhance the Q-SYS Ecosystem’s integration with Teams Rooms. The popular conferencing and audio equipment manufacturer is working towards completing specific solution certifications aimed at further empowering effective meetings and collaboration with Teams Rooms and the Q-SYS Ecosystem in larger, more complex […]

The world was introduced to a litany of videoconferencing solutions earlier this year, but some UCC experts say Microsoft Teams will come out on top.

Webex hopes to catch up with Zoom, Teams with a virtual background and blur feature to help limit distractions and maintain privacy during video meetings.

New Microsoft Teams features utilize artificial intelligence, video filters, live reactions. Plus, they're designe to reduce WFH fatigue, company says.

Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options.

How meeting note software like Hugo solves the problem of fragmented note-taking among different parts of an organization.

A broad overview of how e-learning platforms are changing school districts and helping to achieve better educational outcomes.

Darren Chait, co-founder of collaborative note-taking app Hugo, talks about the importance of keeping track of meeting notes and asynchronous collaboration.

This week, June 22- 26, 2020: temperature scanning platforms, contactless technology, evaluating employees, sound masking, and more.

Colleges and universities will need to work through the summer to ensure they have all the necessary technology to support hybrid learning environments.

QSC has announced that it has joined the Microsoft Teams Device Certification Program to enhance the Q-SYS Ecosystem's integration with Teams Rooms.

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