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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 […]

Google Begins Rolling Out Virtual Backgrounds in Meet

Google Meet users will soon be able to select from virtual background templates or upload their own image to replace their background during video calls.

November 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]

ManagedMethods Announces Google Classroom Monitoring, Reporting

Using ManagedMethods, IT administrators can monitor Google Meet sessions, create Meet attendance reports for teachers, and view any Meet sessions.

October 26, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

ManagedMethods, a Google G Suite and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity, student safety, and compliance platform for K-12 schools, has launched its new Google Classroom monitoring and reporting features. The announcement of the newest features comes after the May announcement of the company’s Google Meet monitoring and reporting capabilities. Using ManagedMethods, IT administrators can monitor which Google Meet sessions students […]

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Google Says Company Mitigated 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack, Largest Ever

Google says it was the target of a massive 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack in September 2017, the highest bandwidth attack ever reported.

October 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google says it was the target of a massive 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack in September 2017, the highest bandwidth attack ever reported. In a blog post exploring the growth of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Google revealed that it was the target of a six-month campaign that utilized multiple methods of attack. “Despite simultaneously targeting thousands […]

U.S. DOJ Sues Google for Alleged Antitrust Violations

The U.S. Department of Justice and eleven state Attorneys General are suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws.

October 20, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The U.S. Department of Justice and eleven state Attorneys General are suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws and maintaining a monopoly in the search engine and online advertising markets. Google, the DOJ says, is the “monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and advertisers,” and has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and […]

Google Introduces New AI Improvements to Search

New artificial intelligence tools are coming to Google's search engine that decipher misspellings and improve search results.

October 19, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is getting new artificial intelligence tools that improve Google’s search service and account for misspellings and provide more accurate search results. The improvements rely heavily on AI and machine learning, including Google’s BERT language understanding system, which is now used in almost every search in English. This will help users find content even if […]

Breakout Rooms Come to Some Google Meet Users

Google is rolling out breakout rooms for some Google Meet users that will allow up to 100 breakout rooms to be created.

October 12, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google Meet is getting breakout rooms for G Suite Enterprise for Education customers that will allow organizers to divide rooms into smaller groups during video calls. According to a G Suite blog, users can create up to 100 breakout rooms in one single call. Call participants will be randomly and equally distributed across rooms, and […]

Google Rebrands G Suite as Google Workspace

Google Workspace includes all of the Google workflow and productivity apps we know along with a more integrated experience.

October 6, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is rebranding its G Suite group of productivity apps like Gmail, Meet, Docs, Sheets and more as Google Workspace along with a new user experience and new solutions as the company looks to better compete with Microsoft. Along with the rebranding are new features designed to make the variety of workflow and productivity tools […]

Google Extends Free Google Meet Service

Google is extending its offer of free unlimited Meet calls through March of 2021 for Gmail accounts after originally setting a date of Sept. 30.

September 30, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is continuing its offer of free unlimited Meet calls through March of 2021 for Gmail accounts after originally setting a date of Sept. 30. The move will help keep users of the free service connected with one another after Google in April made its videoconferencing and collaboration product free for anyone with a Gmail […]

Google CEO: Hybrid Work is the Future

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company is leaning into a hybrid work strategy that prioritizes culture and collaboration.

September 29, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Organizations around the world have embraced remote or hybrid work with varying degrees of adoption. Some are beginning to bring their employees back to the office in full, some are doing so in phases until the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, and others like Google are offering a more hybrid approach. Sundar Pichai, CEO of […]