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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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Slack Canvas

Slack is Experiencing Connection, Performance Issues

Slack is investigating the cause of the issue after the platform said its connection and performance were affected Monday.

October 5, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is reporting unexplained issues with connecting and degraded performance today. According to Slack’s states page, users began experiencing slowness with desktop, browser and mobile versions starting around 10 a.m. EDT. “The issue is sending messages and troubles with API calls,” the company said. “Our team is looking into it and we will follow up […]

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Microsoft January Patch Tuesday

Microsoft 365 Services Restored After Hours Long Global Outage

According to Microsoft, a coding issue caused a massive outage Monday night to services like Teams, Outlook, Exchange, SharePoint and others.

September 29, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you found yourself working later in the day or a little past working hours yesterday, you may have run into a problem with your Office 365 services. That’s because of a massive outage that affected several services, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Azure, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365 and other applications. Down Detector, a website […]

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Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft Announces New Features, Products at Ignite

Unified communicaiton, cloud services and security tools highlight announcements made at Microsoft's annual Ignite conference.

September 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference from Tuesday to Thursday, has already been eventful for the myriad of new products and features the company has unveiled. Many of the new tools are designed to help companies meet the challenge of doing business in the COVID-19 era and hybrid work. Here’s a look at some innovations in Office […]

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Avocor 55-inch collaboration displays

Avocor ReleasingThree 55-inch Collaboration Displays

Avocor has released three new 55-inch collaboration displays designed to meet the needs of remote and hybrid work and learning.

September 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Avocor has released three new 55-inch collaboration displays designed to meet the needs of remote and hybrid work as well as distance and in-person learning. According to the company, the displays are designed for home offices, dedicated remote learning areas, huddle rooms and other conferencing spaces across the enterprise. The three new offerings are the […]

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Microsoft Surface Hub 2S

Microsoft Beings Pre-Orders for 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Microsoft is expanding its Surface Hub line with a new 85-inch Surface Hub 2S that the company says is designed for improved collaboration and hybrid work.

September 22, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is expanding its Surface Hub product line with the new 85-inch Surface Hub 2S that the company says is designed for improved collaboration and hybrid work. In a blog announcing the start of preorders for the $21,999.99 collaboration display, the company detailed several ways hybrid work teams are using the smaller 55-inch Surface Hub […]

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Crestron Flex UC

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 […]

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My TechDecisions Podcast, zero trust

My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 96: Virtual Assistants and the Conference Room

Associate Editor Zachary Comeau speaks with Chris Thorson, senior director of global solutions marketing at conference hardware provider Poly, about the use cases of virtual assistants for the conference room.

August 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Associate Editor Zachary Comeau speaks with Chris Thorson, senior director of global solutions marketing at conference hardware provider Poly, about the use cases of virtual assistants for the conference room.

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Lifesize Kaptivo

Lifesize Acquires Kaptivo for Digital Whiteboarding Enhancements

Conferencing provider Lifesize has acquired digital collaboration firm Kaptivo in a bid to expand Lifesize’s platform with more whiteboarding abilities.

August 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Conferencing provider Lifesize has acquired digital collaboration firm Kaptivo in a bid to expand Lifesize’s cloud-based unified communications and collaboration portfolio. Lifesize aims to make use of Kaptivo’s expertise in computer vision, image processing and artificial intelligence for visual collaboration to bring digital whiteboarding to Lifesize’s portfolio. Kaptivo’s whiteboarding solution pairs advanced image processing software […]

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