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Crestron Flex Mm

Crestron Releases Flex MM for Hybrid Work Conferencing

The Crestron Flex MM is a web conferencing solution for both in-office conference room and work-from-home applications.

August 11, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

End users seeking hybrid work technology just got another option as Crestron today introduced the Crestron Flex MM, an audio and video conferencing solution suitable for both conference room and work-from-home applications. The Flex MM “enables integrators to bring an enterprise-grade, tabletop unified communications solution to the home office with native Microsoft Teams or Zoom […]

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Unified Communications ROI

The ROI of Unified Communications: Simplicity, Mobility, Productivity and Continuity

If your organization hasn't considered an investment in unified communications, you could be missing out on these returns.

August 4, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

For many businesses, unified communications tools and platforms have been a lifeline through the coronavirus pandemic that they didn’t realize they had. To have voice, chat, video, email, and a range of other communication tools and applications are unified under one platform is helping many survive and adapt to changing work environments, increase productivity, reduce […]

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Logitech Swytch

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 […]

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Logitech Alexa for Business

Logitech Introduces Integration with Alexa for Business for Zoom Rooms

Logitech announced Tuesday that its solutions for Zoom Rooms will integrate with Alexa for Business to allow for contactless collaboration.

July 14, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Meeting room device manufacturer Logitech announced Tuesday that its solutions for Zoom Rooms will integrate with Alexa for Business to allow for contactless collaboration. This new offering aims to help enterprise customers prepare for hybrid work environments in which not all employees will return to the office amid the coronavirus pandemic. The integration will incorporate […]

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Webex Virtual background

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 […]

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Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service

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 […]

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Meeting Notes Software

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. […]

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e-learning platforms

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 […]

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Google Meet Mobile Apps

Check Out Google’s New Meet Shortcut

Google Meet is the latest G Suite app to get a new shortcut feature that allows users to immediately start a call on the web.

June 22, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google Meet is the latest G Sutie app to get a new shortcut feature that allows users to immediately start a call on the web. Users can already use “.new” links to create documents in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Forms. Using Meet.new, users can immediately start a call. According to 9 to 5 […]

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