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Week in Review: the Cloud, Security, Teams, etc.

This week, July 6-10, 2020: temperature scanning platforms, contactless technology, evaluating employees, sound masking, and more.

July 10, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Welcome to My TechDecisions Week in Review, where we round up the most important stories you might have missed this week, July 6-10, 2020. Read on to find out what’s happening this week:   Features Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Cloud Migration Approach Understanding the product that will overhaul your cloud migration […]

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Zoom Zero-Day

Cyberseucirty Firm Discloses Zero-Day Vulnerability in Zoom

Zoom is working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed by a security firm just days after the conclusion of a 90-day non-security feature freeze.

July 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom is reportedly working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed Thursday by a cybersecurity firm. The vulnerability, detected by ACROS Security, affects users running Zoom Client for Windows on older versions of Windows, specifically Windows 7 and older. Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 in January, but there are still many […]

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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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Zoom Privacy

Study: AI, Forenics, Social Media Pose Videoconferencing Privacy Risk

A new study suggests that a combination of image processing, text recognition and forensics can pose a privacy risk on videoconferencing platforms.

July 7, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

We all know about the security and privacy issues that Zoom and other videoconferencing providers wrestled with at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and how those companies addressed those issues since then. However, a new study from Ben-Gurion University suggests that a combination of image processing, text recognition and forensics allowed them to cross reference […]

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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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Google Meet

Google Meet’s New Features Put it on Par with Teams, Zoom

Google Meet is launching a series of new features that aim to make the platform more competitive with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other video calling apps.

July 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google Meet is launching a series of new features that aim to make the platform more competitive to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other videoconferencing and collaboration solutions. The new features come as videoconferencing platforms enjoy a surge in use due to the rise of remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company says the platform’s […]

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Redrock Biometrics Releases PalmID Agent in Apple App Store

Redrock Biometrics developed the PalmID Agent app as a front-end component of PalmID Identity Provider to deliver a passwordless sign-in.

July 2, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Redrock Biometrics, a provider of palm-print based biometrics for authentication and identification, announces it has released PalmID Agent software in the Apple App Store as the final step in its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory platform. Redrock Biometrics developed the app as a front-end component of PalmID Identity Provider to deliver a passwordless sign-in experience for online users. As the user is challenged for their palm on their phone, the access […]

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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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Unified Communications

Unified Communications Will Fundamentally Transform Your Organization’s Communication

Unified communications can help your organization communicate and collaborate real time in a secure cloud-based environment.

June 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As more and more organizations migrate their data from on-premises client servers to the cloud, end users are discovering the benefits of having their communications tools, platforms and applications under one unified roof. That of course is unified communications, a collection of technology solutions that organizations implement to creates an environment for seamless and secure […]

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