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Amazon One Palm Recognition

Amazon to Make Its Amazon One Palm Recognition Technology Available to Third Parties

Amazon is expanding the use of its Amazon One palm recognition system at its stores and is planning to make it available to third parties.

October 6, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Imagine walking into a store and instead of pulling out your wallet or credit card, you use your palm to pay for items. Maybe you’re headed to the stadium to watch your favorite but realize you left your tickets at home and you’re unable to pull them up on your phone. Or, you left your […]

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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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Smart Building Assessment

Telecomm Industry Association Launches Smart Building Assessment Program

SPIRE Smart Building Assessment designed to help building owners and operators make better informed investment decisions, more.

October 5, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, have announced the SPIRE Smart Building Program, said to be the first-and-only objective assessment and rating program for smart buildings. Created in a partnership between the two organizations, SPIRE provides an assessment of connected technologies within buildings, delivering insights, benchmarks and […]

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dealership video wall

Lexus Dealership Video Wall

Dealership video walls need to provide an elevated experience with an environment that immediately grasps customer attention and entices them to purchase. 

October 5, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Hendrick Lexus of Pleasanton, California is the premier Lexus dealer in the Northern California Bay Area. This 2019 Elite of Lexus dealership award-winner is part of the Hendrick Automotive Group, one of the largest privately held automotive retail organizations in the U.S. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company has automotive operations in 14 states. […]

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Salesforce Work.com for Vaccines

Salesforce Launches Work.com for Vaccines

Work.com for Vaccines is a new tool designed to help governments and healthcare organizations manage vaccine programs safety and efficiently.

October 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Salesforce has announced Work.com for Vaccines, a new tool to help governments and healthcare organizations manage vaccine programs safety and efficiently. The new technology, announced earlier this week, will give customers an end-to-end process by which they can design, build and manage vaccine programs at scale. It’s built on Work.com, Salesforce’s COVID-19 response solution that […]

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Passable app, digital hall pass

Passable is a Student-Created Hall Pass App Built for COVID Times

Passable app now helps with social distancing and contact tracing and was originally created by two students as a digital hall pass.

October 2, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Two students created a school safet  app that aids in contact tracing and social distancing measures as schools continue to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. Samuel Crombie, a sophomore at Dartmouth College and Martin County High School (Fla.) graduate, and his friend Joseph Semrai, currently a junior at Martin County High, had already developed an innovative app prior to the […]

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Microsoft Outages

Microsoft Services Suffer Two Major Global Outages in One Week

Key Microsoft services were down for several hours on two separate occasions this week just days after announcing dozens of new features at Ignite.

October 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft did not have a very good week, as on two separate occasions critical services were down worldwide for several hours. The latest was early Thursday morning when Outlook was down for several hours due to what Microsoft says was an issue caused by a “configuration update.” It comes just days after a host of […]

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