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Report: Regional Accents Affect Intelligent Virtual Assistants

A recently published report suggests that regional accents may affect the speech recognition ability of virtual assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant and others.

July 28, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

If someone has ever asked what time the Bruins’ game was at the “Gahden” to intelligent virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana or Google Assistant and gotten an odd response, the regional accent could be the problem. The U.S. has a range of accents that include the famous “Boston” accent, which people imitate by saying, […]

Campus IT: Do Your Buildings Suffer from These Common School Safety Issues?

July 27, 2020 Guest Authors Leave a Comment

Some schools will soon reopen in the fall — at whatever capacity they can in the wake of COVID-19 — yet many still suffer from alarmingly common school safety issues. Many school districts hire security consultants to do walkthroughs of their campuses to look for security risks. These assessments often consist of two parts: the physical assessment of each school […]

Four Domes Pavilion Museum Technology Creates Artistic Immersion

A Renkus-Heinz and Dante museum technology solution at the Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław, Poland creates an immersive artistic experience.

July 27, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

The Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław, Poland is a historic building offering visitors a view into the art of today. Built in 1921, the pavilion serves as home to the Museum of Contemporary Art branch of Poland’s National Museum. The collection is one of Poland’s most cherished – housing more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, […]

My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 92: InfiniteMD and the Rise of Telehealth and Virtual Consultations

Chris Lee, co-founder of digital health company InfiniteMD, joins the podcast to talk about how the company connects patients to physicians remotely.

July 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Chris Lee, co-founder of digital health company InfiniteMD, joins the podcast to talk about how the company connects patients to physicians remotely.

School Security Systems are Failing: Here’s How to Fix Them

Three common school security systems failures and five ways IT managers and other tech decision makers can avoid them with smart investments.

July 24, 2020 Matthew Stevens Leave a Comment

Schools across the country implement various school security systems to respond to emergencies. But as tech innovates, so should those solutions. Effective ones must protect against the most extreme crises as well as more common incidents school staff respond to every day. Districts also must prepare for the increased occurrence of medical and behavioral situations when […]

Slack EU Complaint: Microsoft Teams is Illegally Tied to Office Suite

Slack has filed a European Union complaint against Slack, griping about Microsoft's market dominance and claiming Teams is illegally tied to the Office suite.

July 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack announced Wednesday that it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft in the European Union alleging illegal and anti-competitive practices and stomping out competition in breach of European Union law. Specifically, Slack’s complaint alleges that Microsoft has illegally tied Teams – its flagship unified communications and collaboration app and a direct competitor to Slack’s […]

New Girl Scouts Badges Award STEM Career Exploration and More

Girl Scouts of Kentucky Wilderness Road is offering badges in automotive engineering, STEM career exploration, and entrepreneurship.

July 23, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Girl Scouts of the USA are launching 24 opportunities “designed to help Kentucky [scouts] practice ambitious leadership in the crucial areas of automotive engineering, STEM career exploration, entrepreneurship, and civics.” The press release notes many of these career paths “are male-dominated” and these badges are an attempt to expose young girls to the opportunities in those fields […]

New Cloud PBX UCaaS from OnePath

Onepath Cloud PBX is an enterprise-grade, hardware-free service that allows companies to equip staff with the tools to engage customers and colleagues.

July 22, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Onepath Cloud PBX is an enterprise-grade, hardware-free service that allows companies to equip staff with the tools to engage customers and colleagues.

How to Choose the Right Integration Partner for Your Organization

Your business requirements, security, payment model and long-term plans should all be taken into consideration when choosing a systems integrator firm.

July 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Finding a systems integrator to help with your IT infrastructure is one of the most important technological moves your organization will take, and it should not be taken lightly. For IT managers overseeing this partnership, this means that the technology provider should be expected to meet certain benchmarks, fit the organization’s needs, demonstrate a bulletproof […]

NYT Publishes Inside Account of Massive Twitter Hack

Last week's massive Bitcoin scheme on Twitter was apparently the work of four young individuals and not a nation state, according to the New York Times.

July 21, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Remember a few days ago when some of the most prominent public figures took to Twitter to ask for Bitcoin in exchange for doubling your money? If you haven’t heard yet, that was fake. No, Joe Biden, Barrack Obama, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Warren Buffett or even Elon Musk didn’t ask for the digital currency. […]