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District Tap Sports Bar 4K Video Distribution

This sports bar's 4K video distribution solution relies on Mediatune to allow dozens of TVs to be managed by a single person with lightning speed.

November 16, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

When the owners of the District Tap sports bar in Indianapolis decided to open a second location in the city’s downtown area, they identified one crucial technology upgrade that would enhance the guest experience and greatly simplify daily operations for staff: 4K IP video distribution. The Tech Decision According to Matt Reeve of Millennium Sounds, […]

Avaya Redesigns Vantage Desktop Device For Remote Workers

Avaya has released a redesign of its Avaya Vantage desktop device for remote workers that includes a high-definition videoconferencing camera, microphones.

November 10, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Avaya has released a redesign of its Avaya Vantage desktop device for remote workers that includes a high-definition videoconferencing camera, wide-band audio, and four microphones. The device – which allows for collaboration and conferencing without an endpoint device like a laptop – integrates with the company’s Avaya Spaces meeting and collaboration app. The new Avaya […]

Google Begins Rolling Out Virtual Backgrounds in Meet

Google Meet users will soon be able to select from virtual background templates or upload their own image to replace their background during video calls.

November 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google Meet has now caught up with other videoconferencing and collaboration platforms with the company’s rollout of custom virtual backgrounds for video calls. Google in a Friday blog post announced the feature, which allows users to either select one of Google’s hand-picked backgrounds or upload their own image. Google’s backgrounds include office spaces, landscapes and […]

Schools Have to Address These Distance Learning Cybersecurity Threats

As administrators struggle to ensure connectivity and accessibility, many aren’t addressing distance learning cybersecurity threats.

October 22, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Perhaps no single industry has struggled to adjust more to COVID-19 than education. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the broad adoption of e-learning solutions. Those school districts that invested in robust IT systems have been validated and are continuing to build out their resources. Meanwhile, those districts that did not already have e-learning technologies in […]

Virtual Events, Apps, SDKs Coming to Zoom

Zoomtopia included announcements of new products and features like virtual events, Zoom apps, SDKs, UC enhancements and more.

October 16, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In addition to its phased approach to rolling out an end-to-end encryption offering to better secure calls, Zoom announced several new products and features during its fourth annual Zoomtopia. The event, held virtually this year, comes as the platform is experiencing a gargantuan increase in users due to the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work. That […]

Cisco Releases New Features, Devices for Webex

Cisco is announced new Webex features and devices that make it easy to connect with remote workers and enable a healthy return to the office.

October 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cisco is introducing new features and devices for Webex that aim to improve the videoconferencing experience, help remote workers stay connected and employees return to the office safely. The new features come as a new global survey finds the overwhelming majority of workers are uncomfortable about returning to the office, a future dependency on remote […]

Slack CEO: Stories, Instant Audio Coming To Slack By End Of 2020

With videoconferencing fatigue setting in, Slack is eyeing ways to help teams connect and collaborate without having to hop on a long video call.

October 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is reportedly adding new features to its platform that will introduce social media-like stories and push-to-talk audio by the end of the calendar year. In an interview with The Verge, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield detailed some of the new features the platform wants to bring to its users to help them better acclimate to […]

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 […]

Miss Your Commute? Microsoft is Bringing a Virtual Commute Feature to Teams.

Microsoft Teams will soon offer a virtual commute feature that can help users prepare for the day and unwind after a long one.

October 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you’ve been working from home for the last 6-plus months, you likely haven’t been driving much. I fire up my car every now and then to go to the store or just to get out of the area for a few days. But for the most part, she sits in the driveway untouched. My […]

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 […]