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Cisco Webex

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 […]

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Slack Canvas

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 […]

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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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Microsoft Teams Virtual Commute

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 […]

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Microsoft January Patch Tuesday

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 […]

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AI Automation burnout

Microsoft to Exclusively License OpenAI’s GPT-3 Model

Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the groundbreaking autoregressive language model GPT-3.

September 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is partnering with artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI to exclusively license the firm’s autoregressive language model GPT-3. In a blog on Microsoft’s official website, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott said the company will leverage the technical innovation to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for Microsoft customers and create […]

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Avocor 55-inch collaboration displays

Avocor ReleasingThree 55-inch Collaboration Displays

Avocor has released three new 55-inch collaboration displays designed to meet the needs of remote and hybrid work and learning.

September 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Avocor has released three new 55-inch collaboration displays designed to meet the needs of remote and hybrid work as well as distance and in-person learning. According to the company, the displays are designed for home offices, dedicated remote learning areas, huddle rooms and other conferencing spaces across the enterprise. The three new offerings are the […]

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UCaaS, cloud contracts

Cloud Contracts: The Best and the Worst

Cloud contracts are tricky business: you need to be absolutely sure you have an "out" in case of a hard-to-define contract breach.

September 16, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

The pandemic has sparked great interest in cloud contracts, given their flexibility and overall reliability. UCaaS had gone mainstream even before the coronavirus pandemic, which in turn is accelerating this momentum, so that most enterprises are now considering UCaaS and CCaaS (contact center as a service) cloud options. Enterprises absolutely need a solid contract that […]

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Google Meet Mobile Apps

Google Redesigns Meet Mobile Apps

Google is updating the Meet videoconferencing mobile apps for Android and iOS to create a more unified experience with Gmail.

September 14, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Videoconferencing and collaboration apps like Google Meet are, for obvious reasons, crucially important right now. To that end, Google has worked over the last few months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve Meet and better integrate it with Gmail and other G Suite tools. Now, the Google Meet mobile apps for iOS and […]

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