How to Blur Your Background in a Zoom Call
In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to easily blur your background in a Zoom call as well as how to set a background image. Continue reading How to Blur Your Background in a Zoom Call
Category Archives: web conferencing
How to Blur Your Background in a Zoom Call
In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to easily blur your background in a Zoom call as well as how to set a background image. Continue reading How to Blur Your Background in a Zoom Call
Google Workspace opens up spaces for all users
Google is tying everything together with a handbook for navigating hybrid work, which includes best practice blueprints for five common hybrid meetings. Continue reading Google Workspace opens up spaces for all users
Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue
Vowel’s meeting operating system has the goal of making meetings more useful before, during and after. Continue reading Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue
Box, Zoom chief product officers discuss how the changing workplace drove their latest collaboration
Their newest collaboration is the Box app for Zoom, a new type of in-product integration that allows users to bring apps into a Zoom meeting to provide the full Box experience. Continue reading Box, Zoom chief product officers discuss how the changing workplace drove their latest collaboration
PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones
From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space. Over the past several months investors have bankrolled a handful of video startups with specific niches, ranging from always-on office surveillance to platforms that encouraged plenty of mini calls to avoid the need […] Continue reading PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones
Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features
It’s (virtual) Microsoft Ignite this week, Microsoft’s annual IT-centric conference and its largest, with more than 26,000 people attending the last in-person event in 2019. Given its focus, it’s no surprise that Microsoft Teams is taking center stage in the announcements this year. Teams, after all, is now core to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Today’s announcements […] Continue reading Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features
Google is making Meet free for everyone
Google today announced that it is making Meet, its video meeting tool for businesses that directly competes with the likes of Zoom, available for free to everyone. Until now, you could participate in a Meet call without being a paying user, but you needed a paid G Suite account to start calls. You won’t be […] Continue reading Google is making Meet free for everyone
Verizon is buying B2B videoconferencing firm BlueJeans
US carrier Verizon* has splashed out to buy veteran B2B videoconferencing platform, BlueJeans Network — shelling out less than $500 million on the acquisition, according to the Wall Street Journal which first reported the news. A Verizon spokeswoman confirmed to TechCrunch that the price-tag is sub-$500M but did not provide a more exact figure. Videoconferencing […] Continue reading Verizon is buying B2B videoconferencing firm BlueJeans
Video: Zoom Researcher Details Web Conference Security Risks, 2020 Threats
Maya Horowitz with Check Point Research discussed recently-disclosed Zoom vulnerabilities that could have opened up web conferencing meetings to hackers. Continue reading Video: Zoom Researcher Details Web Conference Security Risks, 2020 Threats