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Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly-shared video calls. Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID, since these may be guessed or reused. Meanwhile, it will change virtual waiting rooms to be on by default so hosts have to manually admit attendees. […] Continue reading Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in touch while staying productive are forced to juggle tabs. Meanwhile, call participants often look and sound far away, dwarfed by their background and drowned in […] Continue reading Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app
The company that wants to move fast and break things is moving in! Continue reading Hey Portal, what’s that Facebook device in my kitchen?
Slack, the workplace collaboration platform with 1.25 million paying users and 4 million overall, is adding one more key feature to its artillery of tools for people to communicate with each other, and it’s one that could help it pick up even more users away from other services like Skype and gmail: it’s adding video calling, the audiovisual complement to the audio chat… Read More Continue reading Slack swipes at Skype with video calls and reaction emoji
Hangouts tried, but Duo could be the easiest way to make video calls between Android and iPhone. Continue reading Duo Is the Cross-Platform Video Calling App Google Should Have Made Years Ago