Collaborate Disseminate
When Verizon (which owns this publication) announced it was buying video conferencing company BlueJeans for around $500 million last month, you probably thought it was going take awhile to bake, but the companies announced today that they has closed the deal. While it’s crystal clear that video conferencing is a hot item during the pandemic, […] Continue reading Verizon wraps up BlueJeans acquisition lickety split
While Jackbox clearly owes a great deal of its current popularity to the shelter-in-place policies, they/ve also been honing their craft for years. It’s worth looking at what makes them work. Continue reading All product creators can learn something from Jackbox Games’ user experiences
Phishers are using fake Microsoft Teams notification emails to trick users into sharing their Microsoft Teams and Office 365 login credentials. “Should the recipient fall victim to this attack, this user’s credentials would be compromised. Additi… Continue reading Fake Microsoft Teams notification emails are hitting inboxes
Okta released a special COVID-19 edition of its app usage report today, and you don’t need a Ph. D. in statistics to guess what they found. Indeed, Zoom surged 110% on the Okta network, leading the way in usage growth just as you would expect, but another whole class of tools besides collaboration also saw […] Continue reading Okta COVID-19 app usage report finds it’s not just collaboration seeing a huge uptick
Since many of us can no longer have face-to-face chats with family and friends, we’ve turned to online video meetups. Though Zoom has attracted a good share of those wanting to get together online, the service has suffered recent criticism over securit… Continue reading Google opens up free access to Meet video conferencing for everyone
Google Cloud today announced it’s making Google Meet, Google’s premium video-conferencing solution, free for everyone with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for M… Continue reading Google Meet: Video meetings built on a secure foundation, soon free for everyone
To help individuals and organizations choose video call apps that suit their needs and their risk appetite, Mozilla has released a new “Privacy Not Included” report that focuses on video call apps. The report includes the following popular … Continue reading Which video call apps should you use if you care about privacy?
Video conferencing calls have quickly become a mainstay of socializing in 2020, and now Facebook is throwing its sizeable hat in the ring with a new service called Messenger Rooms. It carries a lot of the same functionality as Zoom and other video conf… Continue reading Facebook launches a Zoom rival with immersive video backgrounds
Proofpoint researchers have spotted and documented email phishing campaigns targeting US companies in a variety of industries with emails impersonating Zoom and Cisco (WebEx). Phishing emails impersonating Zoom and WebEx “Video conferencing has become … Continue reading Phishers exploit Zoom, WebEx brands to target businesses
It would be easy to assume that Verizon’s purchase last week of video-conferencing tool BlueJeans was an opportunistic move to capitalize on the sudden shift to remote work, but the ball began rolling last June and has implications far beyond current work-from-home requirements. The video-chat darling of the moment is Zoom, but BlueJeans is considered […] Continue reading Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend