As Zoom Booms Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance

Numerous instances of online conferences being disrupted by pornographic images, hate speech or even threats can be mitigated using some platform tools. Continue reading As Zoom Booms Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance

As Zoom Booms Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance

Numerous instances of online conferences being disrupted by pornographic images, hate speech or even threats can be mitigated using some platform tools. Continue reading As Zoom Booms Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance

Smashing Security #171: WhatsApp hoaxes, Zoombombs, and 8-bit love

Blackmailers are threatening to infect your family with Coronavirus, trolls are making Zoom an unsafe place for those of a sensitive disposition, and what is the mysterious Dr Negrin audio message spreading on WhatsApp?
All this and much more is discus… Continue reading Smashing Security #171: WhatsApp hoaxes, Zoombombs, and 8-bit love

Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app

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

Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk

Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response  the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. It’s applying the policy to all staff, regardless of location. Late yesterday Box co-founder Aaron Levie tweeted a statement detailing the cloud computing company’s response to COVID-19 — to, as […] Continue reading Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk

China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, a post from Sequoia Capital sounding the alarm of the coronavirus’s impact on businesses is reaching far corners of tech communities around the world, […] Continue reading China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak

Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack

In the old days of enterprise software, when companies like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft ruled the roost, there was a tendency to shop from a single vendor. You bought the whole stack, which made life easier for IT — even if it didn’t always work out so well for end users, who were stuck using […] Continue reading Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack