Zoom enables hybrid working and enters new markets
With the opening up of more and more parts of society, hybrid working becomes a reality. Video collaboration platforms play a crucial role in this. Since the beginning of last year, Zoom has taken enormous steps to make their platform as attractive as possible. During Zoomtopia, Zoom's annual event...
Google announces major updates to Workspace for hybrid work
The new features aim to enhance hybrid work environments,with the goal to remove boundaries between coworkers.
Google unveiled a whole list of updates to its collaboration platform Workspace. The new functionalities seek to remove the boundaries between coworkers, regardless of their location. T...
Cisco Webex hits record of 8 billion monthly calls
The milestone coincides with the debut of a suite of new features for the platform.
Cisco Webex this week announced it is now hosting a record eight billion calls monthly across its cloud calling platforms. This is the most of any cloud calling provider, according to Cisco. Cisco has also extend...
Webex gets makeover: to Webex or to Zoom, that’s the question
How do you get a platform like Webex, which fell behind to the competition, back up to date? Cisco may not be there yet, but in the past 12 months it has taken very large steps in the right direction. We discuss the developments of the past year with Jeetu Patel, the SVP at Cisco responsible for (a...
Cisco unleashes a “wave of WebEx innovation”
The move follows Cisco's announcing an agreement to acquire IMImobile and intent to acquire Slido.
Cisco this week announced a wave of acquisitions and innovative Webex enhancements. The new features aim to help organizations better collaborate and transform their employee and customer experienc...
Cisco warns Windows 10 users to patch Webex security flaw
The company advised of an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Webex Meetings Desktop App
Cisco has issued an advisory warning that the bug in Webex Meetings Desktop App for Windows has created a "high-severity" security flaw. Indeed, Cisco has given the bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3588, a se...
Cisco’s video-conferencing app nears 600 million users
Webex, Cisco's video-conferencing app, since September has over 590 million users and is on its way to break the 600 million mark this month. The corona pandemic seems to have played a large part in this growth.
The number of Webex users has been growing steadily since March. Back then, the serv...
Cisco and Avit go all-in on collaboration
Avit Group was founded in 2003 as a specialist in IP telephony and IP networks. In the meantime, in addition to enterprise networking, this expertise has developed into a focus on collaboration tools, the unified workspace and security solutions. Avit has won the Cisco Collaboration Award several t...
Cisco offers delayed payments for companies in dire straits
Cisco is launching a 2.5 billion dollar (2.3 billion euros) financing program that lets customers delay 95 percent of payments until 2021. The measures give companies some necessary breathing space when they are short of money, but need more resources to be able to work from home.
If the financi...
Cisco releases series of Webex updates
Cisco will release a number of updates for Cisco Webex Meetings. The update includes access to live streaming in the Webex Meetings app. Some new video features, improved sound quality and other quality-of-life updates have also been added.
The live streaming feature is available in beta, throug...
Cisco takes on Teams and Slack with Webex
Webex has been around for years and is the standard
conferencing tool in many enterprise organizations. The focus on Cisco Webex
has been significantly less for a number of years, but the tool is completely
back on the radar. Cisco competes with parties like Slack, Teams and Hangouts
like never bef...
Cisco rolls out update for Webex Teams
Cisco has announced a number of updates to Webex Teams, the company's collaboration tool. The update should lead to a consistent user experience on all devices using Webex Teams.
The update should also make Webex Teams more compatible with the design of other Cisco collaboration apps. Among other...