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...
Cisco acquires Voicea to bring transcription and analytics to WebEx
Cisco has announced that it is taking over Voicea. This specialist offers real-time transcripts of meetings, speech search and highlights. The tools must be added to the WebEx platform.
WebEx is currently used by more than 130 million people per month. With the acquisition of Voicea, Cisco says t...
Cisco makes WebEx smarter and takes on Slack and Microsoft Teams
Cisco focuses on smart software in an attempt to compete with rivals such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. The company wants to upgrade WebEx, a collaboration tool for businesses, by combining facial recognition technology with automatically generated personal profiles.
The purpose of the extension is ...
Cisco launches new cognitive collaboration features for Webex
Cisco has launched a range of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven features for Webex. Webex is a videoconferencing tool that is used by about 130 million people per month. The new features should help users to more easily set up meetings and easily find out more about the people they are meeting...
Cisco expands Webex with cloud-based PBX
Cisco has recently expanded its Webex collaboration tools to include a full cloud-based PBX, including the corresponding app. In addition, teams will soon be able to use new Webex meeting applications in small meeting rooms that are specially designed for this purpose..
With the Cisco BroadCloudCall...