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Google Meet video calls to now adapt to internet speed at home

Google has released new Chrome OS updates that will help students run video calls at home while using apps like Google Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides and other tools

Otter to live transcribe Google Meet calls with new Chrome extension

The popular automated transcription service Otter.ai can now transcribe Google Meet calls in real time with a new Chrome extension.

Google Meet, Duo hosted over 1 trillion minutes of video calls

Google Duo and Google Meet hosted over one trillion minutes of video calls globally -- equal to more than 18 billion hour-long virtual workouts in a single year

Microsoft announces 'together mode' viewing option for Skype: Report

'Together mode' is a viewing option that makes it appear as if all meeting participants are located in the same physically shared space instead of via a traditional grid view.

Zoom's Christmas gift: No cap on call length for free users during holidays

This covers the Christian celebrations of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the end of Hannukah for Jews and Kwanzaa marked by African-Americans, as well as New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

Stimulus package for e-courts

Since the Budget season is coming soon, the central and state governments must consider the new costs of virtual courts

Microsoft Teams platform reaches 115 million daily active users: Nadella

Microsoft Teams platform has reached 115 million daily active users and the company is seeing increased usage intensity as people communicate, collaborate and co-author contents across work, life

Google Meet to continue unlimited calls in free plan till March 2021

Google is now extending that policy and free Meet users can host longer calls through March 2021

No water-cooler gossip, but you may soon get the feel of your office in WFH

Through its Together Mode, Microsoft Teams lets participants share a virtual space like conference room, auditorium and coffee shop in a group video call meeting

Zoom to build customised products for education, medicine segments

Plans to launch 'most secured' version with best in class security algorithms by year-end

Now see up to 49 people, including yourself, in Google Meet

Google has introduced a new feature in its Meet app where the users can now see up to 49 people at the same time in the auto and tiled layout options

Meet the Tamil Nadu-born techie who is helping Zoom connect the world

Velchamy Sankarlingam, who heads the firm's engineering and product dept, reports directly to CEO Eric S Yuan, who was his colleague at WebEx

What your Zoom background says about you

Is there no 'normal' background? Sure there is

$4 bn in hours: Zoom CEO's wealth soars as revenue jumps 355% in Q2

Shares of his virtual-meeting company surged as much as 26 per cent to $410 in late US trading as it reported a jump in quarterly revenue and suggested the explosive growth will continue.

BS Reads: The maturing of the video call

Video conferencing has brought about a cultural shift in how we conduct business. The platforms' sophisticated features have removed most glitches, but people still yearn for human contact

Zoom says most service restored after US users hit by partial outage

Zoom's stock has risen more than eight-fold since its initial public offering last year and four-fold so far in 2020, but it fell as much as 5.4% in early Monday

Techgentsia: A village-based video conferencing start-up's Zoom challenge

Techgentsia is determined to expand its presence to both Indian and international markets

Google is planning to replace Duo video calling app with Meet: Report

Google recently announced that Meet's peak daily usage grew by 30 times with three billion minutes of video meetings and almost three million new users

Microsoft Teams allows 20,000 participants in video meeting call: Know more

The Teams will get SIP phone calling features in the first of 2021 with support from Cisco, Yealink, Polycom, and others

Lauk: Now, a 'purely made in India' video conferencing app for Indians

A video conferencing and web streaming platform and solution, Lauk claims to have been made purely in India for Indians