Insurers fear "Zoom accidents" as motorists join meetings behind the wheel

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Insurers will not cover drivers who caused accidents while on their phones

NL Times

Drivers in the Netherlands who cause accidents while using their phones could now face devastating financial consequences under stricter insurance rules. “Texting while driving is not only extremely dangerous but can also have enormous financial consequences,” said Menno Dijcks, an insurance expert with Independer, to AD. “If the accident involves personal injury, costs can quickly climb to tens or even …

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4 weeks ago

Zoom changes its name amid questions over the future of working from home

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Zoom is rebranding, dropping the “Video” from its name and instead pitching itself …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Traffic jam? No problem: Bengaluru woman attends Zoom meeting while riding scooter

Hindustan Times

Bengaluru is infamous for its notorious traffic. Every now and then, pictures and videos of people making the most of their long wait time in Bengaluru traffic gain significant traction on social media. Just a normal day in Bengaluru.” Watch the video here: This, however, is not the first time that an individual is working in Bengaluru traffic. In yet …

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1 year, 2 months ago

600,000 drivers one touch of phone from a ban

The Telegraph

The number of drivers with six and nine points on their licence was 6 per cent and 8 per cent higher than a year earlier, respectively. A loophole allowing drivers to escape punishment for hand-held phone use if they were taking a photograph or playing a game was closed by new legislation in March last year. ‘Distraction’ Nicholas Lyes, IAM …

Drivers

1 year, 2 months ago

Study reveals Zoom backgrounds you should ‘definitely avoid’ to make a good first impression

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A person’s choice of background on video call platforms like Zoom and Microsoft …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Zoom speaks with regulators about Microsoft competition concerns: Report

The Hindu

Zoom Video Communications has met with regulators from the United States, European Union and other jurisdictions to outline concerns about Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behaviour, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Zoom had expressed its concerns about the way Microsoft has given preference to its chat and video app Teams through price bundling and product design, the report added. "If you have …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Zoom wants workers back in office part-time

The Hindu

The company whose name became synonymous with remote work is joining the growing return-to-office trend. Zoom, the video conferencing pioneer, is asking employees who live within a 50-mile radius of its offices to work onsite two days a week, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email. The statement said the company has decided that "a structured hybrid approach – meaning …

Office Work Zoom

1 year, 4 months ago

Zoom says it isn’t training AI on calls without consent. But other data is fair game

Associated Press

An update to Zoom’s terms of service is raising alarm bells on social media, with users claiming it reveals the videoconferencing company is now tapping their online doctor visits and virtual happy hours to train artificial intelligence models. “Don’t try to negotiate with our new overlords.” The company quickly responded with a blog post on Monday stressing that it “will …

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1 year, 4 months ago

At This Point, Zoom Could Use Another Pandemic

Slate

For a while, Zoom was the most important company in America. Take a look at some recent headlines: • Over the weekend, full-stack developer Alex Ivanovs noted on his Stack Diary platform that Zoom had updated its terms of service, with language assuming automatic user consent for the company’s utilization of “Customer Content” and “Service Generated Data” for “machine learning, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Zoom, which thrived on the remote work revolution, wants workers back in the office part-time

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The company whose name became synonymous with remote work is joining the growing return-to-office trend. Zoom, the video conferencing pioneer, is asking employees who live within a 50-mile radius of its offices to work onsite two days a week, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email. The statement said the company has decided that “a structured hybrid …

Office Remote Work Zoom Work Revolution

1 year, 4 months ago

Zoom calls employees back to office, users express surprise on X

India TV News

Video conferencing platform Zoom has made a significant decision to end its work-from-home policy and has requested all employees to return to the office for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. According to Insider, Zoom is adopting a hybrid model, mandating employees who live within 50 miles of any Zoom office to work in person at least two …

Employees Office Remote Work Work Zoom

1 year, 4 months ago

Even Zoom is calling employees back to the office

LA Times

Zoom, based in San Jose, is requiring employees who live near a company office to be on-site two days a week. Employees who live near a Zoom location must be on-site two days a week, a company spokesperson said. A “hybrid approach” is most effective for Zoom, she said, because it will be in “a better position to use our …

Zoom Remote Office

1 year, 6 months ago

Google Meet To Come With 'On-the-Go' Mode Soon: All Details

News 18

Google is reportedly working on a new ‘On-the-Go’ mode for the video communication service ‘Meet’, which will make it safer and easier for users to stay in a video call while walking. Users will receive a prompt to switch to the travel-friendly mode if Google Meet detects that they are walking. Earlier this month, the company had started to roll …

Google Meet Google Meet Mode Soon

2 years, 1 month ago

Google Meet and Zoom brings Interoperability

India TV News

Zoom and Google Meet have brought in a new feature of interoperability- which is the cross-platform connection for better reach, post listening to user complaints. Google has confirmed to integrate the bi-directional access for Zoom calls from Google Meet. This means that Google Meet users can join the Zoom calls, and Zoom users could connect with Meet calls, for a …

Google Meet Google Meet Zoom Calls Brings Interoperability

2 years, 1 month ago

This is why Google and Zoom are joining hands

Live Mint

Google announces to run Meet on multiple platforms including Zoom, later this year in 2022. Zoom Rooms and Google Meet devices will both be able to join Google Meet meetings, either directly from the calendar of a Zoom Room or Google Meet device or by entering a meeting code, the technology giant said in a blogpost. On all ChromeOS- based …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Do you regularly attend Zoom meets? This Centre advisory is meant for you

Hindustan Times

The Narendra Modi government has issued an advisory to the users of video-conferencing platform Zoom. The advisory of medium severity by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, a nodal agency under the ministry of electronics and information technology has flagged ‘multiple vulnerabilities' in Zoom products. The CERT-IN advisory expressed concerns that a successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote …

Zoom Join Advisory Meeting Platform

2 years, 3 months ago

Zoom introduces new feature for edge over Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx: Report

Hindustan Times

Video conferencing platform Zoom said it is renaming and bringing new features to its Chat product, making it a more collaborative software in a bid to compete with rivals like Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx. The upgraded software brings together messaging, file sharing, third-party integrations, video, voice, and whiteboard in one place to make team working more convenient, Zoom said …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Zoom adopts new measures to bring more users: Renames chat feature and more

Live Mint

Zoom Video Communications Inc, a video conferencing platform said on Monday that it has renamed its chat product and added some features, including third party integration, as it looks to compete with rivals including Microsoft's Teams and Slack. The video calling app’s calling feature, now known as Zoom Team Chat, will also include features such as the ability to share …

Video Zoom Cent Chat

2 years, 4 months ago

Zoom can’t escape its own shadow

Live Mint

BY DAN GALLAGHER | UPDATED AUG 23, 2022 07:03 AM EDT Videoconferencing star’s growth falls to single digits as enterprise growth can’t fully offset consumer decline Fiscal second-quarter results late Monday from Zoom Video Communications were the toughest yet for the videoconferencing provider. The pandemic rapidly remade Zoom’s business; the consumer segment went from being one-third the size of the …

Zoom Quarter Enterprise Growth

3 years, 2 months ago

Interpol launches online cyber security awareness campaign

The Hindu

The Interpol has launched an online campaign to apprise people of major cyber threats in order to help them protect their computer systems, networks and personal information from cyber criminals. “Whether it’s in a business or personal setting, Interpol wants you to remember that cybercrime is often just a single click, tap or swipe away,” it said. “It will highlight …

Campaign Cyber Interpol

3 years, 4 months ago

Zoom reaches $85 million settlement over user privacy, ‘Zoombombing’

The Hindu

Zoom Video Communications Inc agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated users' privacy rights by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, and letting hackers disrupt Zoom meetings in a practice called Zoombombing. Zoom agreed to security measures including alerting users when meeting hosts or other participants use third-party …

Zoom User Koh Zoom Meetings Zoombombing

3 years, 4 months ago

Zoom reaches $85 mn settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, ’Zoombombing’

Live Mint

Zoom Video Communications Inc agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated users' privacy rights by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, and letting hackers disrupt Zoom meetings in a practice called Zoombombing. Zoom agreed to security measures including alerting users when meeting hosts or other participants use third-party …

Zoom Koh Zoom Meetings Zoombombing Mn Settlement Million Settle

3 years, 4 months ago

Public access expanded during the pandemic. Why do some cities want to take it away?

LA Times

San Diego County intends to keep the online options introduced during the pandemic. Gavin Newsom issued March 12, 2020, that allowed local legislative bodies to hold public meetings by teleconferencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it required the meetings to be “accessible telephonically or otherwise electronically to all members of the public.” The order allowed agencies to waive a …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Even the chief executive of Zoom says he has ‘Zoom fatigue’

The Independent

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3 years, 9 months ago

Citi launches Zoom-Free Fridays, but there’s a catch

CNN

New York CNN Business — Citigroup is launching “Zoom-Free Fridays” as a way to help the bank’s burned-out employees cope with stress a year into the pandemic. “The blurring of lines between home and work and the relentlessness of the pandemic workday have taken a toll on our well-being,” Citi CEO Jane Fraser wrote in a Monday memo to all …

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3 years, 9 months ago

A Year of Working from Home. This is How Zoom Calls have Affected Our Brains

News 18

We have passed a year since the initial Covid-19 shutdowns. Zoom has become a huge part of today’s work flow, with a 470% increase in customers having more than 10 employees from this time last year, the company says. A Stanford analysis explains with a breakdown of the four causes of “zoom fatigue.” You don’t expect primordial instincts to kick …

Zoom Bailenson

3 years, 9 months ago

Online Term plans haven’t kept pace with Motor peers

Live Mint

If we keep auto insurance aside and study the few sectors that have done really well on digital experience globally, we realize we still have a long way to go, especially with regards to serving customers looking for term and health insurance policies. What else could explain the abysmal conversions insurance platforms get, despite an online experience, listing of the …

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3 years, 9 months ago

The Rudest Things You Can Do During A Work Zoom Meeting

Huff Post

damircudic/Getty "As much as possible, create space to be fully present and keep interruptions to a minimum," says life etiquette expert Juliet Mitchell. “The moment you click ‘Join Meeting,’ you know you are potentially being seen by dozens of faces staring at you,” Patricia Rossi, a civility expert, keynote speaker and author of “Everyday Etiquette,” told HuffPost. Not Using The …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it

LA Times

During the pandemic, the phrase “Zoom fatigue” became part of our vocabulary. “On Zoom, you’re getting eye contact 100% of the time, regardless of whether you’re speaking,” Bailenson said in an interview. Even though the gaze in that study was “socially fake” in the same way that people aren’t really staring directly at you over Zoom, it felt “perceptively real,” …

Zoom Eye Contact Bailenson On Zoom

3 years, 11 months ago

Google Meet and Duo Hosted Over One Trillion Minutes of Video Calls in 2020

News 18

Google?s video conferencing platforms Duo and Meet hosted over one trillion minutes of video calls globally this year. Similarly, Google Duo received features such as doodle on video calls alongside several AR filters. Some of the notable features that Duo received this year are 32-user support for Android users, desktop calling, and a new video codec technology for better audio …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom's new security features to manage unruly meeting participants

The Hindu

Zoom has released new security enhancements that allow meeting hosts and co-hosts to remove and report unruly meeting participants. Using 'suspend participant activities' feature meeting hosts and co-hosts can now temporarily pause their meeting and remove an unmanageable participant. The video conferencing platform has also introduced a feature that allows meeting participants to report a disruptive user directly by clicking …

Zoom New Features Feature Participant Unruly Meeting

4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom to Lift 40-Minute Free Meeting Limit on Thanksgiving Day

The Quint

Video conferencing app Zoom has announced to lift its 40-minute limit on free video chats for Thanksgiving Day, to help friends and family spend more time together virtually on the US holiday. Many of Zoom's competitors have similar restrictions for the free and basic plans, including Google Meet with a 60-minute limit and Cisco Webex 50-minute limit. Zoom Video Communications …

Zoom Free Video

4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom Healthcare Customers Now Getting New Features Like Zoom Chat, Phone and More

News 18

Zoom, the video conferencing company has announced a bunch of new features for its healthcare customers to improve telehealth services amid the COVID 19 pandemic. The company is now adding features like Zoom Chat, Zoom record sessions to the cloud, and Zoom Phone for HD voice calling solution via the internet for healthcare customers. All the new features for organisations …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom announces new features for healthcare organisations

The Hindu

Zoom has announced new features that will allow healthcare organisations to communicate more effectively using its platform. Using Zoom Chat, healthcare organisations will be able to communicate quickly and securely, and with Zoom’s advanced chat encryption only the intended recipient can read the secured message, Zoom noted in a blog post. For privacy and security, the features allow organisations to …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom to enhance security as part of proposed U.S. settlement with FTC

The Hindu

Zoom Video Communications Inc must implement a new information security program as part of its proposed settlement with U.S. regulators over user privacy issues, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday. It said Zoom's misleading claims about giving users a secure channel of communication while offering a lower level of protection gave them a false sense of security. “Zoom's security …

Zoom Ftc

4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom releases a new Single Sign-On authentication feature to make online classes more secure

Firstpost

Every student asking to join a meeting will be properly identified using the name of the identity provider or IDP. Popular video conferencing application Zoom has released an external authentication feature to keep the online classrooms safe. In order to join a Zoom meeting thereafter, students would have to authenticate against their school identity system or SSO provider first. Summing …

Students Zoom Sso Every Student

4 years, 2 months ago

Google Meet will no longer let users host meetings beyond 60 minutes

India Today

Video-conferencing app Google Meet has announced that the free version of the app will only let users host meetings for 60 minutes and not more than that. Along with the cap on meetings, Google will also limit access to some of the advanced G-Suite features such as allowing over 250 participants, live streaming, and saving meeting recordings to Google Drive, …

60 Minutes Google Meet Meetings Google Users Host

4 years, 4 months ago

Harsh Goenka shares tip on what to do if you’re tired of Zoom meetings. Watch

Hindustan Times

The pandemic has drastically changed people’s working model and working from home is the new reality for many. For them, business tycoon Harsh Goenka has a tip that’s both hilarious and impressive. “If you are tired of attending Zoom meetings like me, here’s what you do,” Harsh Goenka tweeted. “If you are tired of attending Zoom meetings like me, here’s …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Video Meetings Lined Up? Zoom Wants To Be Everywhere & This Is How Zoom Will Be On Smart Displays

News 18

Over the last few months, Zoom has done what not many brands have been able to do before it. Up next, smart displays, which means it’s coming for Amazon Echo, Google Nest Hub and Facebook Portal displays. This is the latest expansion of the company’s Zoom for Home program which will see support for Zoom video calls and Zoom meetings …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Zoom security flaw meant random people could have spied on your calls

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A security flaw with Zoom meant hackers could enter password-protected calls "in a …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Zoom and hold: working from home is here to stay, researchers find

Dutch News

More home working and meetings by video link are likely to be trends that outlast the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say. The proportion of people working from home has dipped to less than half since the lockdown restrictions were eased at the beginning of May, but 45% of people said they were doing more work from home than before the crisis. …

4 years, 5 months ago

Zoom unveils $600 video conferencing device for home workers

Daily Mail

Zoom has announced a dedicated video-conferencing device aimed specifically at home workers and retailing for a whopping $600. The new Zoom for Home device has a multi-touch display, three wide-angle cameras for HD video calls, integrated speakers and an eight-microphone array for clearer audio As a second screen, home users are given a whole extra display for video calls, meaning …

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Insurers fear "Zoom accidents" as motorists join meetings behind the wheel

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