No, it doesn’t need to be a Zoom
3 years, 6 months ago

No, it doesn’t need to be a Zoom

Wired  

Sravya Attaluri’s design studio is one of the many new businesses created during the pandemic. Founded in Hong Kong because Attaluri was trapped there due to Covid-19 and travel bans, the studio’s six employees are scattered across the world – in India, Hong Kong and the United States. They also began to resent appearing on camera every day: they’d got into a habit of using video calls because it was nice to see each other’s faces. “The past 15 months has shown that simply transferring meetings from conference rooms to dining rooms via video does not really deliver what workers hope to have as an outcome from a new way of working,” says Stuart Templeton, Slack’s UK chief, which obviously has an interest in more of us using its services compared to Zoom. For one thing, we’re engaged in an unnaturally large amount of eye contact, which can prove exhausting, according to Jeremy Bailenson professor at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

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Zoom has changed its name – and now it wants to change the way the whole world works
1 month, 1 week ago

Zoom has changed its name – and now it wants to change the way the whole world works

The Independent  

“It was as if a photograph had suddenly come to life and begun to talk, smile, nod its head and look this way and that,” the New York Times wrote in 1927, following a demonstration at Bell Telephone Laboratories in which Herbert Hoover appeared on a screen. The early research that Hoover was showing off at Bell Labs eventually gave …

Zoom changes its name amid questions over the future of working from home
1 month, 2 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 …

WhatsApp video calling gets new features, now you will no longer need Zoom, Google Meet
6 months, 4 weeks ago

WhatsApp video calling gets new features, now you will no longer need Zoom, Google Meet

India TV News  

WhatsApp has further improved its video calling feature with the addition of new features. Meta-owned platform has added three new features, which include a new screen-sharing feature, a higher participant count, and a speaker spotlight. The latest WhatsApp update also includes a feature called speaker spotlight, which automatically highlights the person talking during a video call and brings them to …

Zoom bets on new features in a bid to dominate videoconferencing
1 year, 3 months ago

Zoom bets on new features in a bid to dominate videoconferencing

LA Times  

Zoom said collaborative document editing, similar to Google Docs, will be made available in the app next year. Zoom Video Communications is adding word processing to its suite of tools and experimenting with novel features for meetings as it faces steep competition from Microsoft Corp.’s Teams. Collaborative document editing, similar to Alphabet’s Google Docs, will be made available in Zoom …

Study reveals Zoom backgrounds you should ‘definitely avoid’ to make a good first impression
1 year, 3 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 …

Work dynamics are changing with focus on flexibility, productivity: Zoom official
1 year, 4 months ago

Work dynamics are changing with focus on flexibility, productivity: Zoom official

Deccan Chronicle  

It was the ubiquitous app on most mobiles phones and personal computers during the Covid period. They will also evolve as employees are seeking newer options for data presentation, storage, transmission and archiving,” says Sameer Raje, general manager and head, India and SAARC, Zoom, who showcased the Zoom capabilities in Hyderabad. What Zoom has: Zoom IQ: A smart companion for …

Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data
1 year, 5 months ago

Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data

Wired  

Recently, Zoom amended its terms of service to grant itself the right to use any assets—such as video recordings, audio transcripts, or shared files—either uploaded or generated by "users" or "customers." Then, the company added to its terms of service that "notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video, or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models …

Zoom wants workers back in office part-time
1 year, 5 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 …

Zoom says it isn’t training AI on calls without consent. But other data is fair game
1 year, 5 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 …

At This Point, Zoom Could Use Another Pandemic
1 year, 5 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, …

Zoom, which thrived on the remote work revolution, wants workers back in the office part-time
1 year, 5 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 …

Zoom, which thrived on the remote work revolution, wants workers back in the office part-time
1 year, 5 months ago

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

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Zoom, the video conferencing pioneer, is asking employees who …

Zoom calls employees back to office, users express surprise on X
1 year, 5 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 …

Even Zoom is calling employees back to the office
1 year, 5 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 …

Video conferencing platform Zoom cuts staff by 15 per cent
1 year, 11 months ago

Video conferencing platform Zoom cuts staff by 15 per cent

New Indian Express  

SAN FRANCISCO: The company behind the Zoom video conferencing platform -- which became a household name during the pandemic -- announced Tuesday it is laying off about 15 per cent of its staff. Zoom Video Communications chief executive Eric Yuan is also taking a 98 per cent cut in salary this year and forgoing his executive bonus, he said in …

Do you regularly attend Zoom meets? This Centre advisory is meant for you
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 introduces new feature for edge over Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx: Report
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 …

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

Zoom launches 'Focus Mode' feature; here's how you can enable it
3 years, 4 months ago

Zoom launches 'Focus Mode' feature; here's how you can enable it

India Today  

Zoom Video conferencing app is one of the most popular video conferencing apps among people. Recently, Zoom launched a new feature that allows the host of the meeting to see other people’s videos and shared screens. As soon as you enable this feature, the host can access all participants’ videos, but others present in the meeting won’t get distracted by …

Zoom reaches $85 mn settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, ’Zoombombing’
3 years, 5 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 …

Even the chief executive of Zoom says he has ‘Zoom fatigue’
3 years, 8 months ago

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

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s a record that some may be able …

The co-founder of Evernote wants to make Zoom calls fun
3 years, 9 months ago

The co-founder of Evernote wants to make Zoom calls fun

Wired  

When Phil Libin and his colleagues at startup studio All Turtles switched their in-person meetings to video as the coronavirus pandemic set in, something felt off. The driving premise behind Mmhmm, which lets you jazz up video calls on platforms such as Zoom or Google Meet with virtual backgrounds, slides and animations, is a belief that, in many jobs, being …

Ditch the video calls to be more productive
3 years, 9 months ago

Ditch the video calls to be more productive

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. …

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

The Rudest Things You Can Do During A Work Zoom Meeting
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 …

Stanford study tells you exactly why Zoom meetings are fatiguing
3 years, 10 months ago

Stanford study tells you exactly why Zoom meetings are fatiguing

Live Mint  

A Stanford University communications Professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, examined the psychological consequences of spending hours every day on video calls. In the first peer-reviewed article that deconstructs Zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior on Feb. 23, Bailenson analysed features of the video calling platform …

Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it
3 years, 10 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,” …

Why Insider ‘Zoom Bombs’ Are So Hard to Stop
55 years ago

Why Insider ‘Zoom Bombs’ Are So Hard to Stop

Wired  

When Covid-19 spread globally last spring, it made Zoom an immediate household name. But while the videoconferencing platform offered a lifeline for the socially distanced, it soon suffered rampant intrusions from trolls crashing Zoom calls to insult participants, shout racist slurs, and display obscene images. Now one team of researchers has an answer for why many of the measures to …

What’s the environmental impact of your weekly Zoom meeting?
3 years, 11 months ago

What’s the environmental impact of your weekly Zoom meeting?

Live Mint  

If you leave the camera off during your next virtual meeting on Zoom, chances are that you will be helping in reducing the planet’s carbon footprint. A new environmental study says that despite a record fall in global carbon emissions in 2020, the drastic shift to remote work and more at-home entertainment due to the pandemic still presents significant environmental …

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

Zoom May Be Working on Email Service & Calendar App, Should Google & Microsoft Be Wary?
4 years ago

Zoom May Be Working on Email Service & Calendar App, Should Google & Microsoft Be Wary?

News 18  

Video conferencing major Zoom may be looking into expanding its portfolio beyond video conferences, specifically email and calendar services, according to a recent report. Both these ideas are good avenues for Zoom to start expanding with, especially if people start getting back to office post-COVID 19, and the reliance on video conferencing may diminish. The two biggest competitors of Zoom …

Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? There's brain science behind that fatigue
4 years ago

Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? There's brain science behind that fatigue

ABC  

As you hit the red 'leave' button on your last video conference call of 2020 and shut your laptop, you rub your eyes and slump back in your chair. Video calls have only appeared recently in human history, and while our brain has evolved over the millennia to be pretty great at face-to-face communication, it's less deft at processing virtual …

Zoom to lift call time limit for Christmas
4 years ago

Zoom to lift call time limit for Christmas

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. The platform said the time limits would be lifted automatically on those dates without requiring users to …

Zoom to Temporarily Remove Its 40-Minute Time Limit on Video Calls for Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year
4 years ago

Zoom to Temporarily Remove Its 40-Minute Time Limit on Video Calls for Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year

News 18  

Video conferencing platform Zoom has announced that it will forego its 40-minute time limit on the final days of Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years. The development essentially means that regular Zoom users across the world, including those in India, can connect with friends and family members over a video call on these days without any time cap. In a blog …

Zoom to Lift 40-Minute Free Meeting Limit on Thanksgiving Day
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 Healthcare Customers Now Getting New Features Like Zoom Chat, Phone and More
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 …

Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day
4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day

News 18  

Video conferencing giant Zoom has said that it will forego its forty-minute limit on free video calls temporarily on the occasion of thanksgiving. The removal of the 40-minute limit on video calls will come in effect from midnight on Thanksgiving Day, which is on November 26 till 6AM ET on November 27. Zoom announced the temporary removal of the 40-minute …

Zoom to enhance security as part of proposed U.S. settlement with FTC
4 years, 2 months 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 …

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

Tired of work-related Zoom calls? Harsh Goenka shares the perfect hack
4 years, 4 months ago

Tired of work-related Zoom calls? Harsh Goenka shares the perfect hack

Live Mint  

Working from home is probably the new normal in everyone's lives due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. And video calls for work and practically for all types of human interaction has been on a steady rise due to the lockdowns imposed globally. Well, at times these work-related Zoom calls can become overwhelming, even for business tycoon Harsh Goenka. Realising the …

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

Zoom unveils $600 video conferencing device for home workers
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 …

Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption for all users, trial to begin in July
4 years, 6 months ago

Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption for all users, trial to begin in July

The Hindu  

Zoom Video Communications Inc will offer its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said on Wednesday. The company said to help prevent abuse, it will only make the feature available to users who provide a verified phone number. The company has attracted millions of free and …

Zoom’s revenue soars 169% as people flock to service during pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Zoom’s revenue soars 169% as people flock to service during pandemic

CNN  

CNN Business — The Zoom boom is real. Zoom “deployed millions of licenses for new customers,” CEO Eric Yuan said on an earnings call. Created as a business communication tool nearly a decade ago, Zoom’s popularity exploded at the beginning of this year, as millions of people in lockdown began using it to host events ranging from birthday parties to …

Zoom’s rise kicked off a tech battle over video conferencing. Here’s what’s at stake
4 years, 7 months ago

Zoom’s rise kicked off a tech battle over video conferencing. Here’s what’s at stake

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — Before a pandemic forced millions around the world into lockdown, the phrase “video conferencing” generally conjured up an image of stuffy corporate meetings with people unable to physically be in the boardroom. “The video conferencing market is expected to witness high growth during the coronavirus outbreak,” the report said. Facebook is touting its new video …

Zoom India chief says consumers love it, not worried about competitors
4 years, 7 months ago

Zoom India chief says consumers love it, not worried about competitors

India Today  

Zoom is already a household name in India. In an exclusive conversation with India Today Tech, Zoom India head Sameer Raje talks about how the global lockdowns have led to the proliferation of Zoom and other collaboration apps, what the company is doing to make the app, say, useful for life during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, growth in India, …

Google reportedly mulled acquiring Zoom once but downplayed it finally
4 years, 8 months ago

Google reportedly mulled acquiring Zoom once but downplayed it finally

India Today  

Zoom is unarguably popular now, thanks to how personal and professional communications have changed over a past few coronavirus-impacted months. Inside Google, the Cloud engineers were so impressed by Zoom that they reportedly wanted to acquire the video meeting app late in 2018. According to a report by The Information, citing a person who worked with Google Cloud earlier, the …

Facebook and Google are coming for Zoom
4 years, 8 months ago

Facebook and Google are coming for Zoom

CNN  

CNN Business — If there’s one company the pandemic has turned into a household name, it’s Zoom. It’s early to be getting comparable numbers for Facebook ’s Messenger Rooms, but the company said in its announcement that between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, 700 million accounts already participate in video calls each day. Shutterstock “It’s more likely that Facebook will be …

Zoom vulnerable to foreign surveillance, says US intel report
4 years, 8 months ago

Zoom vulnerable to foreign surveillance, says US intel report

India Today  

Zoom sits atop the concerns around privacy and security currently as people switched to connecting via video meetings amid lockdown. "Zoom’s sudden immense growth and use across both public and private sector entities in combination with its highly publicized cybersecurity issues creates a vulnerable, target-rich environment," noted the report. A Zoom spokesperson told ABC News that the intelligence report is …

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