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Microsoft Teams now lets you Upload your own Photos as Background Images

It might not necessarily make that early Monday morning video call more fun, but Microsoft Teams will now let users upload their own photos for custom backgrounds, the company announced in a blog post. Custom images and other background effects are only available for scheduled Teams meetings, Microsoft says. Teams has a background blurring effect and a library of pre-installed images to allow meeting participants to conceal their messy home […]

todayJune 18, 2020

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Slack partners with Amazon to take on Microsoft Teams

Slack is partnering with Amazon in a multiyear agreement that means all Amazon employees will be able to start using Slack. The deal comes just as Slack faces increased competition from Microsoft Teams, and it will also see Slack migrate its voice and video calling features over to Amazon’s Chime platform alongside a broader adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon’s roll out of Slack to all of its employees […]

todayJune 10, 2020

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How to be a Video Call Pro

People all over the country are discovering the highs and lows of video conferencing.  It helps you connect with friends and family, you feel less alone, and you can keep in touch with your co-workers and to-do lists while working from home.  But things like Zoom and Microsoft Teams are new to a lot of us.  Letting people into our homes, trying to look refreshed and presentable at a conference […]

todayApril 23, 2020

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Google and Microsoft Give Free Enterprise Conferencing Tools to Alleviate Coronavirus

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has pushed more companies and organizations to transition to remote work, and now both Google and Microsoft have said they will grant access to their more robust teleconferencing and collaboration tools that are typically only available to enterprise customers to make it easier for people to work from home. Both companies are only offering free access for a limited time. Google announced this morning that it […]

todayMarch 4, 2020

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