Facebook Portal devices hit all-time low prices in early Black Friday sale

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Engadget

A good video chat experience is crucial at a time when in-person visits simply aren’t an option. Facebook is capitalizing on that with an early Black Friday sale for its Portal calling devices on both Amazon and its own store. Multiple models have re...

Tinder’s Face to Face video chats launch globally

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Engadget

After testing it in multiple countries and several US states, Tinder is rolling out its “Face to Face” one-on-one chat feature to users around the world, the company announced. The service will be helpful during the pandemic, as it will let you chat...

Zoom is down, everyone stop pretending to work

Posted on 24/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Despite some controversy and security issues, Zoom has become near-essential in the time of coronavirus, with so many companies moving to remote work. As such, it surely shook workers everywhere when they discovered Zoom was down this Monday morning....

Facebook Portal adds Zoom support and other work-from-home features

Posted on 19/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook is introducing several new features to its line of Portal video chat devices today, most of which have a work-from-home bent. The most significant announcement: all Portal devices will now support the Zoom video conferencing platform.Seeing...

Google Meet for Education will auto-block users who don’t log in

Posted on 14/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google Meet for Education wants to prevent “zoombombing.” G Suite for Education meetings will block anonymous users by default, the company announced today. Users will have to be logged in to a Google account to join a call. This should keep trolls f...

GoPro turns your Hero 8 Black into a wide-angle webcam

Posted on 09/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, you may not have had the chance to use your fancy new GoPro Hero 8 Black as much as you had planned. The good news is that it can now double as webcam. Following its DSLR and mirrorless counterparts, GoPro has rele...

Google Duo on the web now supports 32-person video chat

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google Duo has upped its game over the last two months. In May, the web-based chat app added a family mode with cutesy Snapchat-like AR effects and a doodle board to make video chatting more fun for kids (and bored adults.) Now, Google has updated Du...

Slack video and voice calls will rely on Amazon Chime

Posted on 05/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Just as Slack reported quarterly earnings, it also announced a new agreement with Amazon. Under the terms of the deal Slack will keep using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider — as it has since launching in 2014 — and is shiftin...

Zoom usage peaked at 300 million daily participants in April

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

As the response to the coronavirus pandemic pushed people out of offices and back into their homes, videoconferencing has taken center stage and one of the biggest beneficiaries of the switch is Zoom. Today the company reported its earnings for the f...

Zoom usage peaked at 300 million daily participants in April

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

GIZMODO.cz

Syndicated rss news

Tag Archives: video chat

Facebook Portal devices hit all-time low prices in early Black Friday sale

Tinder’s Face to Face video chats launch globally

Zoom is down, everyone stop pretending to work

Facebook Portal adds Zoom support and other work-from-home features

Google Meet for Education will auto-block users who don’t log in

GoPro turns your Hero 8 Black into a wide-angle webcam

Google Duo on the web now supports 32-person video chat

Slack video and voice calls will rely on Amazon Chime

Zoom usage peaked at 300 million daily participants in April

Zoom usage peaked at 300 million daily participants in April