Washington and Lee University staff votes to remove Lee from its name

Thursday, 9 July 2020, 01:02:23
Approximately 79 per cent of the 260 faculty members at the Lexington university decided to remove the name of the general in a vote held over a Zoom meeting on Tuesday.
— Daily Mail Online

Microsoft Teams’ new features to use AI and its smart assistant in video conferencing show it’s no longer just playing catch up with Zoom

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 23:43:22
Microsoft Teams announced some new features Wednesday, including a new “together mode” that makes it look like people in the same room and an integration with its smart assistant Cortana. The new tools set Microsoft’s videoconferencing system apart from competitors like Zoom and Google Meet: “It really highlights Microsoft taking a leadership position in this market in a way that we haven’t really seen,” CCS analyst Angela Ashenden told Business Insider. Microsoft executive Jared Spataro, who runs Microsoft 365, said Microsoft has been looking closely at any gaps its services had, but that these new features push the market forward based on customer feedback. “Together mode” uses artificial intelligence segment people’s heads and shoulders and place them in the same shared background on a video call. It’s meant to reduce meeting fatigue and make people feel more connected. Click here for more BI Prime stories . Microsoft announced a handful of new features for its chat and collaboration app Teams on Wednesday that aim to make remote work less cumbersome and which show that it’s finally pushing the video conferencing market forward, according to an analyst, instead of just playing catch-up to competitor Zoom.
— Business Insider

Church to honour frontline healthcare workers in Abu Dhabi

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 23:00:00
The Youth Movement of the Church of South India Parish in Abu Dhabi will organise a virtual function through Zoom platform on Thursday evening.
— Khaleej Times

Slack, Microsoft, Zoom are upping the ante in virtual meeting wars

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 21:32:00
In short order, Slack made a rare acquisition, Microsoft Teams dressed up Teams service, and Zoom is getting into the hardware business.
— MarketWatch

Facing $25 million deficit, Stanford cuts 11 sports teams

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 20:21:52
The school informed student-athletes and coaches of the affected departments by a Zoom…
— SFGate