Facebook Portal TV now gets support for Zoom
Technology | April 08, 2021 15:34 ISTWith an aim to make work-from-home lifestyle more convenient amid the pandemic, Facebook has added Zoom and GoToMeeting support to its Portal TV product.
With an aim to make work-from-home lifestyle more convenient amid the pandemic, Facebook has added Zoom and GoToMeeting support to its Portal TV product.
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Zoom said it recovered from an outage where some users were unable to join meetings on its platform.
Zoom said it is working towards making "automatic closed captioning" available for all the free account holders to make the service more accessible.
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Zoom is now planning to develop an email service and release it next year, along with working on a calendar application, to take on giants like Google and Microsoft.
Zoom, the popular video conferencing app, will be removing the 40-minute time limit on free accounts for the upcoming holiday season.
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Zoom is all set to roll out the first phase of its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) offering from next week, initially as a technical preview for a month during which the platform will solicit feedback from users.
Zoom said the support for Indian currency represents the company's growing strategic investment and plans to grow in the country.
Zoom already has an SSO option to make it easy for faculty and staff to securely access their Zoom account.
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