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  Zoom fatigue greater for women, finds Stanford study

  Technology | April 15, 2021 14:10 IST

  The feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings, also known as "Zoom fatigue", is greater for women than men. 

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  Dreamcast unveils real time 2-way virtual conferencing

  Technology | April 13, 2021 15:22 IST

  Event planners and organisers can use two-way video conferencing to enhance 1:1 conversations between attendees and speakers in real-time during the virtual event.

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  Facebook Portal TV now gets support for Zoom

  Technology | April 08, 2021 15:34 IST

  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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  Disabling video during online meets boosts communication

  Technology | March 31, 2021 12:05 IST

  A new study has challenged the effectiveness of online meetings, suggesting that non-visual communication methods that better synchronise and boost audio cues are, in fact, more effective.

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  This app allows you to escape boring Zoom meets with fake audio

  Apps | March 16, 2021 14:22 IST

  Bored of attending Zoom meetings all day? Here comes an app that will create natural sounds like a crying baby, a barking dog, choppy audio, construction noises, echo sounds and more, so that you can escape the meetings with a reasonable excuse.

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  Zoom up after hours-long outage hits services

  Technology | March 04, 2021 12:18 IST

   Zoom said it recovered from an outage where some users were unable to join meetings on its platform.

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  Zoom to roll out ‘automatic closed captioning' for all free accounts

  Technology | February 25, 2021 18:48 IST

  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 had 70x user growth in India amid pandemic: CEO

  Business | February 18, 2021 22:23 IST

  ​The pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in a 70 times increase in the user base for Zoom in the four months to April 2020, the video conference app's founder and Chief Executive Eric S Yuan said on Thursday.  

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  Toolkit controversy: Delhi Police writes to Zoom, seeking details of Zoom meeting

  News | February 16, 2021 13:05 IST

  Delhi Police writes to Zoom, seeking details of Zoom meeting over toolkit matter in connection with 26th January violence.

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  Zoom's 'studio effects' feature make meetings fun

  Technology | February 09, 2021 15:04 IST

  Zoom has come up with a feature "Studio Effects" that allows users to add a variety of eyebrows, facial hair and lip colour during live video streams.

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  Now control Zoom meeting rooms from your smartphone

  Technology | February 04, 2021 12:14 IST

  Zoom users can now control their meeting room experience from their mobile devices, eliminating the need for users to touch the shared in-room controller.

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  This app turns iPhone into overhead document viewer on Zoom

  Technology | January 07, 2021 18:05 IST

  For teachers, there is now a free iOS app that can turn their iPhones or iPads into an overhead document camera viewer on Zoom or other video conferencing apps.

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  Zoom planning its own email service, calendar app: Report

  Technology | December 24, 2020 15:52 IST

   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.

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  Zoom lifts 40-minute limit for the upcoming holiday season

  Technology | December 17, 2020 18:08 IST

  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 to celebrate Thanksgiving by lifting 40-minute limit on free meetings

  Technology | November 26, 2020 15:53 IST

  Zoom has said that it is lifting the 40-minute limit on free accounts globally for Thanksgiving in order to help bring families together virtually this holiday season amid the pandemic.

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  Zoom to temporarily lift 40-minute meeting limit on Thanksgiving Day

  Technology | November 16, 2020 8:39 IST

  Communications tech company Zoom has said that it would lift its standard forty-minute limit on free video calls for 'Thanksgiving Day' to make it simpler for families to spend time virtually on the US holiday.

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  Zoom rolls out new feature to see spoken words into caption

  Technology | October 31, 2020 16:15 IST

  Communications tech company Zoom is partnering with transcription service Otter.ai to make the video call experience better. According to Mashable, Otter.ai is partnering with Zoom to launch live captioning for all Zoom calls.

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  Zoom launches new online events platform 'OnZoom'

  Technology | October 15, 2020 20:58 IST

  Zoom has launched an online event platform and marketplace called OnZoom for paid users of the platform to create, host, and monetise events like fitness classes, concerts, stand-up or music lessons on the Zoom Meetings platform.

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  Zoom to roll out end-to-end encryption starting next week

  Technology | October 15, 2020 18:36 IST

  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. 

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  Zoom supports rupee as localised pricing for India market

  Technology | October 09, 2020 13:24 IST

  Zoom said the support for Indian currency represents the company's growing strategic investment and plans to grow in the country.