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Cisco’s Webex videoconferencing software now lets you set virtual backgrounds

The Verge

As it tries to catch up with the popular features offered by some of its younger competitors, Cisco’s Webex has unveiled virtual backgrounds for its videoconferences. Users can either apply a “blur” effect to mask their background or replace with one of Webex’s preset background images.

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Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex

TechCrunch

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio , which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. And the company believes that Webex provides the platform to make it all happen.

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7 Reasons To Try A Virtual Nonprofit Focus Group

Bloomerang

Ease of organization, larger participant pools and technological advances have helped the virtual nonprofit focus group overtake its traditional format. Here are 7 reasons to try a virtual nonprofit focus group. For your virtual focus group, however, you have plenty of tools to choose from when it comes to bringing people together.

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Amazon’s Alexa and Cisco’s Webex are heading to deep space on NASA’s upcoming Moon mission

The Verge

A version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant and Cisco’s Webex videoconferencing platform will be included on the flight to space, part of a technology demonstration to see if these tools might benefit future astronauts flying to distant destinations like the Moon and Mars. virtual crew members will ask for certain types of information.

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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

TechCrunch

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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Microsoft Windows 365 moves your PC to the cloud

TechSpot

The idea of computing via the cloud has become so commonplace through the pandemic that virtually no one gives it much of a thought anymore. Application suites like Office 365, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, communication tools like Zoom, Teams, and Webex, and even file storage services like OneDrive, DropBox,

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Zoom to lift 40-minute meeting limit on Thanksgiving for longer family hangouts

The Verge

Zoom said earlier this week it would lift its standard 40-minute limit on free video chats for Thanksgiving Day to make it easier to spend time with friends and family virtually on the US holiday. It’s only a temporary removal of the 40-minute restriction, lasting from midnight on Thanksgiving Day (November 26th) to 6AM ET on November 27th.

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