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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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Entire school board resigns in shame after forgetting their WebEx call was public

The Verge

That didn’t keep the Oakley Union Elementary School District’s board of trustees from badmouthing parents during a public WebEx call — suggesting that parents just “want their babysitters back,” or want to go back to smoking marijuana (via Gizmodo ).

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Cisco Webex gets big revamp team collaboration and video conferencing

TechSpot

Right, we’re all just happy (or at least grateful) that applications like Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, and others exist, because they’re allowing business and personal communications to occur and companies to function. But if you take a step back, it’s incredibly impressive how rapidly these tools have improved over the.

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

TechCrunch

Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. The goal appears to be to combine this with the recent purchase of Slido and transform Webex from an application mostly for video meetings into a more comprehensive event platform. The two companies did not share the purchase price.

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Cisco extends feature offerings for hybrid work, debuts Webex Suite

TechSpot

Like many other vendors developing and selling video-based communications tools, Cisco has been working to evolve its Webex offering into a tool that can meet the many challenges these new situations present. As with its competitors, it has been incrementally adding new features and capabilities at an extremely rapid pace,

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Cisco unveils new AI tools to revamp Webex experience, collaboration

TechSpot

However, at their recent Webex One conference, Read Entire Article Until recently, most of the attention given to GenAI in the business context was focused on text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) and chatbot-style applications that leverage them.

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Otter.ai expands automatic transcription assistant to Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Cisco Webex

TechCrunch

is expanding its Otter Assistant feature for Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Cisco Webex. AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai first released this feature for Zoom users earlier this year (in May).

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