Video Conferencing

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, on January 12.  The colleges worth Rs 4,000 crores have been inaugurated in Virudhunagar, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri districts, increasing MBBS seats to 92,222, by 79.60%. Besides colleges, PM Modi also launched new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamili in the State, worth Rs… read-more

Social Media giant Facebook is likely to launch its Portable version of the Portal video calling devices. Reportedly, the company is looking forward to entering the digital device market after the launch. According to the reports, the portal device will cost around $199 (USD). However, the first line of the device was launched in 2018. Moreover, the company is planning to add the Microsoft Team's feature to the device.

A recent study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has suggested that 87% of Indian businesses are preferring a flexible work model through video conferencing solutions. The COVID-19 employee sentiment survey showed that 70% of managers preferred remote working models if compared to the pre-pandemic times. Interestingly, the survey expects over a third of employees to work remotely in the post-pandemic time as well. The survey considered… read-more

Addressing the security concerns, Zoom has announced that it will provide an end-to-end encryption feature for video-conferencing of upto 200 people. Moreover, the video-conferencing app has said that the service will be available for both fee-paying and free customers. With end-to-end encryption, features like joining before host, streaming, recording and few others will be disabled. The company said that the new service will be available… read-more

To advance the video calls' experience, PORTL, a Los Angeles company, has created a device that could beam a life-sized hologram in real-time. The device is around seven feet tall, five feet wide and two feet deep. With device been installed, a camera and a white background are the only other tools required to beam the hologram. Currently, it costs around 60,000 USD.