The company is adding live streaming to its TouchCast Studio platform, which provides a TV studio in an iPad. Will companies adopt a Periscope-type approach to communication?
Avaya has $6 billion in debt maturing within a year and said that its balance sheet was hampering its transformation to become more software and services based.
According to Slack, Threads will provide a better way to organize and focus conversations and provide context.
Polycom's latest systems are aimed at smaller settings and conference rooms.
VMware is bolstering its collaboration suite efforts and combining tools from Socialcast and Airwatch, two companies that were acquired.
The fatal flaw for the latest round of technology to help us collaborate and communicate: We don't need technology to help us communicate. We need to be taught how to communicate.
Cisco is busy retooling its collaboration portfolio with a telepresence system that uses less bandwidth and power and Project Squared, a mobile app that offers video conferencing, document sharing and other tools.
Inbox isn't the new Gmail, but a separate take on managing that neverending email flow. The invite only Google Now-ish app could come in handy if it delivers on what Google is promising.
The two companies were already integration partners and sealed the arrangement with an acquisition.
Software and cloud-based video collaboration tools have opened up a big can of whoop ass on hardware-based video conferencing systems.