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Google ramps up cloud collaboration tools for businesses, Telecom News, ET Telecom
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday ramped up cloud collaboration tools for businesses, expecting “hybrid” work routines to remain even after the pandemic has ended. The internet titan competes with Microsoft, Zoom, Facebook and others with online services that employees can use to collaborate remotely. Tech giants turned to their own tools after abandoning campuses early in the pandemic, which fueled a fierce remote work trend. “We’ve seen a radical transformation, and a lot of that transformation is here to stay,” Google product management director Dave Citron said during a briefing on new Workspace offerings. “But I think it is too … Read more
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New Collaboration Enables Math Teachers to Use Popular Graphing Tool
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SMART Technologies, the education technology company with a 30-year track record of pioneering learning solutions that encourage student collaboration and engagement, is making the popular Desmos Graphing Calculator available to millions of educators through Lumio. The collaboration comes as teachers are focusing on accelerating learning with students returning to the classroom post-pandemic, particularly in math. A recent study showed that in spring 2021, fewer students performed at grade level across all grades compared to comparable periods. The new collaboration between SMART and Desmos will integrate the Desmos Graphing Calculator into Lumio, … Read more
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Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity
Collaborative work — time spent on email, IM, phone, and video calls — has risen 50% or more over the past decade to consume 85% or more of most people’s work weeks. The Covid-19 pandemic caused this figure to take another sharp upward tick, with people spending more time each week in shorter and more fragmented meetings, with voice and video call times doubling and IM traffic increasing by 65%. And to make matters worse, collaboration demands are moving further into the evening and are beginning earlier in the morning. These demands, which can be invisible to managers, are … Read more
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7 Trends in Enterprise Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC)
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people work and forced organizations to find new ways to stay competitive while maintaining employee productivity. At the same time, remote work became more popular out of necessity, spurring on a long-lasting shift to a work-from-anywhere work model. Always a part of doing business, unified communications and collaboration has found new life as organizations turned to its set of communication and collaboration tools to host meetings and conferences as well as to increase workforce productivity. Enterprises’ renewed embrace of UCC underscores the value of its dynamic functionality, allowing instant access to information, facilitating multimedia … Read more
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Shelter directors: Collaboration needed to combat homelessness | News
Local homeless shelter directors say collaboration between counties is what is needed to ensure individuals experiencing homelessness in the region are getting the services they need. Daniel Pitino Shelter executive director Michele Johnston and St. Benedict’s Shelter executive director Harry Pedigo said they work to provide shelter to anyone who needs it in the community if there is availability, regardless of where they’re from. Of the 136 individuals the Pitino shelter has served since the beginning of the year, programs director Cheryl Moore said 41 have been from outside of Owensboro-Daviess County. Pedigo said about 40% of St. Benedict’s clients … Read more
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Positive Results from the Scandion Oncology and Alligator Bioscience Collaboration Further Supports Efficacy of Mitazalimab in Combination Therapy
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Alligator Bioscience AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: ATORX) and Scandion Oncology A/S (Nasdaq Stockholm: SCOL), today announced the conclusion of their collaboration with a very positive outcome. The purpose of the collaboration was to explore the anti-tumor efficacy of the CD40 antibody mitazalimab in chemotherapy-resistant preclinical tumor models as an addition to chemotherapy (FOLFIRINOX) combined with SCO-101. The hypothesis that was tested was to see if SCO-101, as compared to saline control will revert chemotherapy resistance and thereby facilitate a strengthening of the anti-tumor effects of mitazalimab. After the final data has been evaluated, the … Read more
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Recent survey on Collaboration Tools highlights a 44 percent increase in usage, thus proving the pandemic effect on their growth / Digital Information World
Over the year’s digitalization has seen a tenfold success, technological devices with time have become more and more capable and are able to solve most human problems quicker than humans themselves. This fast technological innovation has led a large part of the world population to adapt these resources and use them to their advantage thus making any work easier and simpler for them. A recent example of tech that make life easier for us are collaboration tools which as the name suggest are tools that makes it easier for workers and colleagues to work together on a project. Collaboration tools … Read more