You can now start conversations in Google Chat (previously known as Hangouts Chat) with people outside of your domain. You’ll be able to do this by either sending a direct message or adding them to rooms. Conversations with external users in classic Hangouts will also appear in Chat as new...
Following school closures due to Covid-19, the past few months have been a crash course in distance learning for so many educators. Just about every educator is learning the ins and outs of distance learning. If you’re a teacher testing various digital tools for your distance learning program, this is...
Google has introduced a new Asus starter kit for Google Meet Hardware. It is helpful for those who take frequent video conferences from home or from smaller-sized rooms. The starter kit includes the Huddly camera, speakermic, compute system and remote control. It requires less space and is a more affordable...
Starting from 2 June 2020, you can migrate all of your users from classic Hangouts to Google Chat with the “Chat preferred” setting in the Admin console. If you enable this setting, Google Chat will become the default chat application for your organisation, replacing all of your classic Hangouts apps...
Google is bringing a new way to organise your tabs to Chrome with tab groups. This feature is available now in Chrome Beta. Now, with a simple right-click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and colour. Once the tabs are grouped together, you...
From sifting through huge research datasets to finding potential treatments, to more accurately forecasting the spread of the disease, to powering virtual agents to answer questions about Covid-19, AI is helping all kinds of organisations. The following are a few of the ways AI is helping during Covid-19.
Google Cloud's Architecture Framework is now available to everyone. This framework provides architecture best practices and implementation guidance on products and services to aid your application design choices based on your unique business needs. With the help of this framework, you can quickly identify areas where your approach differs from...
Covid-19 has impacted everyone around the globe including the retail industry. The shift to digital has been well underway for years in retail but today, retailers have a new sense of urgency to digitally transform as the industry responds to Covid-19. The pandemic has dramatically impacted the retail industry at-large,...
Google has added a setting in the Admin console to allow you to enable power-saving signalling over HDMI from Google Meet hardware. When enabled, this feature can help you save power by turning off Meet hardware displays when they’re not in use. Some displays, like those in conference rooms and lobbies,...
Access to critical information is more important than ever. As businesses shift to remote work setups and educational institutions roll out distance learning programmes, Google Sites can be a helpful tool for centralising and sharing important information across large, dispersed audiences. With Sites, it’s easy to create high-quality websites, without...
