{"id":40744,"date":"2020-04-17T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=0657cea779ed7c2e2443625bf4d86310"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:19:20","slug":"googles-meet-to-be-integrated-with-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/googles-meet-to-be-integrated-with-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Meet to be integrated with Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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17 Apr, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200b<\/span>Google has added the option for its Gmail business and education users to take calls through\u00a0its video conferencing tool Meet, following a\u00a0demand for more secure video conferencing tools.<\/p>\n

Google Meet is available only to schools, businesses, and governments, as opposed to its more consumer-focused Hangouts platform, which can be joined by anybody with a Google account.<\/p>\n

The integration of Gmail and Meets is the first of several other functionalities that are to be added later this month. Google vice president Javier Soltero told Reuters<\/em><\/a> that the company has also decided to roll out several other features ahead of schedule due to the surge in demand for video conferencing tools.<\/p>\n

The move is likely to capitalise on Google\u2019s reputation for providing secure tools, as many are becoming wary of video conferencing security breaches such as \u2018Zoom-bombing\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meet is also set to offer a Zoom-like layout displaying up to 16 call participants at once, as well as improving video quality in dim lighting and the ability to filter background noise such as keyboard clicks.<\/p>\n

Google Meet usage has surged 25 times<\/a> amid the coronavirus pandemic and earlier this month Soltero revealed that Google Meet was adding over 2 million new users every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re spending over 2 billion minutes together \u2013 that\u2019s more than 3,800 years of secure meetings in a single day,\u201d he wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google has also announced that it would be extending the free availability of advanced Google Meet video-conferencing capabilities<\/a> for all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers until 30 September 2020.<\/p>\n

This follows the news that Microsoft pledged to work with the 27,000 schools in the UK<\/a>, helping them run lessons remotely using Microsoft Teams, Office 365<\/a>, as well as software such as Minecraft: Education Edition, Flipgrid, Skype in the Classroom and InTune. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

17 Apr, 2020 <\/p>\n

\u200bGoogle has added the option for its Gmail business and education users to take calls through\u00a0its video conferencing tool Meet, following a\u00a0demand for more secure video conferencing tools.
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