Rob Scott

Santa Monica-based Snapchat announced a new Monetization Program for content creators this week that will feature expanded revenue opportunities and evolving rewards. Beginning February 1, creators that have at least 50,000 followers and post at least 25 times each month to Saved Stories or Spotlight videos will have the option to place ads in videos that are longer than one minute. Eligible creators would also need to meet one of the following criteria in the most recent month: 10 million Snap views, one million Spotlight views, or 12,000 hours of total view time. According to Snap, Spotlight video viewership is up 25 percent year-over-year.

Two countries have been shortlisted for the Royal Australian Navy's $10 billion general frigate program.

As the year comes to a close, Rob Scott , joined by Tom Arbuthnot of Empowering.Cloud , and other renowned Microsoft Teams experts, explores the standout moments and innovations from 2024.

Let's face it—LinkedIn has gone corporate nowadays, and its development in its Groups feature is pretty sub-par. X (formerly Twitter) is a ghost town for meaningful UC discussion.

Let's face it – we're all growing tired of the polished, LinkedIn-style corporate speak around customer experience.

As someone deeply immersed in the world of unified communications and collaboration technology, I've witnessed countless teams struggle with a

CES Unveiled 2025 offered a preview of new technologies two days ahead of the official opening of the massive CES show floor in Las Vegas on January 7. From AI-powered tools and robotics to energy-saving innovations and immersive displays, the event showcased a spectrum of advancements. Among the more notable highlights included cognitive AI demonstrated by Neural Lab, the latest brain-computer interface tech from Naqi Logix, AR and smart glasses developed by companies such as Rokid and Mustard, and a variety of interesting video- and audio-related offerings to be showcased at CES.

Disney+ is the latest major streaming service to deploy HDR10+, which adds dynamic metadata to any video source to optimize picture quality on a frame-by-frame basis. In doing so, it joins other big streamers: Apple TV+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, and Google's YouTube. The HDR10+ standard, which replaces SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) provides improved brightness and contrast as well as the benefits of standardization and global certification. HDR, originally debuted in 2017 by Samsung and Panasonic, now has over 160 adopters and more than 13,000 compatible products. CES featured a collection of additional HDR10+ announcements.

As Microsoft Teams expands its dominance in enterprise communications, Operator Connect is the game-changer enabling seamless voice integration directly within the platform.

In an era where digital communications run rampant across enterprises, Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA) solutions have emerged