News You might have missed: Week of June 29th, 2018

Duplex is out for Public Testing

This week at an event in Mountain View, Google demoed the public release of Duplex to a bunch of reporters. The demo took place at Oren’s Hummus Shop in Mountain View but no video recording was allowed so we have mostly an account of what happened through the reports’ stories. After the software says hello to the person on the other end of the line, it will immediately identify itself: “Hi, I’m the Google Assistant, calling to make a reservation for a client. This automated call will be recorded.” (The exact language of the disclosure varied slightly in a few of the different demos.)

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Carolina Milanesi

Carolina is a Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, Inc, a market intelligence and strategy consulting firm based in Silicon Valley and recognized as one of the premier sources of quantitative and qualitative research and insights in tech. At Creative Strategies, Carolina focuses on consumer tech across the board. From hardware to services, she analyzes today to help predict and shape tomorrow. In her prior role as Chief of Research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, she drove thought leadership research by marrying her deep understanding of global market dynamics with the wealth of data coming from ComTech’s longitudinal studies on smartphones and tablets. Prior to her ComTech role, Carolina spent 14 years at Gartner, most recently as their Consumer Devices Research VP and Agenda Manager. In this role, she led the forecast and market share teams on smartphones, tablets, and PCs. She spent most of her time advising clients from VC firms, to technology providers, to traditional enterprise clients. Carolina is often quoted as an industry expert and commentator in publications such as The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She regularly appears on BBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox, NBC News and other networks. Her Twitter account was recently listed in the “101 accounts to follow to make Twitter more interesting” by Wired Italy.