News You might have missed: Week of September 22, 2017

Carolina Milanesi on September 22, 2017

Alexa on your Face whispering in Your Ears

Earlier in the week, the FT published a story reporting that Amazon was allegedly working on a set of glasses using bone conducting technology to bring Alexa to your ears. Given Amazon’s hiring back in 2014 of Babak Parviz- founder of Google Glass – the Amazon’s eyewear should not come as a surprise. According to the FT, the glasses will have no screen, will work tethered to a smartphone and will look like a traditional set of glasses.

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Carolina Milanesi

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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.