The Spur Group

The Spur Group | April 27, 2020

Everything in our lives has fundamentally changed in 2020. We can’t just run to the store for a forgotten item. We can’t visit our families, our parents or our children and grandchildren. No more dropping in on friends for fun. For those of us who have loved ones who are first responders or in positions considered essential, we worry every day for their safety and for the safety of those in our homes. And the experience of work has been completely disrupted, even for people used to w...

The Spur Group | October 29, 2019

Cohesity today announced the appointment of Bill Lipsin as vice president of global channel sales. In this role, Lipsin will accelerate the company’s rapidly growing channel partner ecosystem. Lipsin will be responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy, channel programs, enablement, and distribution channels. Cohesity offerings are sold exclusively through channel partners. Lipsin brings more than 25 years of enterprise channel, sales, and marketing expertise to Cohesity. He w...

Google | January 13, 2020

Google is finally ready to give Android users in EU the choice of alternative search engines but surprisingly it’s DuckDuckGo that has been regarded as the most preferred choice whereas Bing stood at last. From 1st March 2020, European Union citizens will get the advantage to choose one out of four search engines as their default (including Google). By doing so, they will not only see their selected choice for making searches in Chrome, but also through Android home screen search box and a...

Facebook | January 13, 2020

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its release in December 2018, FAIR called the fastest open source speech recognition system available. Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is used to turn ...