[Infographic] The 1,000-Year Evolution of Speech and Voice Recognition

From the Brazen Head to Apple's Siri, voice and speech recognition has come a long way. Check out the significant developments along the way. Perhaps the most important advancement was 1978's Speak & Spell from Texas Instruments, which made the concept fun and familiar for millions of children - some of whom might have gone on to create modern voice applications.

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To Sell More, Focus on Existing Customers

Strengthening your relationship with your existing customer base is one of the best ways to increase sales. Your company's account management and operating teams play critical roles in making this happen. If they're not performing at their peak, the door opens for competitors to step in.

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Say hello to the Skype mafia

Everybody's heard of the PayPal mafia - the cohort of entrepreneurs who graduated from the payments service when it was bought by eBay and have since left their mark across dozens of Silicon Valley companies, including Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and many more. But was it entirely [...]

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Startup Connection Cloud aims to free your SaaS data

Many companies jumped on the software as a service (SaaS) bandwagon because that cloud-delivery model gets their applications up and running fast and uniformly across geographies and business units. On the flip side, SaaS vendors have recreated the same sort of seperate data silos that plagued the client-server computing era.

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