Novartis certainly needs something to get Entresto moving. The drug managed only $5 million in sales in the fourth quarter, a bit short of consensus estimates of $54.8 million. The company forecasts $5 billion in peak annual sales.
Spanner is a scalable, globally-distributed database de-. signed, built, and deployed at Google. At the high-. est level of abstraction, it is a database that shards data. across many sets of Paxos [21] state machines in data-. centers spread all over the world.
Vlingo is one of the few Android assistants that doesn't rely exclusively on Google's voice recognition system. You can choose to use Google's system or Vlingo's home-grown processing. My advice is to stick with Google. I tried Vlingo's voice recognition and found it generally disappointing.