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Fitbit reveals Blaze fitness tracker with color touchscreen, Misfit launches compact RayFitbit on Tuesday announced the Blaze, its first-ever fitness tracker with a color touchscreen, while Misfit continued its alternative approach by in…
... and bands, much like a smartwatch. By default the product comes ... -
Samsung seeks to evade $120 million verdict due in Apple's second iPhone infringement trialIn its second patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, Apple sought $2.2 billion in damages but was awarded just $119.6 million. Samsung is now a…
... uncontested in the global smartphone, smartwatch, tablet, desktop and notebook PC ... -
Apple's competition is going to have a tough year in 2016Poor Apple! In 2015 it grabbed a 94 percent share of the world's global smartphone profits, sold the only really profitable tablets and smartwatch, i…
... only really profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac unit sales ... -
Apple's competition is going to have a tough year in 2016In 2015 Apple grabbed a 94 percent share of the world's global smartphone profits, sold the only profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac…
... the only profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac unit sales ... -
Apple's competition is going to have a tough year in 2016: part 2While Apple's detractors see a bleak future for the world's richest tech company, the reality is that it will be much easier for Apple sell iPhones, …
... Apple Watch obliterated every other smartwatch vendor from day one. Fitbit ... -
Year-old Android 5 Lollipop on 33% of Google Play users, but only 20% of devices in ChinaGoogle's ability to distribute new Android updates has always lagged far behind Apple's iOS, but the situation is even worse in China, where the "Lol…
... Fitbit, Apple Watch and other smartwatch users in conjunction with Wristly. -
Microsoft offering up to $250 for Apple Watch users to trade in for a Band 2Microsoft is taking direct aim at rival Apple in a new promotion, which offers Apple Watch owners up to $250 in credit toward the purchase of a new M…
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Samsung planning to bring many new apps to iOS, rumor claimsSamsung will allegedly port a number of apps to iOS later this year as it tries to increase the cross-platform appeal of its devices, including speak…
... support to its Gear S2 smartwatch. By comparison, Apple has virtually ... -
Rumor claims next-gen Apple Watch going into mass production in Q2A questionable rumor on Tuesday indicated that the second-generation Apple Watch will go into mass production in the second quarter of 2016, with Qua…
... over 50 percent of the smartwatch market. Apple has not released ... -
Apple sneaks into several Super Bowl 50 commercialsApple didn't buy airtime during America's National Football League 2016 Super Bowl, but some of its products did turn up playing a cameo role in a va…
... to promote its new Blaze smartwatch in an advertisement, what appeared ... has greatly outsold all other smartwatch products on the market. According ... -
Former Google exec Vic Gundotra shows off Kardia Band, an ECG heart monitor for Apple Watch [u]The Kardia Band -- built by Google+ founding father Vic Gundotra's medical device startup AliveCor -- is an Apple Watch band with an integrated ECG m…
The Kardia Band -- built by Google+ founding father Vic Gundotra's medical device startup AliveCor -- is an Apple Watch band with an integrated ECG module that the company hopes will make it easier for heart patients to identify potential problems before ... -
IDC predicts 14M Apple Watch sales in 2016, growing to 31M in 2020The wearable smartwatch market will continue to grow for the foreseeable future, research firm IDC believes, with the Apple Watch forecast to continu…
... latest predictions for the smartwatch market were published on ... captured 63 percent of smartwatch shipments in 2015. Apple, ... sales figures. IDC believes the smartwatch market will mimic the ... . This puts pressure on smartwatch platforms to develop further ... -
Days after Apple Watch's $50 price cut, competitor Pebble lays off 25% of staffAffordable smartwatch maker and wearable device pioneer Pebble announced on Wednesday that it is laying off 25 percent of its staff this week, citing…
Affordable smartwatch maker and wearable device pioneer ... small. Estimates pegged total 2014 smartwatch sales at just 6.8 ... -
Three-fifths of Apple Watch owners plan to upgrade to next model sight unseenA little over three-fifths of current Apple Watch owners are planning to upgrade to the next model, even though any features it might have are still …
... respondents said they had no smartwatch at all. Current Watch owners ... -
Apple Watch takes 71 percent share of teen market, iPhone remains strong, study saysApple's mobile product lines continue to perform well with the all important U.S. teen demographic, as a new spring 2016 survey put Apple Watch far a…
... far ahead in the nascent smartwatch game, while iPhone exhibited ... those who did purchase a smartwatch, Apple Watch was the ... teens who actually own a smartwatch is below anticipated just ... percent of participants owned a smartwatch. Moving to the mature ... -
Leaked iPhone app suggests Samsung preparing iOS support for Gear S2 smart watchAn unfinished app for managing Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch has quietly appeared online, which may hint that Samsung is nearly ready to deliver on it…
... managing Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch has quietly appeared online, which ... -
Nokia buys health & fitness gear maker Withings in deal worth $192 millionNokia Technologies on Tuesday announced a planned takeover of health and fitness accessory maker Withings, in a deal valued at ?170 million, or about…
... the Activite, an iPhone-compatible smartwatch that looks and works like ... -
Was Mike Daisey right about Apple being doomed?Back in November, theatrical performer Mike Daisey was given the opportunity to write about Apple <em>in the Technology section</em> of the <em>The G…
... and most valuable among other smartwatch vendors. This quarter, Apple's ... -
Apple Watch shipped 2.2M units in March quarter, but lost marketshare, estimates claimApple shipped about 2.2 million Apple Watches in the March quarter, although it still saw its share of the smartwatch market slip to 52.4 percent, ac…
... saw its share of the smartwatch market slip to 52.4 ... biggest individual rival in the smartwatch space -- actually saw its share ... -
Fitbit CEO says Apple Watch 'wrong way' to approach wearablesJames Park, chief executive at Fitbit, in an interview published Monday described how his company was able to withstand what many viewed as direct co…
... $50 Zip to the $200 smartwatch-esque Blaze. Hitting niche demographics ... -
Fitness bands outselling all other wearables, including Apple Watch, research findsDespite devices like the Apple Watch nominally being able to do more, dedicated fitness bands are vastly outselling other wearables in the U.S., acco…
... published on Wednesday. Fitbit's smartwatch-like Blaze tracker. Three out ... making things more complicated. Most smartwatch makers, he said, are trying ... -
Fitbit's 'basic' devices dominate wearables market, Apple Watch sneaks into thirdAs the wearables market continues to evolve, new data shows a widening gap between basic and affordable fitness bands and more complex, do-it-all dev…
... of the market. In the smartwatch segment, IDC estimates that Apple ... -
Proposed Pebble Time smart band could add standalone GPS, double battery life to 14 daysWhile patents reveal Apple has explored the possibility of adding new functionality to the Apple Watch with connectable smart bands, a new Kickstarte…
... band for the Pebble Time smartwatch. A crowdfunding campaign for the ... -
How Apple Watch became the iPod of the futureWhile ridiculed by many as a flop and often misunderstood as a product, Apple Watch has very successfully worked to turn around the fortunes of Apple…
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Google I/O 2016: Android's failure to innovate hands Apple free run at WWDCRather than focusing on the incremental innovation needed to win back the attention of enterprise users and premium consumers, Google's vision for An…
... /O hardware initiative. Remember the smartwatch? Samsung and Google paraded around ... and can't sell a smartwatch at any price are going ... -
Apple's iPhone is no Blackberry: a closer look at AI and the world's biggest companyLast week, developer Marco Arment suggested in a blog posting that if Apple were to fail to grasp the potential for voice-based Artificial Intelligen…
... what just occured in the "smartwatch" business? Apple showed up two ... -
Samsung unveils Gear IconX wireless earbuds with health tracking functionsAs part of continued efforts to break into the health and fitness market, Samsung on Thursday added two new products to its wearable device lineup, i…
... version of its Gear Fit2 smartwatch featuring a 1.5-inch ... -
Fueled by Apple Watch, smartwatch prices surge as basic activity trackers tumbleThough prices on activity trackers continue to drop, average selling prices on wearable devices still saw a major increase in the first quarter of 20…
Though prices on activity trackers continue to drop, average selling prices on wearable devices still saw a major increase in the first quarter of 2016, boosted in large part by the availability of the premium-priced Apple Watch, according to new research ...
