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Exclusive: Nike FuelBand engineers courted by Nest, Oculus, Intel, and Microsoft

Sarah Tew/CNET Nike engineers and other hardware and manufacturing experts from the company’s FuelBand team are at the top of the recruitment list for high-profile tech firms racing to deliver new products in emerging categories like wearable technology. Related Stories Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware Nike CEO confirms FuelBand focus now on software, …

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Farewell Nokia: The rise and fall of a mobile pioneer

Nokia’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, is known as Nokia House, or NoHo, and is the centerpiece of an industrial park on the bay. It’s about a 10-minute drive from the center of neighboring Helsinki. Roger Cheng/CNET You never forget your first cellphone. Mine was the Nokia 5190. By today’s standards, it was bulky and embarrassingly lacking in features. It made …

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