If you were worried about your smartwatch not lasting the day, Huawei has the watch for you — as well as new phones with Leica cameras. The Chinese company wheeled out the Watch 2 wearable and P10 smartphones at a press conference in Barcelona today. They’re among the countless new products to be unveiled this …
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Usernames and passwords leaked onto the open internet earlier this month because of a security bug that affected 3,400 websites, including popular services like Uber, Fitbit and OkCupid. You wouldn’t mind if someone could break into the personal accounts you use to track your movements, your fitness and your love life, would you? While there’s no indication that hackers actually …
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Now playing: Watch this: Fitbit picked up Pebble for just $23 million 1:18 Pebble’s assets and intellectual property were acquired by Fitbit in December. Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit, one of the biggest names in fitness trackers, paid $23 million to acquire the assets and intellectual property of Pebble, one of wearable’s early stars. The sales price was revealed Wednesday in a …
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Wearables and smartwatches aren’t all disappointments. While Fitbit is expected to announce a holiday sales letdown over the last quarter, rival Garmin’s fourth quarter earnings financial results saw an overall 10 percent revenue increase, and the success was due to the company’s fitness and outdoors products. Garmin’s outdoor, fitness, marine and aviation units, in particular, saw the greatest growth. The …
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Google’s Android Wear 2.0 watch platform is the company’s biggest shot yet at jumping into the fitness tracking world dominated by companies like Fitbit. Is it there yet? Not quite. The company’s revamped smartwatch operating system improves upon many of the problems that plagued Android Wear watches for the past two and a half years. I’ve had a chance to …
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Your Fitbit is about to get better. The wearable company on Thursday here at CES announced updates for its mobile app that will add a bunch of new features to help you connect with others and better achieve your fitness goals for the new year. Here’s everything that’s coming to the Fitbit app: Personal goal setting You previously had the …
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Fitbit has withdrawn a year-old patent complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission that sought a ban on the import of Jawbone’s fitness tracker into the US. Fitbit, also a fitness tracker maker, told the ITC in a Friday filing that it’s no longer pursing patent claims against Jawbone because its rival appears to be in financial turmoil. Jawbone …
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Fitbit on Wednesday announced a software update for its flagship Charge 2 fitness tracker. The update addresses numerous complaints users had with the device, specifically those with workout modes. User will now have the ability to pause and resume workouts. The update also adds a Do Not Disturb mode that will disable notifications when enabled. Other changes include a new …
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Fitbit’s latest earnings reports weren’t good at all. Pebble sold itself at a firesale price (to Fitbit) and cancelled its future watches. Microsoft, Motorola and Intel appear to have halted (or at least suspended) their wearable product lines. The Samsung Gear S3 slid into the holidays with a whimper, not a bang. And while Apple claims it just had its …
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