Monthly Archives: January 2014
FitBit Flex Wristband Tracks Health, Syncs to iPhone, Android
Digital health and wellness specialist Fitbit debuted the Flex Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband, which syncs with Bluetooth 4.0 to track activity and sleep...
Yahoo Tech, Food and News Digest Among Reveals in Mayer Keynote
Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech and Yahoo News Digest were among the new products Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer introduced during a keynote address delivered before...
CES Provides Lessons for Consumer IT Vendors that Chose to Stay Home
I’m not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. It's much better to cover the event indoors back home in the frozen North. However,...
Bing Courts Webmasters With Knowledge Widget
Microsoft is opening a new front in the search engine wars with a Bing-powered Website widget that adds supplemental information to Web content.The new...
Samsung Enterprise Services Is Latest Effort to Secure BlackBerry’s Customers
Samsung continues its aggressive pursuit of enterprise customers with the Jan. 6 introduction of Samsung Enterprise Services, a portfolio of services to support customers...
Co3 Names Security Expert Bruce Schneier as CTO
Security incident-response vendor Co3 Systems this week announced that security luminary Bruce Schneier is joining the firm as its new chief technology officer. Schneier...
T-Mobile’s Marketing Campaign Shows Why a Sprint Buyout Is a Bad Idea
T-Mobile CEO John Legere will announce on Jan. 8 the next step in the wireless carrier's "Un-carrier" marketing campaign. This time, apparently, T-Mobile will...
Google, Apple, Others to Pay Bus Stop Use Fees in San Francisco
Google, Apple, Facebook and other businesses, from universities to hospitals, have been using private buses in San Francisco to pick up employees and bring...
Oracle Builds Out SDN Portfolio With Corente Buy
Oracle is pushing deeper into the networking space, with plans to buy Corente, a company with expertise in software-defined networks for WAN environments.Oracle officials...
Sony Intros Xperia Z1 Compact, SmartBand Bracelet, With Built-In Wow
Sony introduced the Xperia Z1 Compact at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 6. The phone is a petite follow-up to...