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Apple hires two more Nike FuelBand engineers, looks to be focusing on wearable/fitness project

It all comes down to the recent hires. Per The Mac Observer, Apple has apparently snagged two former Nike FuelBand engineers for what could be its wearable technologies/iWatch project. The new hires are Jon Gale, who wrote FuelBand firmware code for Nike and Ryan Bailey, who worked as a hardware engineer on the FuelBand team. […]

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Nike axes the FuelBand and most of its development team

It looks like there will be one less company competing in the wearables market with the iWatch. According to CNET, Nike is closing down its wearable hardware development, which includes the FuelBand, in order to focus on its software efforts. As a result, the 70 employees on the FuelBand team are being let go, with […]

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Rumor: Microsoft working on “iWatch” device of its own

You know that rumor about Apple working on an iWatch of sorts? Microsoft may be working on its own. Per the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is apparently working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products. Earlier […]