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LG’s Android Wear-based G Watch is now on sale across the world on Google Play and key retailers
Jul08
on July 8, 2014
at 2:49 am
LG took the wraps off the G Watch in March, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear, Google’s platform for wearables. Now the G Watch is finally available for purchase worldwide on Google Play and at select retailers — though we noted that not only is it not something you want to tote around town, it also has a couple of technical shortcomings. The G Watch can be bought both online and offline in 12 countries: the US, Canada, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia, India, Japan and South Korea. It will be available only at retailers in 15 other countries,…
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The wearables revolution isn’t going as planned. By now we’re supposed to all be tracking our steps via our wrist, checking our social feeds with head-mounted computers and basically using our smartphones as modems for our body-mounted technology. It hasn’t worked like that. So Google is stepping in with Android Wear a smartwatch variant of Android that ties watches to phones and makes them notification centers. Unlike Google Glass, it’s the wearable the search giant could get the public to actually buy. The LG G Watch is one of the first watches (along with the Samsung Gear Live and Moto 360) to…
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Foursquare’s Swarm iOS app gets mayor leaderboards for every check-in, easier sharing and more
Jul08
Foursquare today released an update to its Swarm app for iOS that now shows mayor leaderboards amongst your friends on every check-in. The app also now includes easier sharing to Facebook and Twitter, faster and more accurate check-ins, and photos from venues. Swarm launched in May in an effort by Foursquare to splinter off check-ins into a standalone app and reserve the main Foursquare app for location discovery. The company also moved to distance itself from the gamification features for which it had become known. For instance, mayorships are now competed within circles of friends, rather than service-wide. …
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Email is a painfully out-of-date technology, but it’s not going anywhere. A new startup, Inbox, is launching its “next-generation email platform” as an alternative to aging protocols like IMAP and SMTP. Before you email junkies get too excited, this is a platform play, so there’s no user-facing app just yet. The core of Inbox’s efforts is an Inbox Sync Engine for developers that adds a modern API on top of mail providers, including Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook.com. The engine itself is open source, but Inbox is planning to release a hosted SaaS version of its platform later this year. In…
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