First Investment Bank (Fibank), Mastercard and Garmin have partnered for the Garmin Pay watch in Bulgaria, Fibank announced in a press release on Monday (Sept. 30). Fibank customers will be able to digitize their Mastercards and use Garmin Pay on their smartphones and watches. Contactless...
Garmin’s newest collection of vívomove hybrid smartwatches will feature a host of innovations, including health and fitness data along with text message notifications, the company said in a press release on Thursday (Sept. 5). Smartwatch models in the new lineup — vívomove 3/3S, vívomove Style...
North rolled out a new update for its Focals augmented reality (AR) glasses that now supports Android notifications, The Verge reported on Friday (Aug. 30). Similar to Google Glass, North’s smart glasses let Android users access any actions in their phone’s notification center, like answering...
The headlines that started the month of August were less than thrilling for Fitbit — as some were beginning to wonder if Apple had already won the wearable war. Sales on the Versa Lite, Fitbit’s “affordable” answer to the Apple Watch (starting at $160) came...
New data revealed that the North American wearables market hit $2 billion in the second quarter of 2019, with a 38 percent increase year-over-year. Numbers from Canalys showed that the quarter’s growth was led by Apple and Samsung, which had 32 percent and 121 percent...
Livongo, a technology and health company that helps people with chronic conditions like diabetes, has announced that it will be able to connect to the Apple Watch, Fitbit and other wearables, according to a report by CNBC. While wearables were once totally focused on fitness,...
Shipments of wearables like Apple’s AirPods and Samsung headphones reached 49.6 million units during Q1 of 2019, a 55.2 percent increase from 2018, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). Most of the market is led by wrist-worn wearables, at 63.2 percent of market share,...
MoreThan has partnered with PitPat — which offers a FitBit type device for dogs — and will offer up to £100 in cash rewards for people who help their furry friends meet specific health goals. According to The Financial Times, customers who take out a...
New data is predicting that global shipments of wearable devices will reach 125.3 million units in 2018, a 8.5 percent increase from the previous year. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, the five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is...
