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Nike adds friends, leader boards to FuelBand iOS app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Nike continues to improve the now 1-year-old Nike+ FuelBand by adding new features to its iOS app. The latest version ups your motivation by letting you compare your level of fitness with your friends. The new Nike+ Friends feature has a custom leader board that pulls in information from your ...

Nike+ FuelBand app will stay iOS-exclusive for now

by Randy Nelson (Feb 11th, 2013)

The Nike+ FuelBand is a smart bracelet that keeps track of your exercising, such as running -- dashing, if you will -- and now the sports brand has dashed the hopes of Android users hoping for a companion app, saying that it will be sticking with an iOS-only approach for the foreseeable ...

Fitbit introduces Flex wristband at CES 2013

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2013)

Fitbit is one of the oldest names in fitness tracking these days, though given how new the industry actually is, the company's not really that old at all. But they have been around for a few years now, and this year at CES, the company introduced one more addition to its line of motion-based ...

Nike announces iPhone-ready Nike+ Accelerator

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 10th, 2012)

Nike is creating a fellowship of Nike+ companies with the Nike+ Accelerator program in a quest to make the world more active. Powered by TechStars, Nike will host 10 companies that want to develop products using Nike+ and will guide them through development utilizing the Nike+ API and SDK. ...

New Nike+ shoes further enhance digital training

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2012)

The Verge has a long look at the latest improvements to Nike's Nike+ fitness system, which uses sensors in your shoes (and on the company's very popular Fuelband peripheral) to calculate fitness and workout information, and attempt to help keep you motivated while working out. The whole system ...

Nike+ FuelBand adds support for Path app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 29th, 2012)

Nike launched its FuelBand exercise assistant earlier this year and the device took off. Nike is releasing a significant update today that'll add support for the Path social network. This new Path feature will let users tie their FuelBand earnings with their status updates on Path. Users can ...

Nike+ not working? Nike says sorry, and is working on the problem

by Chris Rawson (Sep 2nd, 2011)

If you're a Nike+ user and you've been experiencing issues with the service lately, you're not alone. According to TechCrunch, enough users have been having problems with Nike+ over the past few months that Nike has sent an email to users apologizing for the service's troubles and promising a ...

Nike+ GPS app free in the App Store now

by Michael Grothaus (May 23rd, 2011)

Nike+ is about to turn five years old, and they are celebrating by giving their Nike+ GPS app away for free for a limited time. The app is similar to other run-tracking apps, but it's got a much cleaner interface than most and a color-coded map line so that you can see the parts of your run where ...

Jobs reportedly told Nike "Get rid of the crappy stuff"

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 17th, 2011)

Steve Jobs is often regarded as a visionary who rejoined a failing Apple in 1996 and propelled it to the top of the electronics industry. As a result, people are combing through Jobs' history to find the secret to his success. Carmine Gallo of Forbes stumbled on an interesting conversation Jobs ...

Nike+ GPS app adds new Tag feature to foster competition between friends

by Mike Schramm (Jan 15th, 2011)

We just talked to Nike last week about its Nike+ GPS app for the iPhone, and there's another update to the already full-featured app. A new feature called Tag brings competition into Nike+ GPS. After you finish a run in the app, you can press the Tag button to invite as many of your friends or ...

Nike+ app upgraded with Facebook integration

by Dave Caolo (Oct 8th, 2010)

Nike has updated Nike+ GPS once again, this time with support for Facebook notifications. Basically, users can request encouragement from their Facebook friends from within the app. After enabling the option to "get cheers" from Facebook, runners can start their run while the app publishes the ...

Run app updates: News on the Nike+, Runkeeper, and Runmeter fronts

by Erica Sadun (Sep 7th, 2010)

I admit it. I've always thought that the Nike+ shoe sensor thing was kind of lame. Even though I actually do own the right shoes, I never thought it worth while to pick up the optional pedometer sensor just so I could take advantage of the built-in iPhone feature. I know that there are people out ...

Nike plus is a minus on iOS 4

by Sang Tang (Aug 12th, 2010)

While iOS 4 is a significant upgrade to Apple's multi-touch operating system, it is not without its quirks. And one of these quirks (an extremely annoying one) is the Nike+ app. Simply put, the app is so buggy that it is almost unusable (the operative word here being "almost," since it takes a lot ...

User friendliness, new features highlight Nike+ site redesign

by Sang Tang (Jul 1st, 2009)

Since its introduction in May 2006, the look, feel and features of the Nike+ website have undergone relatively minor changes. Which makes the redesign (still in beta) of the site all the more noteworthy. By putting familiar faces in different places, as well as adding some new faces, Nike has added ...

TUAW First Look: Nike+iPod on your iPhone 3GS

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 24th, 2009)

When the second generation of iPod touch was announced, one slide on the presentation included built-in support for the Nike+iPod sensor. The cool thing was that you no longer needed the unsightly dongle hanging off your device. The touch just "sees" the Nike sensor and you could add it to the ...