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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 ...

Apple has patented "smart garments"

by Dave Caolo (Sep 11th, 2008)

Would you believe an article of clothing that knows what you're doing? Apple has filed a patent for something called "smart garments." We can only assume this refers to something that will add functionality to the Nike+ kit, as it describes "...a method of electronically pairing a sensor and a ...

New iPod touch includes speakers, Nike+

by Robert Palmer (Sep 9th, 2008)

In its "Let's Rock" event today, Apple introduced three new iPod touch models, all of which are available today. $229 will get you 8GB of storage, $299 will buy 16GB, and $399 scores 32GB. That's knocking $70 to $100 off the price of each. The form factor is very slightly thinner, and has a similar ...

24 Hour Fitness will install Nike+ gym equipment

by Dave Caolo (Jun 27th, 2008)

Last year, we wrote about Life Fitness' plan to build exercise equipment with built-in iPod integration, allowing users do dock their iPod and control it from the machine itself. This week, 24 Hour Fitness (the largest fitness club chain in the United States) announced their intention to install ...

TUAW Responds: iPhone Pedometer

by Erica Sadun (Jun 26th, 2008)

One of our readers wrote in asking whether the iPhone could possibly replace the Nike sports kit and work as a pedometer with its onboard accelerometer. Short answer? It already does. The (jailbreak) iPhone pedometer project is open source and available on Google code. The iPhone's three onboard ...

Patent suggests additional Nike+ functions

by Dave Caolo (Apr 25th, 2008)

Apple and Nike have sold millions of those tiny little transmitters that fit inside running shoes, as well as the receivers that attach to iPod nanos. Casual runners and former couch potatoes enjoyed them (yours truly included), but more serious runners lamented the lack of certain features, most ...

Nike+ coming to iPhone and iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2008)

Multiple sources are repeating Stuff.tv's report that Apple is planning to bring the Nike+ system to the iPhone and iPod touch. Nike+ is of course a special kit, originally made for iPod nano, that will record the distance and length of a walk or run -- you stick the little sensor in your shoe, ...