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Pebble Steel – The First Smartwatch Worth Wearing

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The Pebble was the smartwatch that started it all — and by “all” we mean a general interest in smartphone notifications on the wrist and a handful of “me too” devices from larger tech companies. Fittingly, the second-gen Pebble Steel comes boasting another distinction: It’s the first smartwatch a normal person might actually want to wear.

From the beginning, Pebble was designed purely as a smartphone aide. An unassuming two-tone, e-ink screen relayed notifications, text messages, and calls from your smartphone to your wrist using Bluetooth. It wasn’t much of a looker — “sporty” might be a charitable way of describing it — but at least the watch face was more reasonably sized than recent competitors like the Qualcomm Toq and Samsung Galaxy Gear.

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Cerberus Is Also Interested In Buying BlackBerry

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Private equity firm Cerberus is interested in taking a look at BlackBerry’s books as a prelude to a possible bid for the troubled smartphone company.

Cerberus is looking to sign a confidentiality agreement with BlackBerry that would allow it to access the company’s private information, an official familiar with the situation said Wednesday on condition of anonymity. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the private talks.

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An attendee views the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone during the company’s annual general meeting in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. BlackBerrys chances of becoming a viable contender to Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in the smartphone market are dimming amid lackluster demand for its flagship touch-screen device. Photographer: Pawel Dwulit/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Getty
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It’s a Go for Omate’s Android-Powered Smartwatch

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With nearly a month to spare, startup Omate burst through its Kickstarter goal of US$100,000 this week and is on its way to shipping its TruSmart smartwatch in time for the holiday season.

More than $250,000 have been pledged so far toward the device, which is perhaps the closest thing yet to an Android smartphone that can be worn on a wrist.

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Nokia Lumia 1020 (EOS)

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Conclusion: We like it

Nokia’s latest PureView-packing smartphone looks a lot like the previous Lumia 920, but it’s slimmer and provides a much-improved PureView experience. However, its high price is going to make it enticing only to those who need the best smartphone camera on the market. The Lumia 1020 keeps the same Lumia styling we’ve come to know and love, but even with the smallish bump on the back for the camera it still comes in lighter than the Lumia 920, leading phoneArena to say they’re “surprised how light it really is.”

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Harald Haas: Wireless Data From Every Lightbulb

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Watch the University of Edinburgh’s Harald Haas discuss how future wireless data can be transmitted through lightbulbs.

When we use smartphones or tablet PCs to surf the internet, check emails, share pictures, engage in social networking, or store information in a cloud, we make use of wireless communications technology.

Traditionally, all the information we move around with these devices is transmitted using radio frequency spectrum. The more data we generate, the more radio frequency spectrum we need.

It is forecast that by the year 2015, we will transmit six exabytes — six billion, billion bytes — every month through wireless networks. This is a ten-fold increase on the amount of data we send now.

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Chirp app sends smartphone data via ‘digital birdsong’

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An app that transmits data via a burst of “digital birdsong” aims to simplify the way users share images and other files between smartphones.

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