"Wearables" news, interviews, and features

Slideshows about Wearables

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  IN PICTURES: Oracle User Experience (UX) Tour (+ 11 photos)

  The Oracle User Experience (UX) Tour, held in Sydney, included a partner expo and strategy presentations. The tour showcased the team’s work in the development of Oracle’s latest Cloud applications. It also offered a glimpse into the future of the Cloud user experience with IoT, visualisations, and wearables. Oracle regional managing director A/NZ, Tim Ebbeck, introduced the tour and Oracle group vice president of applications, user experience, Jeremy Ashley, spoke about how Oracle looks to embrace the challenges of Cloud and emerging consumer technology disruptions. According to Ebbeck and Ashley, a new strategic focus on design is required to face these challenges.

  IN PICTURES: Oracle User Experience (UX) Tour (+ 11 photos)
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  In Pictures: A visual history of the smartwatch

  With the impending release of the Apple Watch, the smartwatch market is set to take off in 2015. Here's how it got to this point.

  In Pictures: A visual history of the smartwatch
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  In Pictures: The wearables of Mobile World Congress.

  MWC stands for 'more wearables coming'.Wearable tech was big at CES, and now the mania continues at Mobile World Congress. This week’s line-up in Barcelona has included plenty of weird-looking things to put on your head - but we ignored all the headgear to focus on stuff normal people might want to actually wear.

  In Pictures: The wearables of Mobile World Congress.
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  In Pictures: 2014 by the numbers - Predictions and projections

  Cloud, mobility, Big Data, SDN, wearables -- see what’s in store for 2014

  In Pictures: 2014 by the numbers - Predictions and projections

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News about Wearables

• Samsung Pay connects Four

  First 'smartphone wallet provider' to launch with Big Four banks; CBA, NAB, Westpac and ANZ

• IBM's hub for wearables could have you out of the hospital faster

  The prototype device links to a host of wearables to gather health data for doctors

• Oakley and Intel pack a fitness coach into new pair of smart glasses

  Oakley's Radar Pace smart glasses have a voice-activated coaching system, thanks to technology from Intel

• Samsung's Tizen 3.0 to take on Android and iOS starting in September

  The company's mobile OS could face a more viable future in IoT

• Wearable devices security must be stepped up: Centrify

  More than two thirds of wearable owners use no login protection

• IN PICTURES: Oracle User Experience (UX) Tour (+ 11 photos)

  The Oracle User Experience (UX) Tour, held in Sydney, included a partner expo and strategy presentations. The tour showcased the team’s work in the development ...

Features about Wearables

• The future of displays: OLED is the technology to beat, but LCD will continue to dominate

  Those are two of the trends we gleaned from IHS DisplaySearch's annual flat-panel display conference, which took place last week.

• Is Apple Pay the killer app for Apple Watch?

  Huge consumer satisfaction among Apple Pay-using smartwatch owners

• Apple arrival triggers 170 per cent wearable market growth as “astounding demand” continues

  “The demand for basic wearables, those that do not run third party apps, has been absolutely astounding."

• Wearables for workplace wellness face federal scrutiny

  Federal regulators are weighing reforms to widespread workplace wellness programs.

• Time for disties to shine as Apple Watch triggers innovation in Australian wearables market

  Apple Watch set to spur greater innovation from other players in the industry and drive new partnerships amongst vendors and distributors.

• The 23 top Apple Watch apps you should get

  With more than 2200 Apple Watch apps already available, finding the best ones for new Watch owners isn't easy.