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By  Anthony Vecchione 05:02 pm August 30, 2024
Hyrox, a global fitness race for competitors, announced it is partnering with Zepp Health, a health technology company that manufactures smart wearable products, including its flagship wearable brand Amazfit.  Under the two-year partnership Amazfit will act as the official wearable and timekeeping partner of HYROX. The aim is to assist athletes' training regime and supply them with a user-...
By  Aditi Pai 07:56 am April 9, 2015
Fitbit Surge Fitbit announced today that it has changed the way it calculates and displays active minutes for users. The company explained that its activity trackers will only count active minutes if a user participates in an activity for over 10 minutes, which is what the American Heart Association recommends. This will not affect the user's step count numbers. "This 10-minute rule means that...
By  Aditi Pai 05:45 am October 30, 2014
Microsoft has officially launched a fitness-focused smart watch, called Microsoft Band as well as a new health tracking platform, called Microsoft Health. This announcement came just a week after another report leaked about the device. The product has been in development since 2010 when Microsoft launched the Kinect motion sensor for Xbox, Microsoft explains in a feature post. Microsoft Band, a...