The best second-screen apps for watching the 2016 Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics spawned a digital deluge. There were reportedly 15 million downloads of the official London Olympics app, and 60 percent of visits to the  Olympics website came from mobile devices. Social media buzzed with hundreds of millions

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Hands on with the Polar M600: The ultimate fitness-centric smartwatch is just a little too big

I’m not a gym rat, nor do I get pumped up to ride my bike for hours on end. It takes a lot to convince me to leave the house and sweat. Still, there’s something particularly convincing about the new

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Samsung Galaxy S7 tops the charts as best-selling Android smartphone of first half of 2016Samsung,Galaxy,S7,tops,the,charts,as,best-selling,Android,smartphone,of,first,half,of,2016

Today has been all about the Samsung Galaxy Note7, finally announced this morning at Samsung’s Unpacked event in NYC. Even as we expect the Note7 to be successful as well, research firm Strategy Analytics says that an estimated 13.3 million

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The most interesting thing about Philips’ new health gadgets is their FDA status

Forget about fashion aesthetics and the squishy parameters of “fitness goals.” Today Philips enters the U.S. connected health market with five new gadgets, and while the devices aren’t particularly innovative—or even pretty—they do have one feature that less trend-conscious consumers

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Microsoft only sold around 1.2 million Lumia phones in the April to June quarter

Although Microsoft hasn’t revealed how many Lumia smartphones it sold in the second quarter of this year through its regular quarterly financial results, the company has an SEC filing out today that clears that up. In the document, Microsoft mentions

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