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Category Archives: Wireless

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Vitogo: A personal trainer in your pocket

We recently spoke with Arel English (@arelenglish), CEO and co-founder of Vitogo (@myvitogo), about their integration with the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) and how being a Health Graph partner is benefiting their business. Read on to learn about how Vitogo recreates what a personal trainer does for you using your iOS device and the web. Bill [...]

Scosche myTREK: Health Graph wireless pulse monitoring on your forearm

We’ve previously featured Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) applications and third party libraries in our ongoing partner profiles series. This time, we turn our attention to a device partner, Scosche Industries (@scosche), and their Health Graph-integrated myTrek device. Read on to learn more about myTrek and how Scosche is taking advantage of the Health Graph. Bill Day: [...]

Health Graph update from Le Web (video)

Our CEO Jason Jacobs (@jjacobs22) provided a great update on the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) in his discussion with Leo Laporte (@leolaporte) at Le Web (@leweb). Click here or watch the embedded video below.

Nexercise makes fitness fun with the Health Graph

Fitness games are an important and growing segment of the health and fitness landscape, and we’re very happy to have some several fantastic partners implementing games on top of the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi). Case in point: Nexercise (@nexercise), our featured partner this week. Bill Day: Please tell us about yourself and your company. Benjamin Young: [...]

Social workouts with Fitness Tracker 90 CE and the Health Graph

Are you a developer with an idea for using the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) but no company (yet) to help you build it? Take inspiration from this week’s featured partner, Steve Chen of SJC Global, Inc., who built Fitness Tracker 90 CE (@iFitnessTracker) himself while holding down a separate full-time job. You can do it too! [...]

Android Open 2011 Highlights

This October I was able to attend both the O’Reilly Android Open (@androidopen) and X.commerce Innovate conferences back-to-back in San Francisco. I wrote more about Innovate in a separate DevZone article. This time, I’d like to break down the most interesting bits of Android Open from a developer-centric perspective. Fascinating morning keynotes Android Open was [...]

Innovate 2011 Highlights

I was recently privileged to attend both the O’Reilly Android Open and X.commerce Innovate conferences back-to-back in San Francisco. Both were mind and network expanding events, and I’d highly recommend either to developers and business colleagues considering attending next year. I hope to write more about my key takeaways from Android Open at some point [...]

Corporate wellness, meet Limeade and the Health Graph

I’m very pleased to continue our series of Health Graph partner profiles with a discussion with Erick Rivas (@erickrivas) of Limeade (@limeade). Limeade is a leading corporate wellness provider that recently announced support for RunKeeper and other Health Graph API (@healthgraphapi) partner devices and apps in their Limeade Open App & Device Platform. Read on [...]

Fleetly delights users via Health Graph integration

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Geoff Pitfield (@gpitfield) of Fleetly (@fleetly) about his company and their new Fleetly app release which now includes support for RunKeeper users via Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) integration. Here’s an inside look at how one developer keeps their users happy and healthy with the Health Graph. Bill Day: [...]

RunKeeper adds auto-pause, heart rate zones, and more!

We’ve been hard at work adding features users have been requesting to the RunKeeper app! Now available in both iPhone and Android versions: Auto pause – RunKeeper can automatically pause tracking when you stop moving Heart rate zone – RunKeeper can chart information from compatible heart rate monitors; can also provide audio cues to help [...]