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Nike+ GPS App for iPhone Challenges All Fitness App Rivals

Nike+ was one of the first real mobile fitness systems, but it's fallen behind rivals like Runkeeper in recent years. The new Nike+ is a worthy challenger to those upstarts.READ»

Resort Combines Facebook Places, Gowalla, Nike+ for Social Media Skiing

This winter, skiers and snowboarders will be hitting the the slopes in a whole new way. Rather than just flying through moguls or sailing off half-pipes, mountain-goers might soon be "checking in."READ»

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Adidas' miCoach Personal Trainer iPhone App Is a Freeware Nike+ Rival

When Nike teamed with Apple several years ago for a fitness device that measures and records your pace and distance while running, it changed the workout world. Called Nike+, the small sensor could fit in your shoe, and sync ...READ»

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Steve Jobs' Advice to Nike: Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff [Video]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among the greatest innovators of our time. And yet his genius for understanding business is rarely explained in any public way. Rarer still is to hear the advice he would give to the CEO of another hugely ...READ»

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De La Soul Partners with Apple and Nike to Release First Album in Five Years

You may have forgotten about Apple's tiny, wireless iPod-linked in-shoe pedometer, the Nike+, but the runners who've chalked up 100 million miles haven't. And neither has Nike--it just partnered with De La Soul to release a new ...READ»

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Creative Reveals New "Zen Krystal" Media Player

Hot on the heels of the announcement of their new ZEN X-Fi media player is news of another Creative [OTC:CREAF] media player, apparently to be called the ZEN Krystal. When it comes to names, there's no accounting for taste -- one ...READ»