Tag: Watches and Clocks

Apple Watch Sales to Resume, for Now

Apple was resuming sales of its newest smartwatches on Thursday, a day after a federal appeals court temporarily reversed an earlier ban on their import and sale in the United States. But the watches’ fate will ultimately depend on how a continuing legal fight plays out in federal court over the next few weeks. The […]

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Apple to Pause Selling New Versions of Its Watch After Losing Patent Dispute

Apple said on Monday that it would pause sales of its flagship smartwatches online starting Thursday and at retail locations on Christmas Eve. Two months ago, Apple lost a patent case over the technology its smartwatches use to detect people’s pulse rate. The company was ordered to stop selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and […]

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Don’t Be Afraid of the iPhone’s NameDrop Feature, Experts Say

Police departments from New Jersey to California have been sounding the alarm in recent days about NameDrop, a new feature of the Apple iPhone’s latest operating system that allows users to wirelessly exchange contact information. Apple declined to comment, but experts say the warnings that “scammers and thieves” could exploit the feature to harvest a […]

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‘Timepiece Gentleman’ Swindled Customers Out of $3 Million, U.S. Says

The businessman collected the luxury watches from customers, promising them that he would sell the watches on consignment and take no more than a 5 percent fee, the authorities said. Instead, they said, he sold the Rolexes and other high-end pieces to fund a lavish Los Angeles lifestyle — driving a red Lamborghini and a […]

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Why Some Top Runners Prefer to Train Without a GPS Watch

As a decorated college runner at Notre Dame and then at the University of Tennessee, Dylan Jacobs dabbled with a device that many of his teammates considered indispensable. But on those rare occasions when Jacobs succumbed to peer pressure and slapped a GPS watch around his wrist, he almost immediately remembered why he had resisted […]

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