Runtastic's Orbit wearable and app offer 24-hour health tracking

There are certainly a variety of health and sports-focused wearable trackers in the market today and many of those interact with smartphone apps. Joining them is Runtastic's Orbit which is a 24-hour tracking device that allows users to track their daily movements, fitness activities and sleep cycles. In combination with the just-released Runtastic Me app, Orbit further expands the Runtastic Ecosystem and is the first Runtastic hardware product geared towards “anyone and everyone,” regardless of an individual’s affinity for sports or fitness. The Orbit is the company's first wearable device and the first product to be available in Canada through an online store (and soon retail).

New PressReader App feeds readers’ appetites for deeper news

Readers looking for top quality news on their mobile devices can now find the full content of their favorite news sources more easily with the release of a new version of the top digital news reader, PressReader. The company has released an updated version of its extremely popular iOS app, a digital news reader serving 30 million readers around the world with access to thousands of original newspapers and magazines.

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LG unveils stripped-down version of G3 in South Korea

It has been a custom for smartphone manufacturers to release lower spec’d versions of their flagship devices. That’s why LG unveiled a lower spec’d version of the G3. The G3 A is a 5.2-inch smartphone with a 1080p display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor (2.6GHz), Android KitKat, 2GB of RAM, 32GB built-in storage, and 13-megapixel camera that is the same one on the G3. It will be available through SK telecom.

Source: Engadget

Twitter rolls out tweet embed capability to Web version

We reported last June that Twitter is letting its users embed tweets within tweets on their iOS and Android apps. Whether you use it or not, the capability is making its way to Twitter.com. To embed tweets, you’re going to have to post it at the end of the new tweet. You can’t place them in any other position. It also just shows a minimized version of the tweet within the outer tweet. Are you going to be using this feature more now?

Source: Mashable