Under Armour, having spent hundreds of millions of dollars bulking up on software startups, is now showing its 2016 shape-up resolution: to turn itself from a fitness-apparel maker into a tech company. "This is the year that this gets woven together," Robin Thurston, Under Armour's senior vice president of Connected...
Bernard Moon is cofounder and general partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures, a new global seed-stage fund, and cofounder of SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Seoul, Korea. Twenty years ago, I was working on a consulting project for the City of St. Louis during my Coro Fellowship, a public service leadership program....
Guest author Mike Baird is the CEO and cofounder of healthcare technology firm Avizia. Telemedicine is experiencing a meteoric rise. More than half of all U.S. hospitals currently have a telemedicine program and there will be approximately 800,000 online consultations in the U.S. this year.BBC Research predicts that the global telemedicine...
The Apple Watch in action.The number of fronts where Apple and Google are battling directly seems to grow with each passing month: desktop OSes, mobile OSes, digital assistants, cloud-based office apps, smartwatches, maps, and so on and so on.Health apps and their underlying platforms have been on that list since...
Smartphones have gone from communications tools to our front door keys, light switches, remote controls, credit cards—and now driver’s licenses, at least in Iowa. According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa's Department of Transportation will offer digital driver’s licenses via a free mobile app that will launch next year. The virtual...
In the face of lagging sales, the century-old Girl Scouts of the USA organization will finally allow its young entrepreneurs to utilize technology to make sales. Called Digital Cookie, the marketing software will equip Girl Scouts to sell cookies online in one of two ways depending on their market area, the...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Another week, another Apple Health glitch.This time, it involves one of the most promising aspects of Apple's push into health tracking: blood-glucose monitoring. For people with diabetes, that's a crucial issue, and anything that promises to simplify...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.In June, Apple executive Craig Federighi unveiled HealthKit, a set of software tools for sweeping together data from a variety of fitness apps and devices. One of his examples: Fitbit, the biggest seller in the activity-band category.Four...
When U.S. government sites don't work the way they should, they aren't just unhelpful—they also make the federal government look like it's stuck in the 20th century.On Monday, the White House announced a new organization designed to help spruce up government websites and (it hopes) prevent another HealthCare.gov debacle. Called...
So many of our modern health problems stem from issues of abundance: fast food, car-friendly suburbs, and endless couch-borne entertainment.The cure for these, according to the quantified-self cult of Silicon Valley, is more data! Just collect information about every step we take, every beat of our heart, every toss we...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Yes, it’s tiresome how every new startup describes itself as an “X, but for Y." When an early employee of Uber started working on a doctors-on-demand service, everyone inevitably called it an “Uber for healthcare,” ridiculing it as...
I sometimes sport as many as four wearable devices. And my Exercise With It folder on my iPhone goes on for four screens. So I'm a prime candidate for the new health software Apple just unveiled. “The information gathered by [health and fitness] applications lives in silos,” said Apple executive...
Mash together most of today's hot technology buzzwords, and you'd have a good approximation of Samsung’s newly announced cloud platform for tracking health data via wearables and sensors.Slipping in just ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next week—during which Cupertino might well feature some new quantified health initiatives and even a...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.I spent Sunday afternoon judging Hackfit SF, a weekend-long competition to come up with the best new fitness app or gadget. I wasn't sure what to expect. For the most part, the hardware and software I use in...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.MyFitnessPal, the maker of a food-and-exercise-tracking app with more than 50 million users, is announcing the acquisition of online fitness-coaching service Sessions Wednesday morning, for an undisclosed amount.In November, I wrote that coaching was becoming the next...
My grandmother’s birthday was on Monday, and Facebook encouraged me to celebrate by posting a greeting to her wall, or virtually sending a birthday gift. Trouble is, my grandma is dead. Our lives are increasingly being monitored on social media. We’re inclined to share life’s biggest moments—births, graduations, engagements, and deaths...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. From December 2013 to January 2014, it is presented by Qualcomm Toq.December may seem like an odd time of year to double down on writing about fitness. The holiday season brings the culinary debacle of Thanksgiving...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.It was 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, I was fighting off a cold, running on too little sleep, and generally not feeling up to an outdoor workout on Telegraph Hill. But I'd promised Nick Crocker, the founder...
Over the past decade, I've watched open source become standard operating procedure within large and small enterprises. Once confined to software, open source is at the heart of a hardware revolution led by Facebook, not to mention bleeding over into other industries. There's even an open source ski boot now. But...
I grew up in an analog world. My books were made out of paper. My music was made out of tape and later discs. So were the movies I watched. This age is gone. Everything I do now has been digitized, packaged in gadgets that comes with me everywhere I...
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