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Nike+ GPS app adds new Tag feature to foster competition between friends
Nike+ GPS app adds new Tag feature to foster competition between friends
by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 15th 2011 at 9:00AM
We just talked to Nike last week about its Nike+ GPS app for the iPhone, and there's another update to the already full-featured app. A new feature called Tag brings competition into Nike+ GPS. After you finish a run in the app, you can press the Tag button to invite as many of your friends or contacts to the game as you want; each user invited has to complete a certain goal within three days. The goal can be set for distance, time, or the last person to actually go running. At the end of the game, everyone gets to know who was "IT" -- whoever went the shortest or whoever ran last.
It's all meant in fun, but it seems like a cool, social way to keep your friends running, a little competition between fellow runners. There's a video, embedded after the break, that Nike put together to show how it all works. The Tag feature is a free update to current owners of the app, but new users will have to pick it up for the usual price of US$1.99.
Cool social gaming feature on Nike+ that promotes healthy activity.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Heading to clinic @skiliberty. The snow looks great
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Verizon to Sell Apple IPad That Connects Directly to Its Network - BusinessWeek
Verizon to Sell Apple IPad That Connects Directly to Its Network
January 11, 2011, 2:09 PM ESTMore From Businessweek
By Greg Bensinger
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Verizon Wireless will sell a version of Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer that can connect directly to its network, posing another challenge to AT&T Inc. as the carrier’s exclusive hold on the iPhone draws to a close.
Verizon will get an embedded chip in the iPad for use on its network, Francis Shammo, chief financial officer of Verizon Communications Inc., the parent of the wireless unit, said today in an interview in New York. IPad users currently need an extra device to connect to Verizon’s network. Shammo declined to say when the change may happen.
Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, began selling the iPad in its stores in a package with its credit card-sized Wi-Fi device in October for $629.99 to $829.99. Apple, which introduced the iPad in April, offers versions of the tablet that connect directly to AT&T’s network.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, sold about 7.5 million iPads through September and, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., may sell more than 37 million of the devices this year.
Verizon Wireless, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, said today it will begin selling the iPhone on its network to all customers on Feb. 10. AT&T, based in Dallas, had been the exclusive carrier of the smartphone since 2007.
Verizon Communications, which co-owns the wireless unit with Vodafone Group Plc, fell 72 cents to $35.20 at 2 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. AT&T declined 57 cents to $27.77.
--With assistance from Amy Thomson in New York. Editors: Ville Heiskanen, Nick Turner
To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Bensinger in New York at gbensinger1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Elstrom at pelstrom@bloomberg.net
So we have another feature to add to the speculative list of iPad2 features. Of course Apple Fans on Verizon can just buy a wi-fi only iPad and an iPhone 4 from Verizon and use the Personal hotspot feature in iOS 4.2.5 instead of purchasing a MiFi.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
A gaggle of @skiliberty instructors getting ready for the 4:30 lesson line up
Mark Scrimshire
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Friday, January 07, 2011
After doing a few bumps on the backside of @skiliberty
Mark Scrimshire
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