Apple has hired Nike’s top Fuel Band designer Ben Schaffer. He was a Nike’s Studio Director of the Innovation Kitchen and under his lead Nike was named the most innovative company in 2013 by Fast Company. Ben’s experience in working on the wearables with Nike will be critical, because Apple is developing its own wearable watch-like device. But it also seems possible that Apple could be working on wearables beyond those for the wrist. Tony Fadell, former Apple executive, recently revealed that Apple toyed around with wearables akin to Google Glass. Continue reading »

tags: Apple, Ben Schaffer, Fuel Band, Google Glass, Innovation Kitchen, Nike. Fast Company, studio director, Tony Fadell, wearable devices

It’s official that Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company was trying to play in the pure storage business, but this market became increasingly commoditized by Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine and Windows Azure. They have all been engaging in a price war and Nirvanix couldn’t offer no service on top of its storage, that’s why it couldn’t survive. The company has already closed its website, leaving just a statement and information how to get in touch with customer support. Nirvanix is putting its resources behind helping customers successfully move their data to different services, but customers need to actively participate in getting their data off the Nirvanix infrastructure. Continue reading »

tags: Amazon Web Services, cloud storage, Google Compute Engine, Nirvanix, Nirvanix cloud storage service, Windows Azure