Very late last year, Tel Aviv-based business-to-business company LawGeex announced that total 2018 investment in legal technology — a.k.a. “law tech” or (more frequently) “legal tech” — had surpassed US$1 billion. That was up from the US$233 million invested in [...]
Deborah Ginsberg doesn’t teach a specific legal technology class at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Instead, the educational technology law librarian goes to various classes and provides students with information relevant to legal practice areas taught in the course. “I do [...]
Whether you watched IBM’s “Deep Blue” defeat a world chess champion, interacted with a chatbot while shopping online, or simply marveled at Amazon’s ability to suggest new offerings tailored to your interests, chances are you’ve already experienced artificial intelligence, or [...]
The wearables market may have slowed but developments in sensing technology and AI suggest we haven’t seen anything yet. In the past decade technology has started to play an increasingly important role in the provision of healthcare, whether that’s in [...]
Jawbone is no more and we've known that for a while. It's been replaced by Jawbone Health a more health-focused platform that does still involve a wearable but more of the clinical-grade kind as opposed to a Fitbit Charge 3 rival. Since [...]
Last year, it looked like Jawbone was toast. The mobile technology company — which invented wireless phone headsets, Bluetooth speakers and fitness-minded wrist wearables — announced in July it was liquidating its assets. But now, with new investors and a [...]
US federal prosecutors charged six former and current Fitbit employees in an indictment filed yesterday for possession of stolen trade secrets from the company’s former rival Jawbone, as reported by The Associated Press. The indictment states that the six employees were former [...]
Jawbone fitness trackers are no longer for sale at Amazon, Selfridges and GroupOn after a Which? investigation. The consumer group found that the trackers were no longer supported, so anyone buying the gadget would be unable to measure their progress. [...]
Mobile tech company Jawbone is looking to pivot into the healthcare market, according to a recent report from Recode. The San Francisco-based company, which produced bluetooth earpieces and speakers, announced in July it was liquidating its assets. Now, Jawbone is [...]
News that Jawbone is to be liquidated might lead one to conclude that its life as a wearables business is over. But as the article by The Information, which originally reported this story, notes, founder Hosain Rahman hasn’t given up on the [...]