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Complaints Pop Up for Jawbone’s UP

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 1, 2011 at 11:35 am PT

After the splashy launch of a new health-tracking wristband, the maker of slick consumer devices gets some complaints about glitches in the device.

Jawbone Debuts UP, Which Tracks, Well, You (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

It’s UP to you to get in better shape.

Plantronics’ Latest Headset Talks You Through the Set-Up

Ina Fried in Mobile on September 28, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

The Marque Bluetooth headset offers step-by-step instructions on pairing, spoken through the device. It is also designed to take calls just by saying “answer.” Now if only it didn’t look so dorky …

Jawbone Nabs $70 Million in a Jammed Box of Funding

Kara Swisher in Mobile on July 12, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT

Jawbone, the maker of elegant mobile and wireless devices, has added $70 million in funding to its coffers, with a new investment from J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of $170 million from a panoply of high-profile investors, all of whom are making a big bet on consumer electronics, an always dicey arena, and on Jawbone’s innovative products, such as its initial Bluetooth headsets and its more recent nifty Jambox wireless speakers.

Plantronics Aims to Make Conference Calls Less Painful

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 8, 2010 at 6:15 pm PT

So, dialing in to a conference call can be pretty painful, right? Trying to enter all those numbers, switching back and forth to the calendar app from the dialer. Well, Plantronics has an app for that.

Jawbone: You Won’t Pay a Penny for Our Thoughts

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 7, 2010 at 4:15 pm PT

Headset maker Jawbone thinks it has found another nifty use for its electronic earwear. The company is using D: Dive Into Mobile to announce Thoughts, an iPhone app that lets road warriors dictate a quick thought that gets delivered as an audio file to whomever they like. The audio file gets sent to a recipients’ Thoughts app, or via email or a text message link.

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on November 30, 2010 at 6:32 pm PT

Palm-CEO-turned-HP-exec Jon Rubinstein and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs faced off with Kara Swisher of All Things Digital at a Churchill Club event Tuesday night in an entertaining discussion on the future of mobile tech. Here’s my liveblog of the event.

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Silicon Valley's Latest Geek: Barbie Gets a CS Degree

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on November 23, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Of course, All Things Digital went. How could we not, what with Microsoft, Mattel and the Girl Scouts of America holding a joint event last week to talk up their new partnership aimed at halting the expanding gender gap in the tech sector. Their weapon of choice? Barbie.

Aliph Collaboration Deal With Cisco for Jawbones in the Workplace Launches

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

In April, Cisco unveiled a wide-ranging collaboration with Aliph–a San Francisco start-up that is famous for the noise-canceling Jawbone Bluetooth mobile headset–to deploy its software and device in Cisco’s IP phones in the enterprise. It launches today. The idea is to use the Jawbone device and the software that manages it to allow workers to move around an office and have the call move with them, echoing increasingly mobile consumer behavior.