Wearable technology will see a considerable rise by 2016

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Recent Gartner research has predicted that in two years, 40 percent of wrist-worn devices will be smartwatches. Gartner, the respected market research firm, has now released a new report that has predicted that by the close of 2016, 40 percent of all devices worn on the wrist will come from the smartwatch category of wearable technology. This forecast comes as waves of companies have started to announce, unveil, or sell wearables of this nature. Two years ago, the wearable technology market saw only two companies that were actually selling smartwatches.…

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Smartwatches from Sony won’t be Android Wear, yet

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Though the wearable technology manufacturer isn’t using it now, it hasn’t ruled it out for the future. Sony has announced that when it comes to its smartwatches and other wearables, it will not be using Android Wear at the moment, however, they did release an updated statement shortly after the initial one that it intends to “evaluate opportunities across a number of areas,” suggesting that Google’s wearable technology operating system hasn’t been entirely ruled out. This announcement was made by the head of the U.S. arm of Sony Mobile, Ravi…

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