The future of fitness: Bluetooth opens up with new running, cycling standards

With the approval of a new pair of protocol standards, expect to see a lot more Bluetooth fitness devices in the near future.

Samsung, Nokia, and Qualcomm team up to improve indoor location technology

Indoor location technology is going to get a lot more precise, thanks to a new alliance formed between twenty two technology companies.

Funding Daily: venture capital makes it rain with downpour of investment

Funding news flooded our wire today with so many announcements and releases, it was like swimming upstream in a hurricane to keep up with it all. We’re having to include a lightning round below just to cover all the bases. …

With cash to burn, Samsung buys chip maker CSR’s mobile business for $310M

Bolstered by big smartphone sales, Samsung has some money to throw around. So it’s going shopping.

First on its list is the mobile division of British chip maker CSR, which Samsung has bought for $310 million. The all-cash deal gives …

CSR shows how your phone can navigate inside large buildings

CSR, the leading maker of navigation chips, showed how you can use its upcoming platform to find your way inside large buildings such as the giant Las Vegas Convention Center. Now a combination of several new technologies makes it possible …

CSR demos technology for tracking mobile devices indoors

CSR is adding the new feature of indoor tracking to its line of SiRFusion location technology, the company announced today.

The chip-making company is demonstrating the technology today at the Locations & Beyond Summit in San Francisco. CSR has pulled …