Microsoft stops ‘smarthorloges’

Microsoft has the jack from the services for his smarthorloges met. That means that users no longer need information ingest on their watch. Previously on strike the company from Redmond is already selling the devices.

The internethorloges work with Microsoft’s own SPOT, technology that uses fm waves to carry data to the watches to send. This allowed users to news, sports scores and the weather in their diet. The data was obtained by the connection with the MSN Direct network, but this is now by the company from Redmond will be taken offline.

Microsoft introduced its SPOT services for more than ten years ago. These were except for watches also for navigation devices used. The watches with the services proved not a success, then the sales in 2008 was discontinued. Microsoft announced earlier that the MSN Direct was discontinued.

Recently, Apple and Motorola devices put on the market that if smart watches can be used. So it is possible to of the latest generation iPod Nano as a watch and came Motorola with its Motoactv, which Android runs. In addition, Google may with portable devices such as watches.