Launched amid concerns that it was a fad device that would generate interest but not sales the Samsung Gear smartwatch has generated sales that total over 800,000 units over the two months that the wearable device has been available.
The product’s sales actually exceeded company expectations and Samsung said that it would ramp up holiday promotions for the device to help maintain its momentum. Rivals sitting on the sidelines debating a wearable device are no doubt watching closely.
The Billy Goat Tavern to close? Say it ain’t so!
For fans of old Saturday Night Live episodes, ones that include the late John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, one of the staple skits was of a hamburger joint where they would shout out the orders such as “Cheezeborger” and say “No Coke-Pepsi” to orders.
Also well known to Chicagoans as the Billy Goat Tavern, a subterranean hangout of newspaper people for decades, it may be facing closure as redevelopment rears its ugly head, literally as the building above is being renovated. The Billy Goat home page has a link to SNL videos if you are too young to know what we are talking about. According to one local report, the tavern won’t move and may only close temporarily. Remember: No fries, chips.
Samsung has aggressive goals for its tablets
Samsung already seems to have a tablet size for every person’s needs, and now the company’s goal is apparently to sell one of its offerings to everyone as the company said that its goal in 2014 is to ship 100 million or more.
That would be double its expected 40 million that it will sell this year and would make it the leader in the tablet space, a position now owned by rival Apple’s iPad family.
MLB expands replay
Major League Baseball continues the advance of replay in games with a unanimous vote at the annual owners meeting in Orlando that saw all 30 owners vote for an expansion of the technology for use in more aspects of the game.
Among the changes will be managers getting a limited number of challenges, replays will all be handled from a central office at MLB’s Advanced Media site in New York and that some plays are not reviewable.
AT&T teams with Red Bull Racing
No you will not see someone wearing an AT&T headset while setting a new world record free fall (at least I don’t think so) but the telecommunications company has signed a deal to provide communication services to Red Bull’s Formula One Racing team.
The deal is more than just having race day team members being able to communicate but will connect geographically diverse locations such as Infiniti Red Bull’s HQ in the U.K. and its engine manufacturer in France.
Toshiba launches 7-inch Android tablet.
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has introduced the Excite 7, a seven-inch Android, the latest expansion to its Excite tablet family. It features a 1024 x 600 resolution display with a 1.6GHz quad core processor and 1GB of RAM
The device, which as a MSRP of $169.99 also includes a 3MP rear facing camera and a 0,3 MP front facing camera, and comes with either 8GB or 16GB of storage. It is currently shipping.
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