Jawbone’s Up24 fitness tracker lands in the UK, Europe and Asia

If you’ve been eagerly waiting for Jawbone to bring its first wireless fitness tracker to your locale, today could be your lucky day. After a period of exclusivity in the US, the accessory maker has expanded sales of its Up24 wristband to 29 new markets (including the UK, China and Japan) letting customers enjoy low-energy Bluetooth support that Fitbit and others have been offering for more than a year. The launch is timely, given that Jawbone recently updated its Android app with wireless syncing and push notifications to get the most out of the rubberized wearable. As with all its products, Jawbone’s making the Up24 available to buy on its local webstore, but the company is also enlisting the help of Apple and Amazon to manage sales. Prices start at £125 in the UK and €149.95 in Europe, but do make sure to check out the full list of confirmed markets after the break.

Available markets include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Australia.

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How your Data Reaches the Data Center

Presented By Telx Data Centers

The ever expanding digital world is connected in all aspects. What you connect to from the comfort of your own home can be traced and reported to a hub millions of miles away without you knowing.

Your modem collects the information that is extracted by your router and sent to your ISP. This is then processed to a larger internet system before it reaches the internet backbone. The data centers receive the electronic information transferred from the backbone.

At this stage, the data you search for or carry is secured in the data centre where users are able to access mostly for an optimized marketing strategy.

Drobo’s new storage box is faster, better at Mac backups

Drobo is kicking off its “biggest year” yet with an update to its eponymous flagship. The Drobo Gen 3 gains super-charged internals and Time Machine support that’ll banish your bad memories of trying to use Apple’s backup utility on older versions of the hardware. Rather than it eating a whole drive, users can now create a dedicated partition in the admin panel without any complicated tweaking. Pre-orders begin from today to ship at the end of April, with the base model setting you back $350 and running all the way to $1,450 if you want a 16TB unit. Unless, that is, you already own a first-or-second-gen Drobo, in which case you’ll get a $50 discount if you order before June 9th.

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V-Moda wants you to ditch earbuds for these extra-portable XS headphones

I’ve long been a fan of V-Moda’s headphones. They’re well made, customizable with engraved plates and, most importantly, they sound great. If anything has stopped me from wearing the company’s over-ears consistently, though, it’s that they’re a tad too bulky for on-the-go use. That’s where V-Moda’s new XS cans come in — as the name implies, these over-ears are slim and portable. The “CliqFold” hinge lets you collapse the headphones into a small carrying case, but even without folding them they are small enough to fit into a briefcase, smallish bag or even a particularly deep jacket pocket. Speaking of deep pockets, the XS costs $200, which is $100 less than the over-ear M-100s, but still not exactly cheap. In any case, I’ve spent the last few weeks wearing the XS in the office, on long-haul flights and during commutes. Head past the break for a closer look.

The XS are quite comfortable, with foam cushions and a form-fitting headband. Music sounds clear and rich, even if bass is weak compared to sound on the M-100. Val Kolton, V-Moda’s perfectionist CEO, told me he’s hoping to convert those who favor in-ear buds with this latest set. Sure, the XS is still significantly bigger than Apple’s EarPods and the like, but the payoff is superior sound quality thanks to 40mm dual-diaphragm drivers (with an inside and outside ring) and a promised sound variance of no more than 1dB. There’s noise isolation instead of cancellation, as with V-Moda’s other products, but it works well enough that you’ll have to take the cans off to hear the flight attendant. Of course, there’s also the fashion draw; these headphones look sharp in either matte black or (the admittedly very feminine) white silver. V-Moda ships the XS with the customary exoskeleton case, but it’s sized down to match the new headphones’ leaner profile. You can nab the XS for yourself via the source link below.

Update: The product page is currently showing a very inaccurate price point, but that should be fixed within the hour.

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