Collen Kriel

Collen Kriel is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE covering consumer technology with a focus on mobile. He has a passion for words, the Internet, the Web and all things tech. He endures a minor fascination with people who define themselves by the brand of smartphone they own. Prior to writing for SiliconANGLE he worked as an account executive in the IT industry, directly for, or in association with companies like Mimecast, IBM, VMware and Micros. He is an avid traveller currently making his way around South East Asia

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Smartwatches to incite ad spend to the tune of $70M by 2019, says report

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year a report surfaced that mobile advertising company TapSense was working on a programmatic ad platform to serve ads on the Apple Watch. Although it remains unclear how the platform may eventually integrate with Apple Watch – if at all …

Jawbone enters mobile payments market with new fitness band, lands $300M funding

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Jawbone, makers of fitness bands and other electronics, will start shipping its Up3 fitness tracker on April 20 after first announcing it in November. Coinciding with this, the company announced two new fitness trackers yesterday: the Up2, a midrange offering, and the …

Report: Samsung creates dedicated team to supply Apple with screens

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. has assembled a dedicated team of around 200 employees to work exclusively on producing screens for Apple’s iDevices. The team, formed April 1, falls under the purview of Samsung Display Co. and will focus on developing display technology for Apple’s …

Apple buys LinX Imaging, may bring thinner SLR-quality camera to next iPhone

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Apple has bought Israeli camera-technology company LinX Computational Imaging, Ltd. for a reported $20 million. The Wall Street Journal sought to confirm the acquisition and received Apple’s boilerplate response: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do …

Roundme brings virtual reality to iPhone on Google Cardboard

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Roundme, a free iOS app that takes users on virtual tours of real-world places through a series of connected 360-degree panoramic photos, now supports virtual reality on the Google Cardboard VR headset. Google Cardboard is a stripped down “VR headset” made from …

Apple, IBM expand partnership with Watson Health Cloud

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

IBM has announced the launch of a new cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud. The platform will enable storage of health-related data for physicians, researchers, insurers and companies in the healthcare sector. It will also enable the sharing of data from …

A sneak peek at Apple’s new Music app with beta release of iOS 8.4

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Following hot on the heels of the general release of iOS 8.3 last week, Apple yesterday released iOS 8.4 beta for developers. iOS 8.3 brought us a variety of new emoji, new Siri languages, updates and changes to CarPlay, and numerous bug …

Apple Watch gains a slew of new health care apps

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

On the back of a successful first weekend of pre-orders for the Apple Watch, and in conjunction with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference taking place in Chicago this week, a slew of healthcare companies yesterday announced Apple Watch …

3 of the most popular tech projects on Kickstarter right now

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

Crowdfunding has fast become the go-to resource for inventors, entrepreneurs and startups to fund their projects. In today’s roundup we take a look at three of the most popular projects in the tech category on Kickstarter at the moment. These projects have …

Report: Apple Watch hits nearly 1M pre-orders in U.S. on first day, Sport most popular

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL11 YEARS AGO

An estimated 957,000 Apple Watch pre-orders were placed in the U.S. on Friday, April 10, the first day Apple’s highly anticipated smartwatch went on sale. According to Slice Intelligence, a digital commerce measurement firm, e-receipt data from 9,080 online shoppers shows that …

Collen Kriel

Latest from Collen Kriel

Smartwatches to incite ad spend to the tune of $70M by 2019, says report

Jawbone enters mobile payments market with new fitness band, lands $300M funding

Report: Samsung creates dedicated team to supply Apple with screens

Apple buys LinX Imaging, may bring thinner SLR-quality camera to next iPhone

Roundme brings virtual reality to iPhone on Google Cardboard

Apple, IBM expand partnership with Watson Health Cloud

A sneak peek at Apple’s new Music app with beta release of iOS 8.4

Apple Watch gains a slew of new health care apps

3 of the most popular tech projects on Kickstarter right now

Report: Apple Watch hits nearly 1M pre-orders in U.S. on first day, Sport most popular

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