A promise of monthly app updates could make Microsoft's Band a whole lot better over time, starting with this month's new fitness features and a developer preview SDK for apps. I started with CNET ...

Back in 2014, when Microsoft launched its first-generation Band, it also released an app called Microsoft Health. While that app acted as a companion for the Band, it was much more than that, acting ...

Microsoft is letting developers create apps for its Band fitness tracker that convey information pulled from RSS feeds and display it on the device’s screen. The apps, which Microsoft calls Web tiles, ...

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