More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...

The company is instructing some users to force quit the app, restart their phone and to log back in. It's also telling customers to ensure their Fitbit app is updated to the latest version.

For the past two weeks I've been testing out two wearable fitness-tracking devices, the Nike FuelBand SE, and the Fitbit Force. Nike 's FuelBand SE is a follow up to last year's FuelBand.