Todd R. Weiss

Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of design and an integral part of the company’s design team since 1996, has been promoted to the new post of chief design officer, where he will have freer rein to spend his time on product design and forms, rather than also dealing with managerial duties. Ive’s promotion […]

Apple is looking to include split-screen and multi-user log-in capabilities in its long-rumored 12.9-inch iPad, while the company is also exploring the idea of stylus support for the devices, according to reports coming in as the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to begin on June 8. The stylus support and split-screen possibilities […]

Apple increased log-in security for its Apple Store iOS app by now offering two-step verification for log-ins when users enable it on their iPads, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Apple posted the updated Apple Store iOS app, version 3.3, online on May 21 as a free 22.3MB download and is compatible with iOS 7 and […]

Chromebook sales around the world are on track to hit 7.3 million devices in 2015, which would be a 27 percent jump from global Chromebook sales in 2014, when some 5.7 million were sold, according to the latest report by research firm Gartner. The education market is still the primary buyer and user of Chromebooks, […]

Sprint is now accepting preorders for LG’s G4 flagship smartphone, with a special offer of several free limited-time bonuses, including a 32GB memory card, an extra battery and a battery-charging cradle. Sprint announced the freebies and the LG4 availability date on May 22, along with details about how customers can buy the phones through lease, […]

With Scratch’s $99 Coolpad Arise Phone, There’s No Hefty Service Bill By Todd R. Weiss Buy a $99 Phone, Never Get a Bill for Service The Coolpad Arise smartphone from Scratch Wireless features a 4-inch touch-screen FWVGA display with 480-by-800 resolution, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 512MB of memory and 4GB of data storage, which can […]

Russian smartphone company Yota has so far raised more than $164,830 by accepting preorders for its upcoming innovative, dual-screen YotaPhone 2 smartphone, which will be available to U.S. buyers later this summer. The money is being raised through the crowdfunding Website Indiegogo, which so far has more than tripled the $50,000 goal that was set […]

It’s all the rage nowadays for mobile phone companies like T-Mobile and Sprint to allow customers to use their smartphones via WiFi connections to make and receive calls or search the Internet without having to use their monthly data allotments. Now Scratch Wireless is taking the idea a step further with its new $99 Coolpad […]

LG Lancet Windows Smartphone Offers Advanced Calling Features by Todd R. Weiss 4.5-Inch Display, Quad-Core Processor With its 4.5-inch LCD display and a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the Lancet delivers good performance at a bargain price. The handset includes 8GB of internal storage, though 4GB are already filled with applications. It is expandable to […]

The global tablet computer market has shrunk for the second quarter in a row, with Apple and Samsung selling 23 percent and 30 percent fewer tablets respectively, according to a new report from ABI Research. Apple’s iPad shipments in the first quarter of 2015 hit 12.62 million iPads, which is a drop of 23 percent […]

Time Warner Cable apparently has another acquisition suitor, less than a month after its planned merger with Comcast Cable was dropped in April. This time it is Luxembourg-based cable and telecom company Altice, which wants to pursue Time Warner Cable (TWC), according to a May 19 report from The Wall Street Journal. The news article […]

Apple has announced a lower-priced $1,999 configuration of its 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, as well as a 15-inch MacBook Pro that now gets Apple’s recently introduced Force Touch trackpad. The new 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display arrives with a $500 price drop from its previous $2,499 configuration, according to Apple, by incorporating […]