Todd R. Weiss

Apple’s global revenue continued to climb in its fiscal 2015 second quarter, reaching $58 billion, a 27 percent jump from $45.6 billion in the same period last year, while net profit in this interval rose 33 percent to $13.6 billion from $10.2 billion. Contributing to that success were the sales of 61.2 million iPhones globally, […]

Nokia has denied recent reports that the company would again be building and selling smartphones by 2016, more than a year after it sold its Lumia phone business to Microsoft. The reports, which surfaced online earlier in April, cited a former Nokia executive who said that the company was working on such products and could […]

NEW YORK—Acer has unveiled a wide range of new tablets, laptops, fitness and fashion wearable bands, as well as hard-core gaming machines available as desktop, laptop or tablet models. Also slated is a small, portable LED projector that can be used to display images up to 100 inches wide on any surface. The devices, many […]

Comcast scrapped its $45 billion proposal to merge with Time Warner Cable after being faced with potential roadblocks from federal regulators who have been leery of the merger due to concerns about unfair competition and harm to industry innovation. The ending of the merger proposal came in a terse statement on April 24 from Brian […]

NEW YORK—Acer is jumping headfirst into U.S. smartphone market by launching its new $79 Liquid M220 Windows smartphone (pictured) in June, to be followed later in the year by a business-aimed Liquid X2 phone that will feature three SIM slots for global travelers. The big mobile move by Acer, which will bring the Taiwanese electronics […]

Hewlett-Packard is wasting no time unveiling its first round of back-to-school convertible laptops/tablets and notebooks for students by announcing a wide range of models with releases scheduled for May and June, in plenty of time before the start of the new school year in August. The company on April 22 announced the latest HP Pavilion […]

3D Printing Expo Showcases Printers for Businesses Large and Small by Todd R. Weiss XYZ Printing’s Da Vinci Jr. 1.0 Makes 3D Printing Affordable A popular home and school printer, the Da Vinci Jr. 1.0, at $349, is a basic, affordable 3D printer that is easy to use for beginners and has 100- to 400-micron […]

Google’s rumored “Project Fi” cell phone services are a rumor no more. The search company today announced the new service, which will charge smartphone users $20 a month for cellular access, plus data fees of $10 per GB only for the data that is consumed each month, in an effort to try a new idea […]

Web searching on the small screen of my Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is maddening enough compared to the searches I perform on the large, clear ViewSonic 24-inch-wide display that sits on my work desktop, but when I reach a Website on my phone that isn’t built to display well on a mobile device, I want […]

The latest 802.11ac WiFi-compliant devices, from routers to access points and everything in between, are gaining market share worldwide, compared with their older, slower counterparts, the 802.11n-equipped devices that formerly powered the last generation of WiFi products. A new report from ABI Research shows that by the end of 2015, some 71 million consumer WiFi […]

Apple so badly wants iOS developers to envision, create and offer new apps for its upcoming Apple Watch that the company is making special offers to some developers via email so they can buy one of the sold-out devices quickly and receive it by April 28 to begin their development work. The special purchase offers, […]

Verizon added 565,000 new contract wireless customers in the first quarter of 2015, while its profits rose by 6.9 percent to $4.22 billion from $3.95 billion for the same quarter one year ago. Overall revenue rose 3.8 percent to $32 billion for the quarter, up from $30.8 billion one year ago. Earnings per share came […]