Todd R. Weiss

Will Huawei Make Waves in U.S. Market With SnapTo Smartphones? by Todd R. Weiss Quad-Core Processor and More The new Huawei SnapTo smartphone features a 5-inch HD (1,280-by-720) TFT touch-screen display, a Qualcomm MSM8926 Snapdragon 400 chipset, a quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 processor, 1GB of RAM and an Adreno 305 graphics chip. Works on Virtually […]

Android Wear users will soon be able to incorporate new WiFi and wrist gesture capabilities when using their Android smartwatches thanks to several additional features that Google is rolling out in the Android Wear platform over the next several weeks. The updates arrive for users as Google continues to expand Android Wear’s features to give […]

Norway has announced that by the end of 2017, its FM radio stations will no longer broadcast over analog networks but will instead move to all-digital systems that will improve sound quality and give radio stations more capabilities for additional and better content. As soon as I read this, I immediately thought about the brand-new […]

Comcast is bringing high-speed, 2-gigabit fiber-based Internet services to the San Francisco Bay Area starting in June, as the cable provider raises the stakes in the broadband speed wars against competitors such as Google Fiber, AT&T and others. This is the second launch this month for Comcast’s newly announced Gigabit Pro 2-gigabit Internet services. Earlier […]

NEW YORK—In recent years, printing giant Hewlett-Packard rebadged 3D printers from a competitor with the HP nameplate and sold them in Europe to serve industrial customers. Now, though, as 3D printing gains wider use by businesses and continues to expand the possibilities of users, HP is moving ahead with the development and production of its […]

NEW YORK—Small and medium-sized businesses might have been low-tech operations in the distant past, but many of them today are apparently craving the same high-tech services that larger businesses also need to continue to thrive and grow to serve their customers. Here’s a key example: More and more SMBs are taking advantage of 3D printing […]

Samsung Electronics has been assembling a group of about 200 people whose sole responsibility will be to create and build displays for Apple devices, including iPads and MacBooks. The creation of the new Apple display team at Samsung Display Co. comes as the two companies work to strengthen their business ties and will only share […]

The legal fight against the FCC over recent net neutrality changes made by the agency continues as four more lawsuits have been filed by additional plaintiffs who oppose the agency’s decision to begin to regulate the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the U.S. Communications Act. The latest legal actions were filed […]

Apple is paying about $20 million to acquire LinX Computational Imaging, an Israel-based company that focuses on designing and selling tiny cameras for use in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The deal was reported in an April 14 story by The Wall Street Journal, based on unnamed sources who had knowledge of the […]

An innovative, thin heat pipe that’s less than 1 mm thick is being developed by Fujitsu to improve internal cooling in tomorrow’s smartphones, tablets, laptops and other compact electronic devices. The low profile heat pipe, which fits inside a device and wicks heat away from heat-generating components that are inside is being developed by Fujitsu […]

Apple has unveiled its newest iOS 8.4 developer’s beta version on its developer Website, as it distributes what will eventually become a future version of the always evolving iOS operating system. The iOS 8.4 beta version was announced by Apple on April 13 and comes just a few weeks after the release of the iOS […]

Apple has opened a registration lottery for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) so that developers who want to attend can seek the chance to buy tickets to the event, which will be held from June 8 to 12 in San Francisco. Attendee hopefuls must register for the ticket lottery on the company’s Website before […]