Todd R. Weiss

Apple is rumored to be planning three new iPhone models for release in the second half of 2015, including an iPhone 6S, an iPhone 6S Plus and a smaller iPhone 6C, according to a published report. The latest three iPhones were mentioned by unnamed industry sources, according to a March 26 story by Digitimes. The […]

I’ve never used a digital stylus before with a computer, so I was intrigued when NeoLAB Convergence offered to let me try out its brand-new Neo smartpen N2 device that allows users to write on a special pad of paper and capture their words or drawings onto the screen of a smartphone. I installed the […]

HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, the HTC One M9, will be available for preorders and early shipments starting March 27 through AT&T and T-Mobile before going on sale officially across the United States on April 10. In a March 26 announcement, AT&T said it will begin shipping the phones on March 27 soon after customers place […]

Samsung’s all-new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones, which are the company’s flagship mobile handsets, will be available for preorder starting March 27 through AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Verizon Wireless has not yet announced its Galaxy S6 preorder plans. While AT&T and T-Mobile are offering monthly payment plans to help spread out the costs […]

Amazon might have been expected to be happy about the Federal Aviation Administration’s recent decision that allows the online retailer to conduct outdoor experiments with its proposed drone-based package delivery services. But instead, an Amazon spokesman told a U.S. Senate subcommittee this week that the FAA permission is essentially too little, too late and that […]

Apple has acquired the startup behind the Foundation DB database in a move that could be aimed at helping Apple continue to improve and support its own services to its own customers. The acquisition was reported in a March 24 story by The Wall Street Journal, which said that the purchase could be used by […]

Cyanogen, an Android open-source startup, just raised another $80 million in venture capital money as it works to expand its presence in the mobile handset marketplace and on more mobile phones around the world. The two-year-old company created Cyanogen OS, which is based on Android, and is the commercial sponsor of the CyanogenMod open-source project, […]

If you’ve ever had to describe a strange car noise or a broken appliance part to a technician on the other end of a telephone, you likely know what frustration that process can entail. So what if you could open an app on your smartphone and then show them exactly what you are talking about […]

OK, I’ll admit it—back in 1988 I actually asked my then-60-something-year-old father-in-law, “Pop, why in the world do you need a computer?” My late father-in-law, Eugene Bloomfield, was truly way ahead of his time. A lifelong pharmacist and a World War II veteran, he was passionately active with social action and anti-war groups like Veterans […]

A telecom group and a Texas broadband provider are the first two organizations to file legal actions against the FCC to fight the latest net neutrality regulations that the agency adopted in February. US Telecom, a Washington-based telecommunications trade group, and Alamo Broadband, an Elmendorf, Texas-based broadband provider, filed individual legal actions on March 23 […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced the creation of a new investigative unit that aims to better protect consumers from new kinds of consumer fraud that bubble up constantly in connection with new technologies and services. The new Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTRI), which has been created in the FTC’s Bureau of […]

When researchers at Purdue University began setting up their new laboratory, they started to receive shipment after shipment of supplies that were packed in boxes filled with lots of soft, cushiony packing peanuts to protect the equipment during shipping. With all of those packing peanuts on hand after unboxing their gear, the idea was raised […]