Todd R. Weiss

Cuba’s state telecom service, Etecsa, has approved the startup of Cuba’s first public, open WiFi services, which began recently in Havana’s central cultural center building. That means that, for the first time, Cubans have a place where they can have free, open use of the Internet, even though it will sometimes be slow and spotty, […]

BlackBerry’s Secusmart division has teamed up with IBM to create a secure enterprise and government-aimed tablet computer that includes high security and data protection features for users around the world. The SecuTABLET, which is based on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablet computer, was unveiled by Secusmart and IBM at the CeBIT 2015 technology […]

T-Mobile’s monthly rollover ”data stash” offer, which allows contract customers to roll their unused data over for future use for up to a year, is now being expanded to T-Mobile’s prepaid customers. That means that prepaid T-Mobile customers who don’t use up all of their data allotment each month will be able to save it […]

Apple is planning to sell millions of its upcoming Apple Watch smartwatches to iPhone users so they can pair the devices together and get news, phone calls, health information and more on their wrists, but a new Reuters/Ipsos poll asserts that some 69 percent of Americans say that they don’t plan to buy the watches. […]

Microsoft is working to build iOS and Android app versions of its Cortana personal digital assistant software—its answer to Apple’s Siri digital assistant—that could be ready for release next fall. The company has been at work on an “advanced version” of Cortana that has been aided by research from artificial intelligence project that Microsoft internally […]

Apple’s upcoming new USB-C port on the company’s latest MacBook means that users can employ the same connection for battery charging, USB devices, VGA connectors and data transfer. What it also could mean is that Apple is about to give third-party accessory vendors improved access to the connector so that they can build and offer […]

Apple is opening its iOS 8 beta software update program to more users to allow more eyeballs to see and review the code, which the company hopes will continue to help build better code. Under its new plan, Apple will allow participating iOS users to join up as a software tester and try out beta […]

Google recently and unceremoniously ended sales of its former flagship smartphone, the Nexus 5, just four months after introducing its flashier, larger and more feature-filled replacement, the Nexus 6 last November. The Nexus 6 is nice, for sure, with everything a busy mobile user needs. Yet some of us who make a switch from one […]

New patent applications filed by Apple appear to show concepts for flexible displays that could eventually bring side-mounted display edges to future iPhones, similar to those recently unveiled in Samsung’s latest Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. The latest Apple patent applications were revealed in a March 10 report by Patently Apple, which detailed some of the […]

The Nexus 6 smartphone from Google is now available to Verizon Wireless customers, with preorders beginning March 12 and general availability of the phones starting on March 19. The arrival of the Nexus 6, which became available for preorder to customers of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile back in November 2014, brings this mid-priced, feature-filled smartphone […]

Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones are attracting so much consumer interest and so many preorders that the company is already boosting its production targets for the new devices starting in April. Instead of producing 7 million Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge devices in April, Samsung has placed orders for an […]

A Look at Lenovo’s New Smartphones, Tablets and a Portable Projector by Todd R. Weiss The Vibe Shot: A 5-inch Display Built With Quality Components Lenovo’s Vibe Shot smartphone features a 5-inch HD display, a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, 1.7GHz eight-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in on-board storage (expandable to 128GB with a […]