Todd R. Weiss

Apple is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from electric car battery vendor A123 Systems that alleges that Apple has been methodically and illegally hiring away engineers from A123 in ways that have been damaging to the battery company. Apple filed the motion to dismiss the lawsuit on March 10 in U.S. District […]

Apple’s recently unveiled Force Touch technology, which earlier this week was announced in the company’s new Apple Watch and the upcoming MacBook, will also be included in the next version of Apple’s hugely popular iPhones later this year. The inclusion of Force Touch, which automatically reacts to whether a user presses lightly or with more […]

Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch debuted in September 2014 with stone gray or black stainless steel bodies, but starting immediately, Moto 360 buyers can now get a wide choice of watch colors, wristbands and watch faces using the company’s innovative Moto Maker design store. Moto Maker arrived back in August 2013 as an online destination where […]

Cricket Wireless is rolling out the latest Motorola Moto E 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone to its customers on March 13, pricing it at $129.99 and including myriad upgrades from the original first-generation Moto E that debuted in May 2014. The Moto E 4G LTE model, which marks the first smartphone offered by Cricket that […]

Sometimes getting a strong cellular signal on a smartphone can be maddening. If you’re in a metal or concrete building, the signal can be stunted or missing completely, meaning you have to go outside or walk around until you can find a place where your call will go through or not be dropped. That longstanding […]

The Apple Watch got its big long-awaited debut on March 9, with a showy unveiling by Apple that revealed many details and features that were left out of the product’s initial announcement back in September 2014. Now, consumers know more about the pricing for the three Apple Watch models, from the $349 Sport model all […]

As expected, Apple took the wraps off its upcoming Apple Watch today, showing off the smartwatches that will start at $349 for a Sport version, while also finally releasing pricing details on its luxury Watch Edition, which begin at a cool $10,000 for an Apple Watch in 18-karat gold. But there was more, of course, […]

Apple recently quietly filed a United States patent application for a special, ultra-thin hydrophobic coating that when applied to electronic components would protect them from water damage if sprayed or submerged. The appearance of the application is intriguing, particularly because that then raises questions about how Apple might use such a coating. Perhaps the company […]

Developers have been building apps for Apple iPhones, iPads and other devices for about eight years now, but they’ll have to learn a few new tricks to build apps for Apple’s upcoming Watch smartwatch, which will be sold to consumers starting in April. To help provide that extra training, online courses are becoming available to […]

Apple’s revamped Beats Music service plans are expected to be unveiled in June at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), rather than at next week’s March 9 scheduled event where the Apple Watch is rumored to get its kickoff event. The delay in scheduling for the Beats announcement is due to “the departure of key […]

In preparation for April’s Apple Watch launch, Apple has been secretly working closely with a wide range of companies to help them prepare their own custom apps for the new smartwatch when it hits the market. Large companies, including Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW vehicles), Facebook and United Continental Holdings, have been spending weeks getting up-close […]

You’re on a trip and you plug your smartphone charger into the hotel room wall socket to give your phone new life. When it reaches full charge, you unplug the cord from your phone and make some calls. Then you get dressed, repack your things and head off to your meeting. Later that night, it […]