Todd R. Weiss

The NTSB has ruled that a May 2014 small plane crash that killed a pilot and his passenger in Colorado was likely caused by the disorientation of the pilot who was using a cell phone camera to take “selfies” in the plane’s cabin at night. In a recent report, the National Transportation Safety Board, which […]

Samsung just lost the No. 1 smartphone sales title in India for the first time, but that shift is just the start of what is expected to be a continuing sales tussle in the region for some time. That’s the view of Chris Jones, an analyst with research firm Canalys, which released a report on […]

In two separate deals, Sprint and Amazon are “in talks” with the financially beleaguered Radio Shack store chain to lease some of its 4,000 U.S. stores as part of the company’s bankruptcy and use them in the future for their own retail outlets. Both deals were revealed in individual Feb. 2 reports by Bloomberg, which […]

Samsung certainly needs a big home run in the smartphone marketplace, and it may be hoping to find that big hit when it unveils its next Galaxy smartphone at a special March 1 event a day before the opening of the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. The company has unveiled a special media […]

Apple is now going to invest $2 billion into the failed sapphire glass manufacturing plant it was building for former partner GT Advanced Technologies in Arizona so it can salvage the facility as a new data center. The data center conversion for the once-touted sapphire glass plant was revealed in a Feb. 2 report by […]

New rules to make it easier for 911 emergency responders to get to mobile callers who are dialing from inside buildings have been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, setting a time frame for making the new standards a reality. For years, it has been difficult for emergency responders to accurately locate mobile callers from […]

After hearing criticism for months about its use of special data headers to target ads to mobile customers, Verizon Wireless has now agreed to allow users who object to the data tags to opt out of the program so they will no longer receive them. The opt-out option was revealed in a recent interview with […]

PHILADELPHIA—For the last few years, smartphones have become more integrated with our vehicles through Bluetooth connections, hands-off control capabilities and more. Well, get ready, because a whole new assortment of even better car-phone integrations is coming in the new 2015 vehicles from a host of manufacturers. New in-vehicle wireless charging pads for smartphones, improved navigation, […]

Janam Rugged Handheld Computer Lets Users Run Windows or Android by Todd R. Weiss Choices of Keyboards and Operating Systems Janam’s XM5 is the company’s first rugged mobile handheld computer that allows enterprises to use Windows to start but then switch the device over to Android if infrastructure needs change. Users can also choose between […]

LG Electronics posted a $474.81 million net profit for the full year of 2014, even after taking a $189.4 million loss in the fourth quarter due to the closure of the company’s plasma television production facilities. In its Jan. 29 earnings report, the South Korean-based mobile device, electronics and consumer goods maker also announced full-year […]

Samsung showed a bit of improvement in its financial bottom line for the fourth quarter of 2014 compared with the prior quarter, but its full year 2014 financial numbers show that it still has a ways to go to stop the slide of its market share and earnings. For the fourth quarter of 2014 ended […]

Following a recent pattern of mixed financial results in the telecommunications marketplace, AT&T posted a net loss of $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 though its revenue of $34.4 billion rose 3.8 percent from the same period the previous year. In a Jan. 27 announcement, AT&T also reported that it gained 854,000 new […]