Todd R. Weiss

Apple Watch will arrive for consumer purchases in April, which is a bit later than previous rumors that had hinted at a March release. The April launch target was announced by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Jan. 27 as part of the company’s record-breaking first-quarter 2015 earnings call, which touted $74.6 billion in revenue and […]

Apple just had its best-ever financial quarter, posting $74.6 billion in revenue and $18 billion in net profits for the first fiscal quarter of 2015 due to a consumer frenzy of sales of its latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones, Mac computers and sales of apps and more in the company’s App Store. […]

Monthly mobile data rollovers for Verizon Wireless customers isn’t going to happen, according to the company, even though rivals T-Mobile and AT&T have recently unveiled such benefits for their customers. In a Jan. 27 email reply to eWEEK, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman confirmed that the company has no plans to make such a move that […]

A new WiFi-only phone service has been unveiled by cable company Cablevision that will allow customers to use existing WiFi networks to receive unlimited talk, text and data for $29.95 a month, bypassing traditional 3G and 4G LTE wireless networks. The new “Freewheel” WiFi phone service will begin nationwide in February and will allow users […]

Today we whip out our smartphones and make long-distance calls like it is not even a big deal. We don’t even have to remember phone numbers anymore because our phones remember them for us. It certainly wasn’t as easy, convenient or inexpensive back on Jan. 25, 1915, when the first transcontinental phone call was made […]

About 75 percent of future Apple iPhones and iPads will use chips from rival Samsung, though at least one other supplier will also provide chips for the devices, according to a Jan. 26 report from Reuters. The report cited a story from South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper, which said that unidentified sources in the semiconductor […]

Apple’s latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones helped the company capture about 50 percent of the fourth-quarter 2014 smartphone sales in the United States, which helped the company handily beat its closest competitor, Samsung, by a two-to-one margin. The U.S. fourth-quarter sales figures were unveiled Jan. 23 in the Chicago-based Consumer Intelligence Research […]

AT&T is buying Nextel Mexico’s assets for $1.88 billion in a deal that will bring AT&T another 3 million customers. The Nextel Mexico acquisition, which was announced by AT&T on Jan. 26, comes through a deal with NII Holding, which owns Nextel Mexico, according to AT&T. Nextel Mexico had filed for bankruptcy in September 2014, […]

Acer’s Chromebooks Are Durable Enough for Even Students by Todd R. Weiss New Acer C740 Chromebook Offers Good Features, Low Price With a 11.6-inch display, a 16GB SSD, and either 2GB or 4GB of RAM, the new Acer C740 Chromebook will soon be available starting at $259.99. Plenty of Power to Muscle Through Schoolwork Both […]

Verizon gained 2 million new wireless customers in the fourth quarter of 2014 ended Dec. 31, 2014, but the company lost $2.2 billion in the quarter, largely due to the cost of non-operational expenses including benefits and pension payments. In its quarterly earnings report on Jan. 22, Verizon said it brought in revenue of $33.2 […]

Janam Technologies has announced its first rugged mobile handheld computer that will allow enterprises to use Windows to start but then switch the device over to Android as infrastructure needs change. The new XM5 Rugged Mobile Computer was unveiled by the company on Jan. 21 as an addition to its family of rugged computers for […]

As BlackBerry continues to battle back in the super-competitive mobile marketplace after losing its enterprise sales edge to iPhones and Android smartphones since 2007, CEO John Chen is leaving no idea off the table. Now he’s taking app developers to task for not releasing their apps for BlackBerry users, which he says puts his company […]