Todd R. Weiss

T-Mobile has unveiled cheaper prepaid mobile phone plans for customers who want service without paying extra for features including free international texting and free music streaming. Starting at $40 per month, the new Simply Prepaid plans, with monthly 4G LTE data allotments of 1GB, 3 GB or 5GB, were unveiled by the carrier in a […]

Mercedes-Benz, Audi Showcase New Self-Driving Concept Cars by Todd R. Weiss Mercedes-Benz F 015 Self-Driving Concept Car Making its world premiere at CES, the Mercedes F 015 Luxury in Motion research vehicle includes a sleek, space-age shape and an intriguing system of internal features that could someday take the driving out of taking a trip. […]

Samsung is rumored to have made a $7.5 billion acquisition offer for BlackBerry in a move aimed at obtaining key patents and diving deeper into enterprise markets for its products around the world. The potential BlackBerry buyout by Samsung, reported Jan. 14 by Reuters, is based on information from sources who spoke privately about the […]

The next Apple iPhone that will be released later in 2015 could have an improved built-in camera that will allow users to take advantage of true optical zoom, rather than digitally-enhanced zoom capabilities that aren’t as crisp as zooms performed using optical lenses made from glass. The potential replacement of digital zoom with optical zoom […]

Apple has sued Ericsson AB over mobile patents related to Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies and then was hit by a countersuit from Ericsson in response, sending the two rivals into a new patent war. The dispute involves a disagreement over pricing for patent licensing for the LTE technology, according to a Jan. 14 report […]

NEW YORK—An upcoming Verizon report on mobile and retail security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance shows that many companies fall out of compliance once they finish their projects, leaving security holes that then lead to future data breaches and data loss that could have been prevented. “Most customers still see […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new app that consumers can use on their mobile devices to quickly report digital rights issues when they spot them, but in a strange twist, the new app is not available yet in an iOS version. The Android-only app was released without a partner app for iOS […]

Sprint says it has gained about 967,000 new customers in the third fiscal quarter of 2014, giving the carrier some very welcome news after several years of sustained customer losses. The company reported the customer gains in a Jan. 8 announcement that touted its preliminary Q3 customer numbers, which will be finalized when the company […]

AT&T has announced that the newest BlackBerry smartphone models, the Passport and the Classic, will soon be available to AT&T customers, with the Passport phone having specially rounded edges and corners exclusively for AT&T buyers. The standard version of BlackBerry’s Passport has distinctive squared-off edges and corners as part of its design. The new exclusive […]

Apple’s App Store set an all-time one-day sales record on New Year’s Day 2015, and the store billed customers for $500 million worth of apps and in-app purchases in the first week of January alone, according to new figures the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology company unveiled on Jan. 8. Both sales milestones come on the heels […]

New net neutrality rules that could view Internet service providers as utilities under federal laws will be voted upon by the Federal Communications Commission on Feb. 26, according to public comments made by the FCC’s chairman on Jan. 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In his appearance at CES, Wheeler “appeared […]

The latest MacBook Air rumors—and aren’t there always MacBook Air rumors?—call for the next generation devices to include 12-inch displays while sporting thinner and smaller overall device sizes. The overall size of the next MacBook Air will even be smaller than the existing 11-inch MacBook Air models, according to a Jan. 6 report by VentureBeat. […]