Todd R. Weiss

Russian smartphone vendor Yota has launched its latest YotaPhone 2 handset, which includes a smartphone display on one side and an e-reader screen on the other, allowing users to carry two devices in one. The new phone, an updated version of the original Yota double-display phone that launched last December, is now available in Russia […]

BlackBerry is still cruising along, but if a bid to buy it were offered, CEO John Chen said that it should not come from China because legal issues in Western nations could scuttle such a sale. Chen made his comments about potential BlackBerry sales scenarios in an interview on Bloomberg TV, according to a Dec. […]

Verizon Wireless is potentially beginning to make changes that will switch it from being a 3G and a 4G LTE network into one that will solely handle faster and more reliable 4G LTE services. The first switching changes from 3G to 4G service have occurred in Manhattan in New York City, according to a Dec. […]

The 3-year-old, back-and-forth patent war between Samsung Electronics and Apple is back in court, this time with Samsung appealing a $930 million patent infringement award that it was ordered to pay to Apple back in August 2012. Samsung’s appeal of the award was filed Dec. 4 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]

Kyocera DuraForce Rugged Phone Is Tough Enough for Extreme Workplaces by Todd R. Weiss Impact-Resistant Touch Screen The DuraForce features a 4.5-inch, 720p HD, impact-resistant touch screen, a 1.4GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 2GB of RAM. It runs on Android KitKat 4.4.2. Water Resistant Up to 6 Feet The DuraForce smartphone meets IP68 […]

Sprint has experienced network problems and customer losses due to service dissatisfaction in the recent past, but things are getting back on track now due to the huge progress made in getting the company’s wireless network updated. That was the message from Sprint Chief Financial Officer Joe Euteneuer, who shared an update on the company’s […]

Slim Design, Paperwhite Display Make Voyage Amazon’s Best E-Reader Yet by Todd R. Weiss The Best Kindle So Far The Kindle Voyage is Amazon’s most advanced e-reader so far, with an all-new design and a light weight of only 6.3 ounces for the WiFi version and 6.6 ounces for the WiFi and 3G version. Sleek, […]

PHILADELPHIA—Mobile users are everywhere, and if your business doesn’t do something to entice and engage them, it certainly means that many opportunities—and sales—are lost. Just ask Jackie Keown, the senior field marketing manager for Dunkin’ Brands in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C, who works every day with her team to find new and successful ways […]

A $1.3 billion contract that would have provided an Apple iPad to each of the 640,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District has been cancelled after questions and concerns surfaced about the bidding process that led to the June 2013 contract. In addition to the contract’s cancellation, a federal grand jury has subpoenaed […]

Flip phones may be passé in today’s world of smartphones that can scour the Internet, send texts to far-off friends or display HD video on demand right in your hand, but for some users, they still are the phones of choice. That’s the intriguing conclusion of a Dec. 2 CBS News story that describes how […]

Future iPhones from Apple could include a cool technology that will protect the most delicate parts of the phone if it is dropped by automatically rotating the device in midair to help it fall in a less vulnerable way. The idea for the rotation technology was granted in a patent application approved by the U.S. […]

The next version of Google Glass could be more streamlined and more evolved than the original generation of devices, according to new Google patent details and drawings that were awarded this week. Future Glass devices, which are still in development and have not yet been announced for retail sales, could include slimmer components over the […]