Todd R. Weiss

Nokia N1 Android Tablet Has Clear Display, Slim Profile by Todd R. Weiss Nokia Creates Its Own Tablet With the debut of the N1, Nokia is again launching into the mobile marketplace wars. The N1 is the company’s first Android-powered tablet design. Bright, Clear Display The N1 includes a 7.9-inch 2,048 by 1,536 resolution, zero […]

Prynt wants to help us all get more from our smartphone cameras by adding an innovative attachable phone case that allows our phones to immediately print the images we just captured without having to send them away for processing. If it works as described, it could be very cool. Right now, Prynt, which the company […]

Nokia continues it rebirth with the announcement of its first-ever Android tablet computer, the N1, which will be built for Nokia under license by a third-party device manufacturer. The new N1 was unveiled by Nokia on Nov. 18 as the company’s “first Nokia-branded Android tablet” that features “a carefully crafted industrial design by Nokia with […]

AT&T is offering its Mobile Share plan customers a special, limited-time deal that will provide 15GB of monthly shareable data for the same price as its 10GB plan, starting immediately. The offer, announced by the company on Nov. 17, costs the same $100 a month that’s presently charged for 10GB of shared data. The data […]

The FCC appears to be a bit perturbed with AT&T’s recent announcement that it is suspending its investments in high-speed fiber networks in 100 U.S. cities until the U.S. government figures out its net neutrality strategy. In a two-page letter Nov. 14 to Robert W. Quinn Jr., AT&T’s federal regulatory and chief privacy officer, the […]

Samsung will release its first early version of its virtual reality headset, the affordable $199 Gear VR Innovator Edition, in the United States in early December, making good on its announcement of the intriguing product back in September. The Gear VR brings together Samsung mobile capabilities with the world of virtual reality. Preorders are being […]

For Verizon Wireless contract customers, it just got more expensive to cancel their device contracts before the end of their two-year agreements. Under changes the company made to its customer agreements on Nov. 14, a subscriber who has a contract for an “advanced device,” such as an Apple iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S5 or […]

AT&T’s “experiment” with phone-tracking tags that gave users unique identifiers, even if the users had opted out of mobile ad-tracking services, is now over, according to the company. The controversial tracking program and others like it had been criticized by privacy advocates who argued that tracking user information even if users opted out of the […]

AT&T, which announced in April that it would begin expanding its latest high-speed fiber networks to 100 U.S. cities, now says that recent government indecision over net neutrality has caused the company to suspend its fiber projects and spending until the net neutrality rules are decided. The AT&T decision was announced in a Nov. 12 […]

Sprint’s failure to complete its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile this August was a disappointment for the company, but it appears that Sprint is again starting to get the acquisition itch. A Nov. 12 report by USA Today says that Sprint is eyeing a Los Angeles startup, FreedomPop, a free Internet and mobile phone service provider, […]

BlackBerry apparently isn’t planning to go away without a fight. The Canadian enterprise communications company was founded in 1984 under its former Research In Motion (RIM) persona, and the BlackBerry name and product line was first introduced in 1999. Now called BlackBerry, the company has changed quite a bit since its boom days of the […]

Sprint customers who wanted to get an iPad in the past to use on their wireless plans had to buy their iPads up front, which could amount to $300 or more, but that’s changing under a new program announced by the carrier. Starting Nov. 14, Sprint customers will be able to add an iPad Air […]