Todd R. Weiss

New York City officials have ordered the removal of a controversial system of advertising beacons that were in the process of being installed in Manhattan phone booths after critics began lashing out at the system due to privacy concerns. The system was being installed by an outdoor media company, Titan, which already sells advertising space […]

Samsung has launched a Samsung 360 Services for Business services suite to help enterprises support, manage and bring their mobile and other core technologies together in an easier to manage system. The new service aims to help enterprise customers improve delivery of mobility support, enterprise mobility management (EMM), device deployment, security, applications and device care […]

GT Advanced Technologies, which makes super-strong sapphire device displays, announced Oct. 6 that it will continue to operate as usual while it reorganizes under Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The company’s sapphire displays were rumored for months to have been included in the new iPhone 6 models that Apple launched in September, but the super-strong display […]

Samsung’s Q3 2014 revenue total is expected to be about 20 percent less than in the same period one year ago, putting a big damper on the company as it issued an earnings guidance report on Oct. 7 in preparation for the announcement later this month of its Q3 financial results. Revenue for Q3 is […]

Marriott International has been ordered to pay a $600,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the hotel chain admitted that some of its employees in a Nashville hotel illegally blocked private WiFi signals and customer hotspots so that guests and conference attendees would have to pay to use the hotel’s WiFi services. The […]

Sprint is laying off an undisclosed number of employees by Oct. 31 as part of a plan to save $160 million in costs so the company can “become more competitive in the marketplace.” The firings were outlined in a Form 8-K report filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that was released on Oct. […]

Verizon and Redbox have given up on their two-and-a-half-year-old joint venture, Redbox Instant, which provided instant video streaming for customers. Instead of finding success, the project never seemed to gain traction against Netflix and other established video-streaming competitors and is being shut down on Oct. 7. The shutdown of Redbox Instant was announced by Redbox […]

Honda’s upcoming Connect in-car infotainment embedded Android system has many of the latest communications and navigational tools that Americans might want, but for now, it’s aimed only at Europe where it will appear in 2015 in specific Honda vehicles. That’s the latest word from Honda and its technology partner, Nvidia, which are showing off the […]

Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone was launched almost a year ago on Oct. 31, 2013, and still no successor has been announced. That, of course, means that the rumors about its heir apparent, the so-called Nexus 6, are churning up lots of theories and possibilities in recent days. Smartphones often have a refresh cycle that’s measured […]

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opens its Nov. 13 AWS-3 wireless spectrum auction up to bidders, some 80 applicants will compete to beat out their competitors for a larger chunk of the finite wireless spectrum that is used to support wireless calls, data transmissions and other communications. The auction, called Auction 97, will remain […]

An iconic red London telephone booth has been converted into a solar-powered charging station for mobile phones, tablets and other devices that residents and visitors can use for free. The project was begun to find a new use for the distinctive and famous phone booths, which have been falling out of favor as cell phones […]

Verizon has given up on its plans to throttle back data speeds on its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for customers who are its biggest data-consuming users, reversing an earlier decision that the company had unveiled. The move had been planned to start this month The company’s change of heart about data-speed throttling was […]