Todd R. Weiss

A 911 service outage which affected an unannounced number of AT&T wireless customers across the United States for several hours on March 8 is being investigated by the FCC. AT&T has confirmed the 911 problems for some wireless customers in an email reply to an inquiry from eWEEK, but did not release full details of […]

Apple’s upcoming new iPhones reportedly will include a special 10th anniversary edition phone equipped with a curved OLED display screen and a $1,000 price tag, in addition to other traditional iPhone models with liquid-crystal displays, according to the latest rumors about the handsets. Details about the special anniversary iPhone model were described in a Feb. 28 story in The […]

HP unveiled its latest two-in-one convertible enterprise tablet and notebook computer, the HP Pro x2 612 G2, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, bringing a new design and updated features to the company’s 2-year-old previous model, the HP Pro x2 612 G1.  Starting at $979 and available immediately in the United States, the HP […]

Verizon will start its first commercial 5G trials with up to 500 residential and business customers in 11 metro areas across the United States by mid-2017 after limiting earlier trials to laboratory testing. The newest 5G trials, which will be launched in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Atlanta, Ga.; Bernardsville, N.J.; Brockton, Mass.; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo.; […]

Samsung’s reputation with the public took a hit in the latest Harris poll about corporate reputations in the United States, with Samsung falling to 49th place out of 100 companies after the smartphone maker’s embarrassing recall late last year of its then-flagship Note7 smartphone line and problems with some of its consumer washing machines. That […]

LG’s upcoming G6 smartphone will feature a new FullVision display design that will let users watch videos while also perusing content with a web browser at the same time using different sections of its 5.7-inch quad-HD screen. The new FullVision display will have a 2,880 x 1,440 screen resolution, an 18:9 aspect ratio and an edge-to-edge display […]

Verizon is bolstering its growing involvement in the drone and internet of things industries by acquiring drone operations management company Skyward. Skyward, based in Portland, Ore., offers commercial drone software that merges operations tracking and reporting, flight planning, flight logging, compliance tracking and other tasks to help improve workflows for small to large business users, according to […]

Panasonic Updates Toughpad FZ-G1 With More Power, Longer Battery Life The 10.1-inch Toughpad FZ-G1 gets a more powerful Intel Core i5 processor, Windows 10, longer battery life and a waterproof digitizer pen. The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 Rugged Tablet The latest FZ-G1 includes a 10.1-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200 resolution) LED touch screen display that includes […]

Just two weeks after launching its new $800 GoPro Karma Drone, the company has initiated a product recall for all 2,500 Karma Drones that have been sold so far. The problem with the drones is that “in a small number of cases” the Karma drones “lost power during operation,” GoPro said in a Nov. 8 […]

After an extended absence, Apple is again offering refurbished iPhone models (pictured) at discounted prices through the online Apple Store to buyers who want a refurbished device that comes with a standard one-year Apple warranty. The refurbished iPhones began showing up recently on the Apple website, with discounts ranging from about $80 to $110, or […]

A month after Samsung dropped the production of its Note7 flagship smartphones on Oct. 11, the company has run full-page ads in three major American newspapers, again apologizing for the problems the fire-prone devices caused for buyers, businesses and others. The advertisements, which appeared in the print editions of The Washington Post, The New York […]

LG has started rolling out the latest Android operating system—version 7.0 Nougat—to users of its 7-month-old LG G5 smartphones as the company works to bring new features and capabilities to the handsets. LG is rolling out the Nougat operating system upgrades first to G5 owners in the company’s native South Korea before rolling them out […]