Todd R. Weiss

If I ran Samsung, I certainly would be focusing like mad right now on earning back the trust of customers after the total recall of the company’s flagship Galaxy Note7 smartphones in October due to more than 100 reports of battery fires and explosions around the world. If I ran Samsung, I would be issuing […]

Xiaomi Launches Mi Note 2 Smartphone and Mi VR Headset Xiaomi introduced the Mi Note 2 smartphone, as well as the Mi VR headset, which can be used with select Xiaomi phones for virtual reality gaming and entertainment. The Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Smartphone The Mi Note 2 handset features 3D curved glass for its […]

Toyota is developing a smartphone app that can be used by car-sharing services to unlock and start cars that will be used by prospective renters, without their needing to get physical keys and fobs to use the vehicles. The app will work with another Toyota development, a Smart Key Box module (pictured), which will be […]

Delays in shipping some Google Pixel smartphones in late October caused the company to send out emails offering $50 credits in the Google Play store to compensate some buyers for the inconvenience. Google confirmed the $50 credits in a Nov. 1 email reply to an eWEEK inquiry, but a spokesperson would not say how many […]

Virtual reality content and entertainment publisher Starbreeze has acquired visual effects company Nozon, which creates visual effects and 3D animation for clients, in a $7.75 million deal. Through the transaction, Starbreeze, a Stockholm, Sweden-based independent creator, publisher and distributor of VR entertainment content and hardware, will add Nozon’s expertise in immersive virtual reality through its […]

When it launches in November, AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming video service will have more than 100 channels and will cost $35 a month, according to the company’s CEO. The pricing and channel availability details were announced by Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chairman and CEO, while he was speaking at a technology conference in California on Oct. […]

Apple executives sure were excited when they unveiled the company’s all-new thinner, faster and lighter MacBook Pro models on Oct. 27, but a sampling of IT analysts told eWEEK that the innovations they had hoped to see in the devices were not part of the company’s splashy presentation. The latest MacBooks arrive in three versions—a […]

Live-stream camera enthusiasts can now buy the Allie 360 camera, which offers 360-degree images, 24/7 recording, VR capabilities and more, in select Best Buy stores and through BestBuy.com. The Allie 360 camera, which was previously available directly from Allie and from Amazon, retails for $499 and provides one-click live streaming, allowing users to place the […]

Google’s popular new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones may be available exclusively through Verizon and Google, but that’s not stopping T-Mobile from offering rebates to get buyers to move their new phones over to the Un-Carrier’s network. T-Mobile is now offering any Google Pixel or Pixel XL buyer a $325 rebate—equal to half the cost […]

Cricket Wireless is now giving its prepaid, no-contract wireless customers 8GB of high-speed data on its $50 monthly smartphone cellular plan, a 60 percent increase from its former 5GB monthly data allotment. The $50 monthly plan, the company’s most popular offering, also includes unlimited talk and texting, as well as all taxes and fees. Customers […]

Boost Mobile Unveils $70 ZTE Tempo Smartphone The ZTE Tempo budget phone features a 4.5-inch touch-screen display, a quad-core processor, a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. ZTE Tempo Smartphone From Boost Mobile The ZTE Tempo handset features a 4.5-inch touch-screen thin-film-transistor (TFT) display, a Qualcomm MSM8909 1.1GHz processor, 1GB of memory and […]

Since going on sale Oct. 20, Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL Android smartphones are so popular that several versions are completely out of stock and others are apparently taking longer to get to buyers than previously estimated by Google. All 5.5-inch Pixel XL handsets in Quite Black or Very Silver are out of stock in […]