Todd R. Weiss

Apple unveiled three new redesigned and rethought MacBook Pro models on Oct. 27, bringing key improvements and enhancements to its popular laptops, from thinner and lighter profiles to a new Touch Bar that replaces the top row of clickable function keys with a touch-screen keyboard strip that enables deep customization options. The latest MacBooks arrive […]

BlackBerry has rolled out its latest Android smartphone, the $499 DTEK60 high-security handset, which is the first phone the company is offering since it declared in September that it would no longer build and distribute its own phone hardware. The DTEK 60, which is being licensed with the BlackBerry name and is being manufactured by […]

Samsung’s third-quarter earnings were hit hard by the recent recall and dropping of its once-flagship Note7 smartphone, as the company’s operating profit fell 30 percent to $4.6 billion (5.2 trillion Korean won, KRW) from $6.4 billion (7.39 trillion KRW) a year ago. The company’s mobile division operating profit was particularly devastated by the Note7 debacle, […]

As it set the wheels in motion for its $85.4 billion planned acquisition of media and entertainment company Time Warner, AT&T also released its third-quarter financial results, posting revenue of $40.9 billion, up from $39.1 billion a year earlier, and net income attributable to AT&T of $3.3 billion, up from $3 billion in 2015. The […]

Sprint’s net operating revenue rose in the second quarter of 2016 to $8.25 billion, up 3 percent from $8 billion one year ago, as the company saw year-over-year net operating revenue growth for the first time in two years. The company is still losing money, however, though its net loss for the second quarter narrowed […]

Kodak’s New Ektra: A Smartphone With a Focus on Cameras Kodak’s Ektra “photography-first” smartphone features a 10-core processor, 3GB of memory, 32GB of on-board storage and a 3,000mAh rechargeable battery. The Kodak Ektra Smartphone The Kodak Ektra sports a retro camera-like design that’s built around a 21-megapixel fast-focus main rear camera that the company hopes […]

Apple’s fourth-quarter revenue and net income fell compared to the same period one year ago, but are up from the third quarter of this year as the company continues to navigate more competitive and unpredictable global market conditions than it has seen in some time. For the full year of 2016, Apple reported revenue of […]

As Samsung continues to work to recover from the battery fires and recall debacles surrounding its now-disgraced Galaxy Note7 flagship smartphones, the company is offering buyers in South Korea a 50 percent discount on a replacement Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge handset, which can then be traded in for free when the upcoming Galaxy S8 […]

Even now, Samsung still does not know the exact cause of the more than 100 battery fires and explosions reported in its Note7 smartphones before they were recalled twice since September. The conclusion, in an Oct. 23 article by The Wall Street Journal, states that a laboratory report about “scans of some faulty devices showed […]

T-Mobile brought in net income of $366 million on $9.2 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2016, as well as 851,000 net postpaid phone customer additions, all up substantially from the same period one year ago. The $366 million in net income is up 165 percent from $138 million one year ago, due […]

Now that AT&T has confirmed its plans to acquire media and entertainment company Time Warner for $85.4 billion, the focus has shifted to whether the deal will ultimately receive the approval of U.S. regulators and how it will affect the overall telecom and communications segments. AT&T announced the pending acquisition on Oct. 22 as a […]

Kodak has unveiled its first-ever smartphone, the Kodak Ektra, which sports a retro camera-like design and a 21-megapixel fast-focus main rear camera that the company hopes will up the ante with photo enthusiasts on the go. The new 4G LTE-enabled phone, which will be available in Europe later this year for about $550, won’t initially […]