Todd R. Weiss

AT&T and Time Warner are in the thick of talks about a possible merger. Meanwhile, Apple, which had expressed similar interest in Time Warner several months ago, is apparently monitoring the situation. The game of possible acquisition musical chairs was reported on Oct. 21 by The Wall Street Journal, which attributed the advanced merger talks […]

Verizon’s net postpaid wireless customer adds in the third quarter of 2016 fell 65.7 percent to 442,000 from a year prior when it added 1.2 million net postpaid customers. Third-quarter revenue fell to $30.9 billion from the $33.2 billion posted a year ago, while net income declined to $3.7 billion from $4.2 billion in 2015, […]

LeEco Le Pro3 and Le S3 Smartphones to Go on Sale in U.S. Chinese smartphone maker LeEco will begin selling its Le Pro3 and its midmarket Le S3 models in the United States. Here’s a look at the handsets’ key features. The $399 LeEco Le Pro3 Smartphone The flagship Le Pro3 handset features a 5.5-inch […]

Moov Rolls Out New Personal Coaching Fitness Wearables The Moov HR Sweat sweatband and the Moov HR Swim swimming cap, which have heart rate sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities, provide personal coaching to users. The Moov HR Sweat Sweatband This is no ordinary sweatband. The Moov HR Sweat is a waterproof sweatband that features a […]

MINNEAPOLIS—With some 20,000 Apple laptops being used around the world by employees of business processing outsourcing company Concentrix, the built-in Apple device management tools, such as Profile Manager, often can’t keep up with the deeper needs of growing enterprises. To solve those limitations, businesses often must find and deploy targeted administrative tools from third-party vendors, […]

MINNEAPOLIS—When patients are admitted to hospitals today, they typically have a white board mounted in their rooms where caregivers list their names, medicines and medical notes to help guide the care of the patient. But at the newly built Jacobs Medical Center in San Diego, white boards have given way to Apple iPads and Apple […]

MINNEAPOLIS—Apple device management vendor Jamf plans to release an updated version of its fully featured management application in the first half of 2017, and is renaming it Jamf Pro Version 10. The upcoming enterprise application, formerly known as Casper Suite, allows Apple device administrators to watch over their iPhone, iPad, MacBook and other Apple device […]

With the banning of Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones on all flights in the United States by the Federal Aviation Administration, travelers who own the discontinued handsets now have to make arrangements to replace their phones before their trips or leave the recalled, fire-prone devices behind when they have to travel. The FAA ban on the […]

I never realized how much I relied on tethering—using a mobile device as a mobile hotspot—until I signed up a few years ago for a new Verizon Wireless data plan for my smartphone that didn’t include tethering. “Sure,” I told the Verizon rep when he offered to give me extra gigs of data at the […]

LG V20 Smartphones to Arrive Oct. 28 at AT&T, T-Mobile The LG V20, a 4G LTE smartphone with a 5.7-inch display, a 2.05-inch always-on secondary display and a quad-core processor, has dual rear-facing cameras and a single front-facing camera. The LG V20 Flagship Smartphone The V20, priced at $829.99 from AT&T, is a 4G LTE […]

Apple has unveiled plans for a new research and development center in Shenzhen, China, the second such announcement since the company said it will build an R&D facility in Beijing back in August. The planned R&D center is aimed at helping the company expand its reach and sales in the huge Chinese economy and to […]

Releasing new information about the financial fallout of the ill-fated Note7 smartphone, Samsung announced that it expects to see a “negative impact” on its operating profits of approximately $3.1 billion (about 3.5 trillion Korean Won, or KRW), combined, for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017. Those losses are on top […]