Todd R. Weiss

Eight months after rolling out WiFi calling for iOS smartphones, AT&T has unveiled the service for Android devices, though it only works with only one Android phone model as the service begins—the year-old LG G4 handset. The start of AT&T’s WiFi services for Android users was announced by Bill Smith, the president of AT&T Network […]

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus plans to discontinue its budget OnePlus X smartphone as the company pares down its product lines to give all of its attention to its upcoming flagship OnePlus 3 handsets. The end of the OnePlus X phone line was revealed by Pete Lau, CEO of the company, in a recent interview, according […]

Apple iPhone users who have a tough time remembering where they last parked their vehicle in a crowded parking lot could be getting some built-in help from a find-your-car feature that may be built into the upcoming release of Apple’s iOS 10 operating system in the fall. Though the apparent feature wasn’t brought up by […]

Music-streaming service Rhapsody, which bought the assets of Napster back in 2011 and uses the Napster name elsewhere around the world, is changing its name to Napster in the United States in the near future. The company announced the move on June 14 in a post on its Website, telling customers that other than the […]

Lenovo’s 5 Latest Smartphones, From Tango-Enabled Phab 2 Pro to Moto Z Lenovo’s Phab 2 series handsets will come in three versions, while two different models of the company’s modular Moto Z series are available. The Standard Lenovo Phab 2 Lenovo’s upcoming standard Phab 2 handset has a 6.4-inch In-Plane Switching HD touch-screen display, a […]

Apple has created an iPad-based Swift Playgrounds app that incorporates puzzles, games and other fun tasks all designed to encourage children and teens to learn to code using the Swift programming language. The idea is to help create an interest in software coding in young people so Apple can find the next generation of software […]

The third generation of the Apple Watch operating system, watchOS 3, will debut in the fall and include a wide range of upgrades that aim to make Apple Watch performance faster and more useful for customers. Among the key additions to watchOS 3 are all-new health and fitness functions, instant app launching capabilities, enhanced user […]

Apple has announced an all-new user interface for its year-old Apple Music streaming service and some key innovations for its Photos app, including the use of artificial intelligence to accurately search for photos by topic. The new capabilities were unveiled at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on June 13, along […]

LG’s K8 V smartphone, an Android handset with a 5-inch LCD HD touch-screen display that sells for $144 and can be used internationally, is available for preorder exclusively through Verizon. The handset, which will be available in Verizon stores and at VerizonWireless.com on June 16, is being sold at a special online-only price of $94, […]

Helping mobile users find just the right apps at the very moment they need them is the aim of Nearby, a new Google Android feature that is being rolled out to users. Nearby, which is included in the latest Google Play Services update release and will be installed when a user’s device receives the update, […]

Complaints about slower-than-advertised Internet speeds from Time Warner Cable customers in New York state continue to be a focus of the state’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, who has asked the company’s new owner to “clean up Time Warner Cable’s act.” In a June 8 letter to Tom Rutledge, CEO of Charter Communications, which bought Time […]

Verizon has been identified for weeks as the leading bidder for Yahoo’s Internet business, but other bidders, including AT&T, are apparently giving Verizon some real competition in the fight for Yahoo’s Web assets. In the second round of early bidding that was completed earlier in June, several offers came in above $5 billion, which were […]