Todd R. Weiss

China’s ZTE to Sell Its Flagship Axon 7 Smartphone in U.S. The premium handset features a 5.5-inch WQHD touch-screen display and a 20-megapixel main camera and will sell for under $500. The ZTE Axon 7 Smartphone The Axon 7 handset features a 5.5-inch AMOLED Wide Quad HD (WQHD) touch-screen display with 2,560-by-1,440 resolution (538ppi), a […]

Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro smartphone, the first handset to feature Google Tango augmented reality capabilities for consumer use, was unveiled at Lenovo Tech World on June 9 in San Francisco, along with two other Phab phone models and two new Moto Z smartphones that feature modular accessories that can be added and removed as needed. […]

Apple is making changes to its App Store to help increase the earnings potential of the developers who create apps for Apple’s 1 billion users so they stick around to create additional innovative and profitable products for the company’s customers. The changes include ads for their apps appearing in the listings when users perform searches […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Active: A Rugged Smartphone for Tough Workplaces The new ruggedized version of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge handsets is now available exclusively through AT&T. Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Smartphone for Rough Environments The Galaxy S7 Active includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of memory, 32GB of on-board storage, a […]

Yahoo is auctioning off some 3,000 of its technology patents, even as it continues to review bids to sell off its key Web businesses, as the search company apparently works to find a new identity in the marketplace. The patent auction, expected to bring in as much as $1 billion for the company, has been […]

Sluggish global smartphone sales will continue through 2016 as the annual double-digit sales increases of the past few years disappear and make way for single-digit increases. That’s the conclusion of the latest research from Gartner, which predicts worldwide smartphone sales growth of only 7 percent, or about 1.5 billion handsets, through the end of the […]

From Smartphones to a Robot, Asus Shows Off a Variety of New Products At the Computex 2016 trade show, Asus had something for everyone, including a trio of new flagship smartphones, 2-in-1s, laptops and even a home robot. The ZenFone 3 Deluxe Smartphone The ZenFone 3 Deluxe features an aluminum alloy unibody, a 5.7-inch Full […]

Lenovo is stepping up its game in the world of virtual reality products by signing a deal to use advanced vision processing technology from Movidius in its next-generation VR gear. Under a partnership that was announced June 7, Lenovo will gain access to Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) hardware and its custom computer […]

Two smartphones models with bendable screens, including one version that will have a 5-inch screen that can be unfolded into an 8-inch screen, are in the works at Samsung and could be available to consumers by early 2017. The two handsets, which were revealed by unidentified people who are familiar with the new products, are […]

Verizon’s pursuit of Yahoo’s 1 billion Internet users continues with a $3 billion bid for Yahoo’s Web business in a second round of bidding as the search company looks to sell off some of its assets to streamline its operations. The latest Verizon bid, which was disclosed by an unnamed person who is familiar with […]

T-Mobile has launched its latest Un-carrier event, which it calls “Stock Up,” to offer a free full share of the carrier’s common stock to all existing and new customers to thank them for their business, as well as the potential to earn up to 100 free stock shares a year by recommending the company to […]

American Airlines will outfit its new Boeing 737 MAX jet fleet with satellite WiFi Internet services from ViaSat, which the companies say will provide users with in-flight WiFi experiences that are comparable to their in-home services. The deal, which was announced by the companies on June 3, will allow American Airlines passengers to use their […]