Todd R. Weiss

The all-new HTC 10 flagship smartphone from HTC is now available through Verizon, featuring a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad-core 64-bit processor, vastly improved front and rear cameras, and upgraded audio capabilities for better music playback compared with the previous HTC One M9 handset. The handset will also be available through Sprint starting May 13. The […]

Apple is now offering a 50 percent college student discount for its $9.99-a-month Apple Music streaming music service to verified students around the world as the company seeks new ways to grow its subscriber lists for the almost 1-year-old music platform. The discount plan, which will lower the price of the service to $4.99 a […]

HP Refreshes Pavilion Line With New Convertibles, Notebooks, Desktops HP’s latest Pavilion mobile and desktop machines offer refinements, new screen size options and more. They are also thinner and lighter than their predecessors. The HP Pavilion x360 15.6-Inch Convertible The redesigned 11.6- and 13.3-inch Pavilion x360 models are lighter and 12 to 14 percent thinner […]

Netflix users who watch streaming videos on their mobile devices across cellular connections now have a new mobile data control tool that can help protect them from blowing over their mobile plan’s data caps. The cellular data control tool, which has been integrated into the latest Android and iOS versions of the Netflix mobile app, […]

Apple’s App Store has been returning improper search results to user queries since early May 5 as Apple works to find a fix for the glitch. Apple has acknowledged a problem on its system status Webpage, which states that the App Store “service is not working as expected for all users,” and is accompanied by […]

Dish Network is getting into the iPhone repair business with a new on-site mobile phone repair service that will be performed by Dish technicians wherever a phone owner is located, including their home, office, gym or other destination. The Dish Smart Phone Repair offering, which is available immediately, will send a Dish technician who is […]

When Apple Music launched in June 2015, the company thought it had a winning offering that would rise to the top of a growing streaming music market and attract many millions of users to sign up for its $9.99-a-month service. But while more than 10 million users did sign up in the first six months, […]

A 29-year-old California woman with multiple criminal convictions recently had her fingerprint taken by the FBI so that the agency could access the data on her iPhone as part of an investigation. And while such incidents are relatively rare today, they could become more prevalent in the future as law enforcement authorities look to use […]

Sprint, which has consistently been losing large amounts of money for a decade, may have just seen some daylight in its fourth-quarter and full-year 2015 earnings report. The company again lost money—$554 million or 14 cents per share—in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2015 ended March 31, but for the full year of 2015, the […]

HP has debuted a new generation of notebook and convertible portable computers that are thinner and lighter than its previous models, as well as a new all-in-one computer and a Pavilion desktop machine with a footprint 30 percent smaller than its earlier version. The latest machines are aimed at a wide range of customers, from […]

Samsung is developing an advanced, stand-alone VR headset that won’t require a user to link it to a compatible smartphone, which is necessary with the company’s basic $100 Gear VR consumer headset. The upcoming stand-alone virtual reality headset will incorporate advanced features, including positional tracking that is not found in the Gear VR, according to […]

Oculus began shipping its long-awaited $599 Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets to early buyers on March 28 but a decision by the company to sell some Rift devices in Best Buy stores starting May 7 is making preorder buyers who are still waiting for their devices very angry. “Today we’re excited to share more details […]