Todd R. Weiss

HTC’s earnings were hit hard in the first quarter of 2016 as the smartphone and consumer mobile device company saw its revenue fall 64 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The company posted a loss of $80 million in the latest quarter, compared to a net profit of $11 million one year ago. […]

T-Mobile will later this summer bring mobile roaming, text and talk services to its customers traveling in Cuba, and is today offering a new program that lets customers call landlines or mobile phones in Cuba at prices that are discounted from their regular rates. The mobile roaming, text and talk services are the result of […]

Kyocera’s latest ruggedized smartphone, the DuraForce XD, will go on sale through T-Mobile starting May 11 for $449.99, making it the first rugged handset being offered by the carrier. The DuraForce XD is a 4G LTE smartphone that features a 5.7-inch HD, In-Plane Switching (IPS), impact-resistant touch-screen display (1,280 by 720 pixels); a Qualcomm Snapdragon […]

10 Mother’s Day Gifts and Gadgets for Techie Moms With Mother’s Day coming up, here are some great ideas for some useful and unusual gadgets and gifts for the mothers in your life. Customizable Smartphone Cases Protective and decorative smartphone cases come in all sizes, colors and designs from a wide range of vendors, but […]

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 […]