Todd R. Weiss

Music sales around the world continued to change dramatically in 2015, with 45 percent of global music sales coming in for digital music, compared with 39 percent of sales from old-fashioned CDs, vinyl albums and other formats. That’s the conclusion of a recent report from the IFPI, a London-based international trade body for the recording […]

Apple will pay a $24.9 million settlement to resolve a 2012 patent infringement lawsuit over the introduction of its Siri voice-activated digital personal assistant application in the iPhone 4S smartphone in 2011. The $24.9 million will be paid to Dynamic Advances, the exclusive licensee of a patent from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., according […]

Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile Offer 3 New Smartphones for Under $230 The Kyocera Hydro Reach, the LG G Stylo 2 and the Samsung Galaxy J7 are the latest additions from the no-contract, prepaid carriers. The Kyocera Hydro Reach Smartphone The $100 Kyocera Hydro Reach, which replaces the company’s original Hydro Edge phone, features a Qualcomm […]

YouTube has bolstered its 360-degree video offerings with its latest technical addition—live streaming capabilities and spatial audio. The new features were unveiled in an April 18 post by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, on The YouTube Blog. In the past, YouTube content creators could create 360-degree content, but could not live stream it. YouTube […]

The Internet of things will potentially be able to connect with some 10 billion pieces of clothing over the next three years as part of a newly unveiled deal between label and RFID company Avery Dennison and IoT smart products platform vendor Evrything. The idea, the companies said in an April 18 announcement, is that […]

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2016 (WWDC) will be held from June 13 through 17 in San Francisco, but if you want a chance to attend, you’d better get moving. Online registration for a random lottery that will distribute the $1,599 event tickets ends at 1 p.m. EDT on April 22, giving would-be attendees only a […]

Apple’s MacBooks just got a round of key improvements, including the latest Intel Core M processors, faster graphics performance and flash storage, and as much as an hour of longer battery life. The updates, which also for the first time include a Rose Gold color finish on a MacBook, were unveiled by Apple in an […]

Amazon is beginning to sell $8.99-a-month stand-alone streaming video subscriptions as it moves to increase its presence in the streaming movie marketplace against competitors, such as Netflix. The new streaming video subscription plans from Amazon, which are $1 a month less than similar plans from Netflix, were unveiled by Amazon on April 17 on the […]

LinkedIn has launched its first LinkedIn Students app that is custom-built to assist U.S.-based college students and new grads in finding interesting jobs that they are qualified for based on their degrees, their skills and their experience. Available in versions for iOS and Android users, the LinkedIn Students app was created using insights from those […]

Worldwide smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2016 fell by 18.6 percent to 292 million devices compared with the fourth quarter of 2015, but Apple’s performance was even worse, with its iPhone shipments dropping by 43.8 percent in Q1. Market saturation led to the drops in shipments, according to a new global smartphone report […]