Todd R. Weiss

Verizon continues to be interested in potentially acquiring Yahoo for the 1 billion people who use its email, finance, sports and video services; its broad online content offerings and its heavy Web traffic. The mobile carrier upped its pursuit by recently enlisting the help of the CEO of its AOL unit to research its strategy, […]

When life threw me some curves just before Christmas, I hit the road and ran away from home, taking two smartphones, a tablet, a mobile WiFi hotspot and my love for travel and adventure. I rented a car, stopped my mail, made several Airbnb reservations across North Carolina and Tennessee and headed out, blasting the […]

Apple has open sourced its Swift Benchmarking Suite just two months after making the Swift programming language itself open source back in December. The company made the announcement in a Feb. 8 post on the Swift Blog. The benchmarking suite includes source code for benchmarks, libraries and utilities that are designed to help track Swift […]

Apple is advising owners of damaged iPhone 6 smartphones that have been repaired by third-party service centers to contact Apple Support if their phones are now displaying “Error 53” messages on their screens. The Error 53 messages, which were revealed in recent reports by The Guardian, apparently are generated on a late model iPhone if […]

Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset that works with a smartphone to provide users with expanded VR capabilities compared to the company’s original smartphone-based Google Cardboard viewers. The upcoming VR device, which will also include additional support for the Android operating system, is expected to be released this year and is […]

OnePlus has permanently lowered the price of its OnePlus 2 smartphone to $349, a $40 drop from its original price of $389 when it was launched in the United States in August 2015. The company announced the lower price in a Feb. 8 post on its Website, explaining that increasing production and sales figures inspired […]

Since June 1994, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has showcased important and notable cars, trucks and motorcycles in its collection for display to the general public. But over the years, the museum—housed since its creation in a building originally built as a department store—never caught up with the rush of technology, missing out […]

Apple customers can now trade in damaged iPhones toward the purchase of new iPhones under a program that the company is starting this week, replacing Apple’s long-standing policy of not accepting damaged iPhones on trade. Apple will also begin selling aftermarket screen protectors for iPhones in Apple Stores and will install them for customers in […]

Foxconn’s $5 billion takeover offer for Sharp is being put on a fast track by the Taiwanese electronics assembler as it pushes forward on the proposed acquisition to win out over a bailout offer that’s backed by the Japanese government. Foxconn, which is the largest worldwide assembler of Apple’s iPhones, has been tussling for Sharp […]

Mozilla’s Firefox OS smartphone software project is being shut down in the next few months as the company continues to wrap up the remaining parts of its failed Firefox smartphone line. Ari Jaaksi, the company’s senior vice president of connected devices, announced that Version 2.6 of Firefox OS for smartphones will be the last version […]

Pebble’s latest Pebble Time smartphone app versions add a host of updates and improvements for controlling functions on Pebble smartwatches, giving users more options for messaging, health tracking and more. The latest updates, which were announced by Pebble in a Feb. 3 post on the Pebble Blog, are included in the Android and iOS versions […]

Almost a year after announcing that it will bring its most popular games to smartphones and tablets, Nintendo says it is readying its first mobile gaming app, Miitomo, for release in March in North America for iOS and Android devices. Users can preregister for the new Miitomo app starting Feb. 17, according to a Feb. […]