Todd R. Weiss

Amazon’s eighth-generation e-reader, the $289.99 Kindle Oasis, is available for preorder as the company adds a fourth Kindle model to its line of e-readers for all budgets. The Oasis is the thinnest and lightest Kindle e-reader built so far, with a weight of 4.6 ounces and a thickness of just 0.13 inches, all in the […]

Taiwanese mobile products company HTC has unveiled the HTC 10, its latest flagship smartphone, featuring a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, vastly improved front and rear cameras, and upgraded audio capabilities for better music playback. The HTC 10, which was announced by the company in an online Web debut on April 12, features a 5.2-inch, […]

Apple Watch shipments are predicted to drop by some 25 percent in 2016, fueled by shortcomings in the product’s app ecosystem, its reliance on an accompanying iPhone and the still-fledgling nature of the wearable device market, according to a recent analyst report. The investment note, by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, estimates that Apple sold […]

BlackBerry CEO John Chen says his company will release two new less expensive Android smartphone models later in 2016 in an effort to win back customers and increase sales after its flagship, high-end Android Priv phone failed to catch on with buyers as much as the company had hoped. The Priv (pictured), which BlackBerry targeted […]

Mobile devices are popular today, and their popularity won’t wane in the next 10 years, even as newer technologies appear on the scene. The reason for their longstanding appeal is that consumers will continue to find new uses for them as they find more and more ways that their mobile devices serve their needs. That’s […]

The global virtual reality headset market will bring in about $895 million in revenue in 2016, but while 77 percent of that revenue will come for premium-priced products from Oculus, HTC and Sony, the actual per-device sales totals will be dominated by lower-priced headsets from a myriad of vendors. That’s the conclusion of a new […]

Samsung’s latest Convoy 4 rugged flip phone, which the company built for enterprise workers who do their jobs in challenging environmental conditions, is available immediately, exclusively through Verizon Wireless. The $192 handset is the latest entry in the rugged mobile marketplace, which offers phones for workers in construction sites, warehouses, factory floors and other extreme […]

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is launching its latest flagship phones, the P9 and its larger stablemate the P9 Plus, in markets around the globe starting April 16. The handsets feature new dual-lens cameras, long battery life and biometric fingerprint readers for security and privacy. The new phones, which will help the company compete globally with […]

An FAA committee is recommending that some drone flights over humans be permitted if the devices are small enough not to cause serious injuries should a crash occur. Presently, all drone flights are forbidden over people not connected to the flight of the unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a formal name for drones and other small […]

Verizon remains very interested in acquiring Yahoo’s Web business as an April 11 first-round bid deadline approaches, while other potential bidders, including AT&T and Comcast, have apparently dropped out of the competition for the company. Google, at the same time, could be interested in bidding for Yahoo’s core business as well, according to an April […]