Todd R. Weiss

BlackBerry OS users will soon lose the Facebook app for the BlackBerry 10 OS as Facebook drops support for the stand-alone app due to the platform’s small market share. With the demise of the Facebook app for BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry users will still be able to access the social media site through a Web browser […]

Fossil Refines Its Smartwatches, Updates Fitness Tracker Based on customer input, the next Fossil Q smartwatches will have slightly smaller bodies. The company is also adding two app-enabled analog watches. The Fossil Q Wander Smartwatch The upcoming Q Wander smartwatch features a soft curving, multi-finish case with sculpted wire lugs that hold the wristband, giving […]

Samsung is working on an experimental headphone project that could one day bring the “feel” of movement to virtual-reality gaming and programming through algorithms and electrical signals via a wearer’s ears. The Entrim 4D VR headphones project, an experimental effort in Samsung’s C-Lab research unit, was unveiled at the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in […]

As the first preordered Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets begin shipping on March 28, some 30 new VR gaming titles will also become available to play on the new devices. Oculus announced the first 30 titles in a March 16 post on the Oculus Blog, along with details about the latest improvements to the Oculus […]

Samsung’s newest flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones arrived in my home office this past week for reviews, and I must admit that initially I wasn’t too excited. The reason for my first reaction was that I’m still using a 3-year-old Samsung Galaxy S4 phone as my main mobile device, and its grossly underwhelming […]

Fossil has unveiled two new models in its Fossil Q Android Wear smartwatch line and an improved activity tracker that gains smart tap controls and replaceable batteries. Also debuting are two new analog watches that connect with smartphone apps to give users wider capabilities. The new devices were announced by Fossil in a March 15 […]

Sony is bringing virtual-reality game play to its PlayStation entertainment systems with a new $399 PlayStation VR headset that will go on sale starting in October. The company’s VR headset was announced by Andrew House, president and global CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, at the 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 15 […]

Distraught, suicidal or injured smartphone users who rely on their handset’s personal digital assistant software to get help in an emergency may not get the assistance they need, according to a new study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The report, published by JAMA’s Internal Medicine division on March 14, reviewed […]

Verizon customers who crave having a new Samsung smartphone each year now get their wish through Verizon’s Annual Upgrade Program, which will let users get a new Galaxy phone after they have paid for at least 50 percent of the cost of the phone they are presently using. Under the program, customers will be able […]

What the $90, Feature-Rich LG Spree Brings to Cricket Wireless With a 4.5-inch display, 4G LTE speed and a 5-megapixel rear camera, the Spree offers plenty of useful features for under $100. The LG Spree Smartphone The LG Spree includes 4.5-inch FWVGA (854-by-480) color display, a 1.1GHz quad-core Qualcomm MSM8909 processor and 1GB of memory […]