Todd R. Weiss

Amazon.com just raised the minimum order threshold for free shipping to $49 on Feb. 22 without announcing it to customers ahead of time, an increase of 40 percent from the former $35 minimum order that was required through Feb. 21. That might be fine by Amazon, but I think they made a huge mistake. Didn’t […]

Fourteen McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden will offer special Happy Meal boxes that can be folded into simple “Happy Goggles” virtual reality viewers under a special promotion being held for two weekends in March. About 3,500 of the special foldable Happy Meal boxes for children will be available over the weekends of March 5 and March […]

Lenovo Adds New Business Tablets, 2-in-1s, Convertible Tablet Lenovo’s Tab3 business tablets, Yoga 510 and 710 convertible laptops, and the Ideapad Miix 310 two-in-one detachable tablet add options for users. The Lenovo Tab3 8 Consumer Tablet The Lenovo Tab3 8 features an 8-inch HD IPS display, a MediaTek 1GHz quad-core 64-bit processor, 1GB or 2GB […]

Rumors continue to circulate about the reported debut date for Apple’s upcoming smaller iPhone 5se and the smaller 9.7-inch iPad Pro version, which will both apparently be unveiled on or about March 21. Only a week ago, the expected debut date for the devices was March 15. The latest debut date was revealed in a […]

WhatsApp will end support for BlackBerry, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.2 and 2.1, and Windows Phone 7.1 mobile operating systems by the end of 2016 as the user bases for the platforms have continued to shrink. The move, which comes as consumers have flocked instead to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems […]

It can be a scary world out there for employees who do their jobs in potentially dangerous situations, such as social workers or mental health agency caseworkers who sometimes see clients in volatile situations in sketchy neighborhoods. Their bosses or co-workers may know they are out there in the field, but they don’t have any […]

Smartphone maker OnePlus will begin selling its latest flagship handset, the OnePlus 3 smartphone, by the end of the second quarter of 2016. The OnePlus 3 will continue the company’s tradition of being offered initially only through an invitation-only system and could include a fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and a 1080p display, according to […]

When Apple unveils its rumored smaller 9.7-inch tablet on March 15, previous reports said the device would have the iPad Air 3 moniker. But new reports now say that Apple will unveil the latest tablet as a smaller version of its premier enterprise-focused 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet. The latest iPad details and rumors were revealed […]

How HP’s Elite x3 Smartphone Can Power Your Next PC The HP Elite x3 is available with an optional notebooklike mobile dock that lets users extend the phone into a full-featured PC on the go. The HP Elite x3 Smartphone Featuring a 5.96-inch, diagonal, WQHD AMOLED touch-screen display, the Elite x3 also includes a Qualcomm […]

Panasonic Shows Off Windows 10, Android Toughpad Tablets The new Toughpad FZ series handheld tablets feature 4.7-inch HD displays and are water-resistant and ruggedized for business users. Panasonic Toughpad EZ Series Handheld Tablets Both the Toughpad FZ-F1 (pictured on left) and the Toughpad FZ-N1 machines include quad-core Qualcomm MSM8974AB 2.3GHz processors, 2GB of memory, 16GB […]