Todd R. Weiss

T-Mobile’s CEO and president John Legere certainly has a reputation for being brash, for effusive cursing during public appearances and for speaking his mind. But Legere might not have realized how quickly and passionately his public comments might come back to bite him when he literally cursed out the non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently […]

Skype is bringing group video chat capabilities to its free consumer mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile for the first time, giving consumers the chance to have video chats with a group of friends at one time. The new group video chat feature was unveiled by Gurdeep Pall, a Microsoft vice president […]

The next generations of Moto smartphones will get integrated fingerprint readers and larger screens of at least 5 inches as the rebranded smartphone maker works to compete more effectively in the mobile marketplace. The details of the coming features were revealed recently by Chen Xudong, mobile chief of Moto’s parent company, Lenovo, according to a […]

Apple’s latest beta versions of its iOS, OS X El Capitan, watchOS and tvOS operating systems debuted Jan. 11 for developers and users to download, test out and explore on their Apple devices. The latest betas, which are available for immediate download, include iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4, watchOS 2.2 and tvOS 9.2, as well […]

Amazon is expanding its same-day college order pickup service to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this spring as it continues to experiment with new ways of delivering products to its customers. The service, which is being called Amazon@Penn, will feature a pickup point where customers will be able to stop in to get their […]

The Apple Watch quickly captured 52 percent of the global smartwatch market in 2015, even though the first Apple Watches didn’t go on sale until last April. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Juniper Research, which found that the popularity of the Apple Watch eclipsed the shipments of competing products from rival companies […]

Apple Music has passed the 10 million subscriber plateau, hitting that mark in just six months—which is 10 times faster than the six years it took competitor Spotify to hit the same milestone. The 10 million subscribers for Apple Music were revealed in a Jan. 10 report by The Financial Times, which was based on […]

AT&T is ramping up its efforts to get customers to also sign up for its DirecTV or U-Verse TV programming subscription services by offering them unlimited data on their AT&T mobile phone accounts so they can watch videos or TV shows anywhere. The new AT&T Unlimited Plan was unveiled by the company on Jan.11, starting […]

Motorola Mobility will soon stop using the Motorola brand name as it moves to remove the historic nameplate from its smartphones in deference to its Moto and Vibe product names. The rebranding, which Motorola Mobility CEO Rick Osterloh revealed at the CES 2016 event in Las Vegas, was confirmed Jan. 8 by a company spokeswoman […]

Toshiba launched its DynaPad 12-inch tablet computer at CES 2016, featuring a suite of the company’s business applications, Windows 10 and a built-in Wacom TruPen that allows users to create pictures and text on the device for capture and inclusion in documents and emails. The DynaPad is available immediately for preorders from Microsoft stores or […]