Todd R. Weiss

T-Mobile has expanded its Simple Global calling plans for customers, adding 20 more nations around the world where customers can use unlimited data and texting while making cellular calls for a flat rate of 20 cents per minute. Under the expanded Simple Global plans, Simple Choice postpaid customers can now make calls and use unlimited […]

Apple is spending up to $30 million to acquire Mapsense, a mapping visualization startup, to bolster its mapping assets as it continues to develop better map tools in iOS 9 and other Apple products. The Mapsense deal, which will bring the company’s 12-person team together with Apple, was reported Sept. 17 in an article by […]

Apple postponed the release of its watchOS 2 operating system software update for the Apple Watch due to flaws in its code. Held up at the last minute, the release was originally scheduled for Sept. 16. An Apple spokesman attributed the problems to the discovery of a “bug in [the] development of watchOS 2 that […]

AT&T will now let unlimited data customers use as much as 22GB of mobile data in a month before throttling back the user’s speeds due to overuse, which is more than four times the former 5GB monthly limit that the company previously imposed on customers. AT&T made the announcement in a recent post on its […]

The latest enterprise-class tablets from Zebra Technologies, the ET50 and the ET55, are available with either Windows Industry Embedded 8.1 Pro or Android 5.1 operating systems, as well as with 8.3-inch or 10.1-inch displays, giving users a wide range of options to find the devices that best fit their business needs. Both models, which Zebra […]

Hot on the heels of Apple’s latest iPhone 6s smartphones and Samsung’s recent Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5 handsets, LG Electronics is planning its own product launch event on Oct. 1 in New York City, though no details have been announced beyond press invitations. That, of course, means little to the swirling rumor mills, […]

Janam Technologies has unveiled its latest XG3-ER rugged handheld business computer, which includes a special barcode reader that lets business and industrial users read barcodes from as far as 50 feet away. Equipped with an Intermec EX25 near/far imager and auto-focusing, the XG3-ER can read virtually any kind of 1D and 2D barcode, as well […]

Apple’s new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus smartphones will arrive Sept. 25, and the big four U.S. mobile carriers all want to be the ones to sell you your new device and cellular services. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are all offering preorders for the new phones, but they are also offering slightly different options […]

Apple’s new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones will each apparently have 2GB of RAM when they are available for sale on Sept. 25, which is twice the 1GB of memory included in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets. The increased RAM, which certainly will contribute to the increased performance claims for […]

Apple is shutting down the HopStop public transit and mapping app that it bought in 2013 as it moves to integrate transit and mapping services for customers in iOS 9, which will be released Sept. 16. The closing of HopStop was reported Sept. 12 by Fortune, which attributed the move to Apple’s desire to bring […]

Apple’s preorders for iPhone 6s models are coming in so quickly that the company believes that it could exceed the all-time iPhone first-weekend sales records that were set with the release of the company’s iPhone 6 models in September 2014. “Customer response to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been extremely positive and preorders […]

LAS VEGAS—As Verizon moves forward with its plans to do early field trials of nascent 5G wireless technology in the United States starting in 2016, it has assembled a pool of partners to help turn ideas for the next generation of wireless performance into reality. One of those partners, Samsung, is here this week at […]