Todd R. Weiss

Streaming music lovers who are fans of songwriter and guitarist Neil Young better hope they can still dig out their old Neil Young CDs and vinyl albums now that the legendary musician is pulling his music back from streaming media Websites due to what he says is poor audio quality. In a somber personal post […]

Search giant Google chalked up revenue of $17.73 billion and a net profit of $3.93 billion for the second quarter ended June 30, up from revenue of $16 billion and net profit of $3.35 billion for the same period one year ago. The company announced its earnings numbers for the quarter in a conference call […]

U.S. smartphone buyers are experiencing “upgrade fatigue” and are seeing fewer must-have features in the latest smartphones, which is causing lower demand that is largely impacting phone makers such as Samsung over rivals like Apple. That’s the key finding of a new study, “U.S. Smartphone Demand Q2 2015,” released July 16 by research firm Argus […]

In a continuing effort to bring broadband Internet capabilities to more low-income families in the United States, the White House has announced a new ConnectHome pilot project that will be conducted in 27 cities to expand the promise and potential of no-charge or low-cost Internet connectivity to some 275,000 households. Under the new program, some […]

Boost Mobile is now offering no-contract 4G LTE WiFi hotspot data plans and devices to customers, starting at $49.99 for a mobile hotspot device and $25 per month for a 1.5GB data plan. A 10GB mobile hotspot data plan is also available for $50 a month. The portable mobile hotspot device used for the new […]

Apple has introduced its latest iPod Touch, featuring a wide range of improvements including a more powerful processor, faster graphics, better still image and video cameras, and upgraded fitness tracking capabilities. The new iPod Touch devices, which come three years since their last version and range from $199 for a 16GB model to $399 for […]

Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Smartphone: Lots of Features for the Price by Todd R. Weiss Inside the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime The Galaxy Grand Prime is built around a 5-inch qHD PLS touch-screen display with 960 by 540 resolution, a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor and 1.5GB of RAM for solid performance for users. 8GB […]

If you think that by deleting the Google Photos app from your devices it will stop collecting your photos, think again. Even after being deleted from a smartphone, tablet or other device, the app continues to back up and upload a user’s photos, which is not being appreciated by at least one user who is […]

Consumer tablet computer shipments keep falling, but in the first quarter of 2015, they fell by 35 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2014, giving the category its worst quarter-to-quarter decline since it was first tracked in 2009. Year-over-year, the decline was 16 percent. Those are the key conclusions of a recent market analysis […]

T-Mobile customers can now get 10GB of high-speed 4G LTE data plus unlimited calling and texting for each of four Family Plan users for a total of $120 under a special promotion that is available through Labor Day, Sept. 7. The promotion, unveiled July 14, is part of T-Mobile’s latest Un-carrier Amped announcements, which offer […]

When Nokia sold its smartphone division to Microsoft in April 2014 for $7.1 billion, the company left a business where it had been a major player for more than a decade. It looked like Nokia was done with smartphones. Then rumors began in April that Nokia was getting back into the smartphone game, with reports […]

Apple’s iPhones helped the company bring in 92 percent of the first-quarter profits of the eight largest vendors in the global smartphone marketplace, leaving the remaining 8 percent to all its competitors combined. Making that even more incredible is that Apple sells only about 20 percent of the smartphones on the market while its roughly […]