Todd R. Weiss

Two major pharmaceutical companies are using Apple’s ResearchKit open-source project in experiments aimed at helping medical researchers gain more data and fresh insights as they seek ways to battle human diseases and illnesses. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline confirmed its work in a July 10 tweet, saying the company is “looking @ Apple’s #ResearchKit for clinical trials,” […]

Comcast is beta testing a new cable Internet service that will allow subscribers to pay about $15 a month for a package of live television stations, all over their cable Internet connections. The fledgling service, called Stream, is in beta testing in Boston and is expected to launch in that city to Comcast Xfinity Internet […]

The latest ZenPad Android tablets from Asus are arriving in the United States and are available immediately from BestBuy.com for $99.99 for the 7-inch model and $199.99 for the 8-inch version. The ZenPads feature WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and quad-core processors in an easy-to-handle tablet. The new devices are variants of the original ZenPad S […]

Baseball lovers now have something to relish as they spend hours driving in their vehicles: a new baseball history app from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum that can turn every drive into a baseball adventure in cities and towns across the country. The interactive free iOS app, called BHOF Beacon, debuted earlier […]

Samsung, looking for an edge to light a fire under its lagging smartphone sales figures, will unveil its next Galaxy Note phablet in mid-August, at least several weeks earlier than its typical autumn release announcements, in an effort to beat Apple in the constant race for new buyers. The planned early release of the next […]

Ruggedized notebook sales fell 27 percent in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the same period one year ago, which shrank the market to the smallest it has been in four years, according to new report from VDC Research. The report, VDC’s Rugged Mobile Quarterly Tracker, explained that the drop was due to a […]

Verizon is now offering the Lumia 735 smartphone for sale in its U.S. retail stores, after initially unveiling the handset to online buyers in June. Verizon, which is offering customers several ways of obtaining the Microsoft Lumia 735, on July 9 announced the availability of the 4G LTE phone. Customers can get the device for […]

Cooperstown’s Baseball App Is Ready for MLB’s All-Star Game By Todd R. Weiss Unveiling the BHOF Beacon App Behind this opening screen, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Beacon App is filled with a wide array of historic baseball points of interest, history and fascinating facts and trivia. The 11.7MB download is presently […]

T-Mobile will now include calling, texting and 4G LTE data to and from Canada and Mexico for all customers who have Simple Choice mobile calling plans with the carrier. The no-extra-charge “Mobile without Borders” services will begin July 15 for all T-Mobile customers, whether they are initiating or receiving any calls or texts between the […]

Sprint will begin selling Samsung’s Galaxy Grand Prime 4G LTE smartphone July 10 for $29.99 with a two-year contract after a $50 rebate or for $240 without a contract. The Galaxy Grand Prime packs a lot of features into a low-priced smartphone, including a 5-inch qHD PLS (quarter high-definition) display with 960×540 resolution, a 1.2GHz […]

While Samsung, Apple, Lenovo, Huawei and LG are getting most of the headlines as the top 5 players in the smartphone wars by market share in early 2015, Sony’s CEO says his company will definitely stick around to battle its rivals in the mobile space in the future. Hiroki Totoki, the CEO and president of […]

All U.S. flights on United Airlines were grounded for about two hours early on July 8 due to what the airline calls a “network connectivity issue” that kept airplanes out of the skies. The outage was reported by the airline to the Federal Aviation Administration about 8 a.m. EDT, which led to a ground stop […]