Todd R. Weiss

Apple wants to streamline and standardize the appearance of product packages in its Apple Stores by having third-party vendors use new packaging that has been designed in cooperation with the company. The push to standardize product packaging for customers was revealed in a July 7 article by Silicon Angle, which said that the move is […]

More than 3 billion people around the world today are online, but hundreds of millions of them are only able to use the Internet via a mobile device such as a smartphone due to a lack of affordable local Internet access. While that’s not terrible, it still means that they can’t easily take advantage of […]

Samsung’s estimated second-quarter 2015 figures show expected drops in revenue and profit as the huge technology company continues to be plagued by disappointing financial results. In estimates released July 6, Samsung said it expects to report operating profits of $6.1 billion for the quarter ended June 30, which is a 4 percent drop from the […]

Janam’s New Mobile Handheld Business Computer Handles RFID UHF Tags By Todd R. Weiss Up Close with the Janam XM2-RFID UHF Handheld Computer The latest Janam handheld includes a 3.2 inch QVGA resistive touch-screen display with an LED backlight, an ARM 9 processor, 128MB of RAM and 128MB of on-board storage and runs on the […]

Google quietly ended its eyeglass-mounted Google Glass program on Jan. 19, before it ever offered the devices to the public for retail sales, but its recent filings with the Federal Communications Commission could be early evidence the company is working on a next-generation version of the devices. In a May 15 letter to the FCC’s […]

Android smartphones gained 2.9 percentage points of market share in the United States in the three months ending May 31, helping Android-powered devices grab 64.9 percent of the U.S. market so far this year, according to the latest figures from research firm Kantar Worldpanel Com Tech. At the same time, Android market share fell in […]

The latest ruggedized enterprise handheld computer from Janam Technologies, the XM2-RFID UHF, adds a new tool for businesses that require the accurate reading of specialized RFID tags used in a wide range of industries, including retail, transportation and logistics, manufacturing and defense. The XM2-RFID UHF handheld, which lists at $2,295, reads ISO18000-63, EPC Global Class […]

MasterCard is looking at using facial recognition and fingerprints as more secure and simpler ways of authorizing consumer purchases made using mobile devices. The company, one of the largest credit card processing firms in the world, will launch a pilot program this fall with about 500 customers who will use fingerprints and/or facial scans to […]

Smartphone thefts in California are expected to continue a downward trend now that the state’s new “kill-switch” law went into effect on July 1. The law, which requires every new cell phone sold in the state to prompt consumers to enable kill switches as the default setting during the initial setup of their devices, aims […]

Fans of No-Contract Phones Get More Android Choices by Todd R. Weiss Motorola Moto E From AT&T The second-generation Moto E has a 4.5-inch thin-film-transistor display with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 surface, a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of on-board storage, which is expandable to 32GB via a microSD […]

Apple must pay consumers a total of $450 million in damages after the company lost an appeal of a 2013 court decision, which found that Apple illegally conspired with ebook publishers to raise prices starting in 2010. In the latest legal round in the price-fixing case, a three-judge panel in the Second U.S. Circuit Court […]

Inside the NU2S Unlocked Smartphone From NUU Mobile By Todd R. Weiss The NUU NU2S Unlocked Smartphone Despite its low price tag, the NU2S features a bright 4.5-inch qHD touch-screen display and is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 quad-core processor, a MediaTek MTK 6582 chipset and 512MB of RAM. Expandable Storage, Long Battery […]