Todd R. Weiss

Boost Mobile Unveils $70 ZTE Tempo Smartphone The ZTE Tempo budget phone features a 4.5-inch touch-screen display, a quad-core processor, a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. ZTE Tempo Smartphone From Boost Mobile The ZTE Tempo handset features a 4.5-inch touch-screen thin-film-transistor (TFT) display, a Qualcomm MSM8909 1.1GHz processor, 1GB of memory and […]

Since going on sale Oct. 20, Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL Android smartphones are so popular that several versions are completely out of stock and others are apparently taking longer to get to buyers than previously estimated by Google. All 5.5-inch Pixel XL handsets in Quite Black or Very Silver are out of stock in […]

Apple unveiled three new redesigned and rethought MacBook Pro models on Oct. 27, bringing key improvements and enhancements to its popular laptops, from thinner and lighter profiles to a new Touch Bar that replaces the top row of clickable function keys with a touch-screen keyboard strip that enables deep customization options. The latest MacBooks arrive […]

BlackBerry has rolled out its latest Android smartphone, the $499 DTEK60 high-security handset, which is the first phone the company is offering since it declared in September that it would no longer build and distribute its own phone hardware. The DTEK 60, which is being licensed with the BlackBerry name and is being manufactured by […]

Samsung’s third-quarter earnings were hit hard by the recent recall and dropping of its once-flagship Note7 smartphone, as the company’s operating profit fell 30 percent to $4.6 billion (5.2 trillion Korean won, KRW) from $6.4 billion (7.39 trillion KRW) a year ago. The company’s mobile division operating profit was particularly devastated by the Note7 debacle, […]

As it set the wheels in motion for its $85.4 billion planned acquisition of media and entertainment company Time Warner, AT&T also released its third-quarter financial results, posting revenue of $40.9 billion, up from $39.1 billion a year earlier, and net income attributable to AT&T of $3.3 billion, up from $3 billion in 2015. The […]

Sprint’s net operating revenue rose in the second quarter of 2016 to $8.25 billion, up 3 percent from $8 billion one year ago, as the company saw year-over-year net operating revenue growth for the first time in two years. The company is still losing money, however, though its net loss for the second quarter narrowed […]

Kodak’s New Ektra: A Smartphone With a Focus on Cameras Kodak’s Ektra “photography-first” smartphone features a 10-core processor, 3GB of memory, 32GB of on-board storage and a 3,000mAh rechargeable battery. The Kodak Ektra Smartphone The Kodak Ektra sports a retro camera-like design that’s built around a 21-megapixel fast-focus main rear camera that the company hopes […]

Apple’s fourth-quarter revenue and net income fell compared to the same period one year ago, but are up from the third quarter of this year as the company continues to navigate more competitive and unpredictable global market conditions than it has seen in some time. For the full year of 2016, Apple reported revenue of […]

As Samsung continues to work to recover from the battery fires and recall debacles surrounding its now-disgraced Galaxy Note7 flagship smartphones, the company is offering buyers in South Korea a 50 percent discount on a replacement Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge handset, which can then be traded in for free when the upcoming Galaxy S8 […]