Todd R. Weiss

Even now, Samsung still does not know the exact cause of the more than 100 battery fires and explosions reported in its Note7 smartphones before they were recalled twice since September. The conclusion, in an Oct. 23 article by The Wall Street Journal, states that a laboratory report about “scans of some faulty devices showed […]

T-Mobile brought in net income of $366 million on $9.2 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2016, as well as 851,000 net postpaid phone customer additions, all up substantially from the same period one year ago. The $366 million in net income is up 165 percent from $138 million one year ago, due […]

Now that AT&T has confirmed its plans to acquire media and entertainment company Time Warner for $85.4 billion, the focus has shifted to whether the deal will ultimately receive the approval of U.S. regulators and how it will affect the overall telecom and communications segments. AT&T announced the pending acquisition on Oct. 22 as a […]

Kodak has unveiled its first-ever smartphone, the Kodak Ektra, which sports a retro camera-like design and a 21-megapixel fast-focus main rear camera that the company hopes will up the ante with photo enthusiasts on the go. The new 4G LTE-enabled phone, which will be available in Europe later this year for about $550, won’t initially […]

AT&T and Time Warner are in the thick of talks about a possible merger. Meanwhile, Apple, which had expressed similar interest in Time Warner several months ago, is apparently monitoring the situation. The game of possible acquisition musical chairs was reported on Oct. 21 by The Wall Street Journal, which attributed the advanced merger talks […]

Verizon’s net postpaid wireless customer adds in the third quarter of 2016 fell 65.7 percent to 442,000 from a year prior when it added 1.2 million net postpaid customers. Third-quarter revenue fell to $30.9 billion from the $33.2 billion posted a year ago, while net income declined to $3.7 billion from $4.2 billion in 2015, […]

LeEco Le Pro3 and Le S3 Smartphones to Go on Sale in U.S. Chinese smartphone maker LeEco will begin selling its Le Pro3 and its midmarket Le S3 models in the United States. Here’s a look at the handsets’ key features. The $399 LeEco Le Pro3 Smartphone The flagship Le Pro3 handset features a 5.5-inch […]

Moov Rolls Out New Personal Coaching Fitness Wearables The Moov HR Sweat sweatband and the Moov HR Swim swimming cap, which have heart rate sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities, provide personal coaching to users. The Moov HR Sweat Sweatband This is no ordinary sweatband. The Moov HR Sweat is a waterproof sweatband that features a […]

MINNEAPOLIS—With some 20,000 Apple laptops being used around the world by employees of business processing outsourcing company Concentrix, the built-in Apple device management tools, such as Profile Manager, often can’t keep up with the deeper needs of growing enterprises. To solve those limitations, businesses often must find and deploy targeted administrative tools from third-party vendors, […]

MINNEAPOLIS—When patients are admitted to hospitals today, they typically have a white board mounted in their rooms where caregivers list their names, medicines and medical notes to help guide the care of the patient. But at the newly built Jacobs Medical Center in San Diego, white boards have given way to Apple iPads and Apple […]