Todd R. Weiss

Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone owners will be able to begin exchanging their now-recalled phones for new non-flawed devices starting Sept. 21, according to advisories from mobile carriers AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Verizon customers can also exchange their phones, but the carrier has not yet issued a formal statement about the exchange or refund program. Some […]

A year into the use of EMV chip-based credit cards in the United States, fraud against consumers and merchants has dropped 54 percent for merchants who have made the switch, according to payment processor MasterCard. That’s great, but the downside of chip cards—that agonizing 10- to 20-second delay at cash registers equipped with the chip-card […]

Janam XT2 Rugged Handheld Computer Now Offers Windows 10 Option Previously available only with Android 5.0 Lollipop, Janam’s latest XT2 rugged handheld computer comes with Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise preloaded. Here’s a look at the device’s key features. The Janam XT2 Windows 10 IoT Rugged Handheld Computer The device has a 5-inch HD WVGA […]

TomTom Bridge Connected Uses Navigation, Android Apps to Manage Fleets Navigation, select Android apps and email are included as part of the new TomTom Bridge Connected system. The TomTom Bridge Connected In-Vehicle Tablet With its tabletlike format, TomTom Bridge Connected features a 7-inch WSVGA touch-screen display, a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1GB of memory and […]

The virtual reality marketplace, recently dominated by Samsung and Oculus, will soon see both companies falling behind as newer, smaller companies gain momentum and overtake the current market leaders, according to a recent report by Lux Research. The study, which looked at 22 VR devices with built-in displays among the total of 87 models reviewed, […]

As expected, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled Samsung’s latest Galaxy Note7 smartphone following a growing number of reports of fires and explosions caused by a defect in the batteries in the handsets. The recall, known as Recall No. 16-266, was announced Sept. 15 and applies to all Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones sold […]

Apple’s new iPhone 7 flagship smartphones have been in such demand during preorders that the company is already sold out of its initial opening day supplies of the jet black iPhone 7 and all colors of its larger iPhone 7 Plus handsets as their Sept. 16 launch date looms. The company announced the thinning supplies […]

Soon after Apple began rolling out its latest iOS 10 mobile operating system to iPhone, iPad and iPod devices on Sept. 13, some users reported glitches that left their devices “bricked” and nonfunctional, a problem that Apple quickly fixed. The iOS 10 bricking issue began surfacing just after users could begin installing the new operating […]

Samsung’s global recall of its Galaxy Note7 smartphones, which have experienced at least 35 cases of battery fires or explosions, is proceeding, but in the meantime the company is pushing out a software update that will limit Note7 battery charging to 60 percent of a full charge to prevent further fire incidents. The Samsung Note7 […]

Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones, which were unveiled Sept. 7 and have been open for preorders since Sept. 9, are seeing healthy preorder numbers so far, according to reports from mobile carriers T-Mobile and Sprint. The latest handsets, which are slated to be available to customers starting Sept. 16, have already outranked […]