Todd R. Weiss

Since Samsung rolled out its Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge flagship smartphones in March, the company has been noticeably mum about a successor to its larger Galaxy Note 5 phablet, which has been out since August 2015. That’s now changed as Samsung has finally revealed plans to showcase its upcoming Galaxy Note 7 phablet in […]

Comcast business phone customers across the United States suffered through a five-hour service disruption on July 12, knocking out business-critical phone services affecting an undisclosed number of small- and midsize-business customers of the cable giant. The outage was confirmed by a Comcast spokesman, who told eWEEK on July 13 that service was restored by 8:30 […]

Virtual reality vendor Oculus is now shipping its Oculus Rift headsets in two to four days for new orders at its Website after recently filling all of the preorders it had for the devices. The company announced the completion of the preorder shipments in a July 12 post on The Oculus Blog, and apologized to […]

Wearables, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, have been very popular in the last two years with consumers, but the hype about the devices is waning and the technologies behind them are becoming more commoditized, which will likely inspire changes and evolution in the devices themselves. One big coming change is the expected development of […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Active smartphone is the ruggedized version of its popular Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphone line, which are all built to be water-resistant. But in recent tests by Consumer Reports, two S7 Active smartphones apparently failed separate water-submersion tests, causing the phones to stop working and Consumer Reports to call out Samsung […]

Since the Pokémon GO game app’s July 6 release, it has been downloaded to more than 5.16 percent of all Android phones in the United States, while also engaging the average user for more than 43 minutes per day. Those numbers mean that Pokémon GO is already on more Android phones than the Tinder dating […]

Prepaid wireless carriers Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA added the $70 Alcatel Dawn smartphone to their lineups, giving users looking for a low-priced handset with plenty of features another option. The Alcatel Dawn (pictured) is a 4G/3G LTE-capable smartphone that includes a 4.5-inch Full WVGA (854 by 480) thin-film-transistor touch-screen display, a 1.1GHz quad-core […]

The maker of the privacy-focused Blackphone 2 smartphone, Silent Circle, is apparently having money troubles because sales of its $799 device aren’t close to meeting expectations. The company laid off about 20 employees since the beginning of the year, which is about 15 percent of its workforce, and is being sued for more than $5 […]

Samsung’s second-quarter operating profit is expected to be about $7 billion–the highest quarterly profit it has earned in about two years–when it officially reports its Q2 financials later in July, according to preliminary figures the company released on July 8. The estimated operating profit of $7 billion (8.1 trillion Korean won, or KRW) is also […]

Apple has released the public beta version of its upcoming iOS 10 mobile operating system, making it available for Apple users to try out and explore its new features. The iOS 10 Beta was launched as part of the company’s public beta program, which gives users the opportunity to “test-drive” upcoming software releases and provide […]