Todd R. Weiss

Walmart is now offering customers a 30-day free trial of its $49-a-year, 2-day ShippingPass package delivery service, which launched last year as it beefs up a campaign to take on the two-day Amazon Prime shipping service of one of its major competitors. The free 30-day trial will be offered to new customers, while existing customers […]

HP’s Lighter, Thinner Chromebook 11 G5 Boasts Touch-Screen Option The new Chromebook, which will debut in July starting at $189, is aimed at a wide range of users from students to enterprise workers. The HP Chromebook 11 G5 The latest Chromebook includes an Intel Celeron dual-core N3060 processor with Intel HD Graphics 400, 4GB of […]

No matter where a book lover travels, they can automatically be accompanied by digital versions of many of their favorite books from their home collections through Shelfie, a new mobile app that helps users acquire free or inexpensive digital versions of a wide variety of print books. Shelfie lets users take smartphone photographs of each […]

Twitter is busy getting into the virtual reality and augmented reality marketplaces by building a team of developers who will focus on VR and AR and through the recent acquisition of a machine learning company that can help with such development. The creation of the VR and AR team was revealed in a June 28 […]

Amazon Prime members now can buy unlocked 4G LTE Android smartphones at discounts of up to 50 percent on the purchase of selected handset models from Blu and Moto under a new Prime customer benefit. The discount pricing of the phones, however, is “supported by personalized offers and ads, including deals and product recommendations, displayed […]

Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile Unveil the Budget $80 LG K3 Smartphone The low-priced LG K3 smartphone is packed with a bright 4.5-inch display, a quad-core CPU and more, giving users another no-contract handset option. The LG K3 Budget Smartphone The LG K3 handset is a 3G/4G LTE-capable handset that features a 4.5-inch full wide VGA […]

Airbnb is taking San Francisco to U.S. District Court over rules the city recently approved that mandate that Airbnb allow rental housing listings on its site only for hosts who have registered with the city. That requirement, argues Airbnb in its lawsuit, is a violation of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), the Stored Communications […]

HP is growing its Chromebook line with the addition of the Chromebook 11 G5, which will offer an optional touch-screen display and a redesigned chassis that pares weight and offers a thinner bezel around the machine’s 11.6-inch display. The new Chromebook 11 G5 will start at $189 with a standard HD non-touch-screen In-Plane Switching (IPS) […]

Smartphones designed by Google itself could hit the world market by the end of 2016, giving the company more control and oversight of its hugely popular Android mobile operating system and helping it take on Apple more directly in the smartphone wars. That’s Google’s plan for the near future, according to a June 26 story […]

When the first rumors began popping up in May about two planned HTC Nexus Android smartphones, no details at all were available for the handsets, which left a lot of specifications to be filled in later. Now more details, in the form of the latest unconfirmed rumors, have popped up about at least one of […]