Todd R. Weiss

Complaints about slower-than-advertised Internet speeds from Time Warner Cable customers in New York state continue to be a focus of the state’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, who has asked the company’s new owner to “clean up Time Warner Cable’s act.” In a June 8 letter to Tom Rutledge, CEO of Charter Communications, which bought Time […]

Verizon has been identified for weeks as the leading bidder for Yahoo’s Internet business, but other bidders, including AT&T, are apparently giving Verizon some real competition in the fight for Yahoo’s Web assets. In the second round of early bidding that was completed earlier in June, several offers came in above $5 billion, which were […]

China’s ZTE to Sell Its Flagship Axon 7 Smartphone in U.S. The premium handset features a 5.5-inch WQHD touch-screen display and a 20-megapixel main camera and will sell for under $500. The ZTE Axon 7 Smartphone The Axon 7 handset features a 5.5-inch AMOLED Wide Quad HD (WQHD) touch-screen display with 2,560-by-1,440 resolution (538ppi), a […]

Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro smartphone, the first handset to feature Google Tango augmented reality capabilities for consumer use, was unveiled at Lenovo Tech World on June 9 in San Francisco, along with two other Phab phone models and two new Moto Z smartphones that feature modular accessories that can be added and removed as needed. […]

Apple is making changes to its App Store to help increase the earnings potential of the developers who create apps for Apple’s 1 billion users so they stick around to create additional innovative and profitable products for the company’s customers. The changes include ads for their apps appearing in the listings when users perform searches […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Active: A Rugged Smartphone for Tough Workplaces The new ruggedized version of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge handsets is now available exclusively through AT&T. Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Smartphone for Rough Environments The Galaxy S7 Active includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of memory, 32GB of on-board storage, a […]

Yahoo is auctioning off some 3,000 of its technology patents, even as it continues to review bids to sell off its key Web businesses, as the search company apparently works to find a new identity in the marketplace. The patent auction, expected to bring in as much as $1 billion for the company, has been […]

Sluggish global smartphone sales will continue through 2016 as the annual double-digit sales increases of the past few years disappear and make way for single-digit increases. That’s the conclusion of the latest research from Gartner, which predicts worldwide smartphone sales growth of only 7 percent, or about 1.5 billion handsets, through the end of the […]

From Smartphones to a Robot, Asus Shows Off a Variety of New Products At the Computex 2016 trade show, Asus had something for everyone, including a trio of new flagship smartphones, 2-in-1s, laptops and even a home robot. The ZenFone 3 Deluxe Smartphone The ZenFone 3 Deluxe features an aluminum alloy unibody, a 5.7-inch Full […]

Lenovo is stepping up its game in the world of virtual reality products by signing a deal to use advanced vision processing technology from Movidius in its next-generation VR gear. Under a partnership that was announced June 7, Lenovo will gain access to Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) hardware and its custom computer […]