A new iPhone diagnostic app has been given the cold shoulder by Apple. Released little more than a week ago, an app dubbed System and Security Info aimed to deliver core details about your iPhone, including your CPU, memory and disk usage along with a list of all running processes. More critically, the app aimed …

The FBI’s latest battle with Apple over iPhone encryption may be over, but the war will rage on, according to the bureau’s chief. FBI Director James Comey told reporters at a briefing Wednesday that he expects more legal actions from the government to gain access to encrypted electronic devices, Reuters reported. Comey pointed to the fight to unlock such devices …

Reports of the coming death of iTunes Music have been greatly exaggerated, at least according to Apple. On Wednesday, a story by Digital Music News claimed that Apple is looking to put the kibosh on music downloads from its iTunes store as soon as two years from now. Sources “with close and active business relationships with Apple” told the site …

Nintendo is aiming to lure more users to its next mobile games by making the titles free to play. Following on the March release of its first mobile app, Miitomo, the company is set to launch its popular Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem for smartphones this fall. The two new games will be free to download, according to Tokyo-based DeNA, …

The Apple Watch won’t grace the wrist of the company’s former chief executive anytime soon. John Sculley, in a chat with financial news site TheStreet, said the timepiece didn’t have enough functionality to convince him to buy one, even though he owns every other Apple product, including the iPhone and iPad Pro. “I think the Apple Watch is beautiful, but …

Microsoft is dumping a touchy Windows 10 option that lets you share your Wi-Fi passwords with contacts. The option is part of a feature called Wi-Fi Sense, aimed at making it easy to share your Wi-Fi network with family, friends, visitors and other people within range. The goal was to eliminate the hassle of manually doling out your Wi-Fi password …

Android’s share of the smartphone market has surged throughout the US, Europe and China. Google’s mobile OS saw its smartphone market share rise in the first quarter in virtually all of the regions tracked by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the research firm said Wednesday. In the US, Android’s smartphone share grew by 7.3 percentage points year over year to 65.5 percent. …

Worried that your iPhone may have been hacked? There’s an app for that. System and Security Info, which debuted over the weekend in Apple’s App Store, provides a host of details about your iPhone. The app shows your CPU, memory and disk usage as well as a list of all running processes. On the security front, it can tell you …

Apple was clobbered by a huge tumble in notebook shipments last quarter. The company’s shipments fell 40 percent in the first quarter of 2016 over the final quarter of 2015, market researcher TrendForce said Tuesday. Apple’s plunge was the largest decline among the top eight notebook vendors worldwide. Overall, the top eight sellers saw notebook shipments drop 19 percent in …

Android devices are under siege by yet another breed of malware. Dubbed Viking Horde, the new malware has waged war by infecting certain apps at the Google Play store, researchers at Check Point said Monday. Affected apps include Viking Jump, Parrot Copter, Memory Booster, Simple 2048 and WiFi Plus. Android phones and tablets on which the infected apps are installed …