India allegedly has a secret technology to decrypt iPhones. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s communications and IT minister, said Friday that a tool for mobile forensics has been developed that can handle smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone, according to the New Indian Express. Prasad didn’t reveal details about how the tool works. Earlier this year, the iPhone …

Apple is reportedly planning a few tweaks to the next iteration of iTunes that will make it easier to get around. Version 12.4 of Apple’s music player, store and syncing software will add a new sidebar on the left to provide access to specific items, such as songs, albums, artists and genres, MacRumors said, citing an unidentified source. You’d be …

Apple may have popularized podcasts, but producers of the radio-style digital shows say the company isn’t doing enough to support the format. Last month, Apple met with seven top podcast professionals who aired their grievances about how they’re being treated, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Podcasters complain that they have to deal with a single Apple employee and …

A software patch from Microsoft isn’t playing ball with certain computers running Windows 7. The details are technical, but herein lies the tale. Once upon a time (well, in March), Microsoft rolled out a patch for PCs running its Windows 7 operating system. The patch, however, was incompatible with PCs outfitted with Asus motherboards, causing those PCs to crash under …

Apple Music will reportedly go through a design overhaul to make the app more appealing and less confusing. Launched almost a year ago, Apple Music has earned a thumbs-up from some users for its content. But the service has also been dinged for what critics say is a cluttered and befuddling interface. To address that problem, Apple is expected to …

Sorry Apple, Fitbit remains the champ in the world of wearables. About 12 percent of US consumers owned either a fitness band or a smartwatch as of March, according to a survey released Wednesday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Among those consumers, Fitbit claims the largest chunk of the market, towering over Apple. “Fitbit established itself as an early market leader, …

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is slowly but surely sticking on more devices. Marshmallow is now nestled on 7.5 percent of all Android devices, according to the latest stats served up on Google’s Android Developer Dashboard, which counted all the devices that visited the Google Play Store during the seven-day period ending May 2. That number is up from 4.6 percent a …

Hulu will become a full-on cable competitor with plans it announced Wednesday to introduce a live TV service in 2017. The service would offer subscribers the ability to watch both live and on-demand programs,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins said at the company’s annual Upfront Presentation on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Viewers will be able to catch “live …

Fitbit wearables lack the features found in smartwatches such as the Apple Watch. But that’s not a bad thing, according to Fitbit CEO James Park. The Fitbit activity and fitness trackers are single-mode devices. The Apple Watch performs a multitude of tasks — time keeping, health tracking, iPhone assisting and computing — and therein lies the problem, Park said. “We …

Apple’s bid to sell used iPhones in India has been given the thumbs-down. The company had been seeking permission to import and sell refurbished iPhones in the country. But the Indian government rejected the application, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing an anonymous telecommunications ministry official. Apple ran into the same roadblock last year when a similar request was turned down …