The Apple Store app may be in line for a revamp that will steer you to products it thinks you’ll buy. The app, which allows you to purchase Apple products through your iPhone and other mobile iOS devices, will likely add the new feature in the next two weeks, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing “people familiar” …

Now playing: Watch this: New features coming to Windows 10 1:34 Enlarge Image You can freely upgrade to Windows 10 beyond the July 29 deadline if you follow certain steps. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET The time is nigh. Friday is the last day you can score Windows 10 for free. Or is it? What if you don’t want to upgrade …

Thanks to a new teaser ad posted by Samsung Mobile Korea, people curious about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone get a chance to play Sherlock Holmes. The fast-moving clip (embedded below) offers clues to features that the new phone will apparently offer. Your job is to try to decipher them. We’ll play Watson and lend a hand. Posted to YouTube …

Consumers eyeing the iPhone 7 may be able to preorder it starting Friday, September 9. No, Apple hasn’t announced anything. Rather, the purported preorder date was leaked in a tweet Wednesday night from generally reliable leaker Evan Blass, aka @evleaks. Blass’ tweet said simply: “Confirmed: Pre-orders start on the 9th. You can extrapolate the launch event date from there.” Blass …

As smartphone shipments sputter and stall, an upstart is shooting forward from the back of the pack. China’s Oppo saw shipments of its phones more than double — the precise gain: 137 percent — in the second quarter of 2016, compared with the same period a year earlier. That was good enough to put Oppo into fourth place, according to …

Apple Pay is the leader in contactless payments in the US, according to CEO Tim Cook. Cook touted the performance of the Apple Pay service on Tuesday during a conference call to discuss the company’s financial results last quarter. Though Apple continues to grapple with lower iPhone and iPad sales, Apple Pay is one area that’s growing, both in the …

“Hillary 2016” isn’t just a campaign slogan. It’s also a new iOS app designed for people who want to see Hillary Clinton as the next president. Launched on Sunday for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, the app is served up by the Hillary for America campaign. Hillary 2016 tests your knowledge about the pressing issues, offers daily challenges to …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 launch could be coming early this year 1:13 Apple will launch the iPhone 7 on September 16, according to known and generally reliable leaker Evan Blass, aka @evleaks. Blass offered his prognostication via a tweet on Saturday, saying the new iPhone will launch the week of September 12 and then specifying September 16 as …

Launched a week ago, Apple’s iOS 9.3.3 can already be jailbroken, according to a new report. Known as PPHelper, the jailbreak tool was developed and revealed by Chinese hacking group Pangu Team, blog site Redmond Pie said Sunday. The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9.3.3, added several security improvements but no significant new features. Jailbreaking plays like …

Apple may be prepping the next edition of its iPad Pro, at least based on a couple of leaked photos. Blog site AppleInsider received two photos reportedly from an anonymous source working at an Apple Chinese supplier of the new iPad Pro, which is expected to go into production late September. The photos show the tablet’s settings screen in Chinese. …