Apple might soon open the doors to its first retail outlets in India. In its quest to set up shop in the world’s third biggest smartphone market, Apple made a presentation on April 19 to a committee led by India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary Ramesh Abhishek, the Times of India reported …

Apple’s new health app array could keep the doctor away. The technology titan on Thursday released the first set of CareKit apps, all of which are designed to help people manage medical conditions. The four free apps include Informed Data Systems’ OneDrop, built to help people with diabetes manage their disease, and Iodine’s Start, which helps people on antidepressants understand …

Tablets as a whole have lost much of their appeal, but the ones that come with detachable keyboards are catching on with consumers. For the first quarter of 2016, overall worldwide tablet shipments fell to 39.6 million, a 14.7 percent drop from the same period a year ago, according to preliminary data released Thursday by IDC. The research firm pinned …

The smartwatch market has grown at a healthy clip during the past year, but Apple may be seeing its dominance fade. Smartwatch makers shipped 4.2 million watches in the first quarter of 2016, up 223 percent from 1.3 million units in the year-ago period, according to figures released Wednesday by market researcher Strategy Analytics. Apple, which is credited with jump-starting …

When people think of wine, they might imagine California’s Napa Valley or Italy’s farmland, but almost certainly not eBay’s website. The giant marketplace, which includes 900 million listings of various items at any given time, wants to shift that vision. The company is seeking to become an online destination for your next purchase of pinot noir or chardonnay, along with …

The iPhone SE is proving more popular than Apple expected, creating a logjam for consumers trying to snag one. In Tuesday’s conference call to discuss its fiscal second-quarter results, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that demand for the new 4-inch-screened phone has been strong and is exceeding supply. “We’re working hard to get the iPhone SE into the hands of …

At Samsung’s Developer Conference in San Francisco Wednesday, the Korean company announced that its Gear 360 camera will go on sale April 29 in South Korea and Singapore, with a global rollout to follow sometime thereafter. Related stories Everything Samsung just announced at its Developer Conference Samsung Gear 360 is a ‘VR’ camera that will cover your life from any …

Photo-printing service SnapBox specializes in making pro lab-caliber products accessible to consumers. It’s grown its offerings since its start in 2012 to include everything from fine art prints to pillows at affordable prices, and now it’s adding photo books to the list. But they’re not just your run-of-the-mill books. They use a special bookbinding technique so that when you open …

It’s more than four minutes of raw distress. But that’s exactly the point of “#MoreThanMean,” a video that squarely hits home at the harassment many women endure online. In the viral video produced this week by sports podcast Just Not Sports, several men read vicious comments that sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro actually received on Twitter, Facebook and …

Now playing: Watch this: 3 ways your Nextbit Robin is about to get better 1:21 Nextbit, the scrappy phone company that launched on Kickstarter with its cloud-based Robin device, announced that its marquee handset is getting its first notable software update since its February release. The 5.2-inch phone will run Google Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, which includes new emojis, security updates, …

Twitter’s shares are tanking today, as the social network continues to struggle at bringing in new users and keeping up its revenue growth. We debate whether Twitter’s growth problems aren’t really a problem at all and if it’s (gasp) OK for some tech companies to pursue stability instead of constant expansion. Nah, that would be crazy, right? The 3:59 gives …

Life admin can be tough, but a new feature Google has introduced to its Calendars hopes to help make workplace scheduling easier. Called “Find a Time”, it requires you to punch in who you want to have a meeting or get-together with and takes every thing from there. It looks through your schedule and those of the people you want …

Ever forget your debit card but need cash from the ATM? Samsung’s got you covered. If you live in South Korea, that is. Residents of the country will now be able to use Samsung Pay on a Galaxy phone to withdraw cash from an ATM, no debit card needed. For now, that works only with Woori Bank in Korea. Samsung …

In 2015, we were treated to two Google Nexus devices in the LG made 5X and Huawei’s 6P. Rumours are now circulating that 2016 will also see two Nexus smartphones, this time both made by HTC. Evleaks, real name Evan Blass, has a history of leaking accurate information and on Thursday tweeted, “HTC is building a pair of Android N …

Samsung really wants you to make apps tailored for its devices, not just generic Android software. The company this week is making its pitch for why developers should be tweaking their apps to take advantage of features like the S Pen on Samsung’s Note devices or its Gear S2 smartwatch. The biggest reason is simply because Samsung is big in …