Apple on Monday announced CareKit, an open source framework that will help developers build apps that aid in improving health and wellness of users. These will be different from the current crop of health and fitness apps that are available in the App Store. CareKit apps will be designed to help patients better understand and …

People love Apple’s iPhone, but not its hefty price tag. Looking to address that issue, Apple on Monday unveiled the iPhone SE, a smaller, cheaper smartphone that could endear the iPhone to even more folks. “This is the most powerful 4-inch phone ever,” Greg Joswiak, vice president for product marketing, told a crowd at the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters. He …

Apple’s new strategy for grabbing business customers: go small. That doesn’t seem like the obvious choice when dealing with giant corporations and other groups who might want a tablet focused on productivity. But Apple has shrunk its hulking 12.9-inch iPad Pro, released in November, to 9.7 inches to appeal to more people. The device will start at $600 for a …

Apple is getting bigger by going smaller. The tech behemoth unveiled its iPhone SE, a new 4-inch version of its popular phone line, during an event Monday at its corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California. The reason for the break from its big-screen iPhone 6 and 6S: Apple sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones last year. “Some people simply love smaller phones,” …

Apple’s iPhone SE may be new on the inside, but aside from some minor design and cosmetic differences it has the same chassis as Apple iPhone 5/5S. And that means all those “old” iPhone 5/5S cases will fit the new iPhone SE, an Apple rep and several case manufacturers have confirmed. Not only does this mean iPhone SE owners will …

Apple just announced the smaller, budget-friendly iPhone SE. Switching gears from its larger phones, Apple’s going back to the popular 4-inch size with the new iPhone. Just because it’s smaller doesn’t mean it’s weaker. The iPhone SE has the same 64-bit A9 chip and M9 motion co-processor as the iPhone 6S. It’s also got a 12-megapixel camera, TouchID and Apple …

You can now download iOS 9.3 on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system will run on any iDevice from 2011 or later. That means if you have an iPhone 4S or later, an iPad 2 or later, or a fifth- or sixth-generation iPod Touch, you are good to go. One new feature …

Night owls, you can stop counting sheep. Apple’s latest mobile software update, available Monday, makes reading on your iPad or iPhone easier on your eyes. Enlarge Image One of the biggest new features of Apple’s iOS 9.3 is a feature called Night Shift, which alters the tone on the display to make sure your gadget doesn’t keep you up at …

The Apple Watch wasn’t a focal point during a press event on Monday at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. The company instead shone the spotlight on two new products: a smaller 4-inch iPhone called the SE and a 9.7-inch version of its iPad Pro tablet. Apple CEO Tim Cook spent only a minute discussing the company’s first smartwatch, which was released last …

As expected, Apple unveiled smaller versions of its iPhone and iPad Pro at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California, March 21. Not surprisingly, CEO Tim Cook also addressed Apple’s fight with the feds over the encryption of a phone owned by a terrorist involved in last year’s San Bernardino shootings. We’ve rounded up the top videos from today’s event below. Our …

You’re probably seeing a lot of “size matters” headlines (and jokes) flash across the Web today. That’s because Apple pulled a 180 and, for the first time, introduced a new, smaller phone: the 4-inch, $399 iPhone SE. It also unveiled the smaller iPad Pro, essentially taking the jumbo iPad Pro and shrinking it to normal size. Both go on sale …

LG’s Urbane LTE second edition smartwatch is back, riding on the coattails of the company’s new flagship smartphone. AT&T customers can soon get their hands on a package of high-end LG goodies, with the operator making the G5 smartphone and Urbane Second Edition smartwatch available for preorder from Monday. Both the smartwatch, touted as first Android Wear watch with LTE …

Windows Spotlight is a new feature in Windows 10 that affects your lock screen — it’s basically Bing’s homepage images, but on your lock screen. The photos cycle periodically, so it’s sort of like a curated slideshow of beautiful, high-resolution images on your lock screen. Oh, and Windows also lets you provide feedback about each image for a more personalized …

Twitter is turning 10 on Monday. The social network has become immensely popular on a very simple theory: Say what you want in 140 characters or fewer. (That sentence is 123 characters, including spaces.) Though that may not sound like a lot of room to maneuver, Twitter’s users have figured out how to craft pithy, playful and poignant messages that …

It’s been nearly one full year since I reviewed Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. That slim, light system was not only Apple’s only completely new laptop design since the 2012 MacBook Pro, but also among its most controversial. The knocks against this system — an odd-man-out, not part of either the Air or Pro MacBook lines — were numerous. Its screen was …