Consumer electronics

Wall Street researchers KeyBanc Capital Markets and Bernstein have lowered their ratings for Apple shares due to slowing iPhone sales. This week, the firm reported weaker than expected iPhone sales for December.

Apple is cooperating with U.S. government inquiries into its secret slowdown of older iPhones, further complicating its efforts to move past an issue that irked customers whose devices bogged down.

Two large shareholders urged Apple to study whether iPhones are proving addictive for children and that intensive use of the smartphones may be bad for their mental health.

Apple Inc is designing its own main power management chips for use in iPhones as early as in 2018, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday citing sources, writes Reuters. 

Apple's move would reduce its dependence on Dialog Semiconductor Plc, that makes power-management chips for smartphone makers.

Hundreds of people have queued at night in front of a GSM store in Istanbul to buy the newly-released iPhone X.

When Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, it changed the way people listen to music forever. Thanks to the iconic portable cassette player and many copycat devices, people were now able to listen to music on the move, and day-to-day activities such as commuting to work suddenly became a lot less boring.

Apple’s flagship iPhone X hit stores in Asia on Nov. 3, as the world’s most valuable company predicted bumper sales despite the handset’s eye-watering price tag and celebrated a surge in profits.

Japanese electronics giant Sony is marking the year of the dog by bringing back to life its robot canine, packed with artificial intelligence and internet capability.

Honolulu authorities on the Hawaiian island will start fining people from tomorrow, the reason is crossing the road without checking because they look at their smartphones, according to France press release.

A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said March 15, as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight.

The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on Feb. 19 when there was a loud explosion.