At the product launch event held by Apple at its Cupertino, California, headquarters on March 21, the key focus of the company was on two main products --- a smaller 4-inch iPhone dubbed 'iPhone SE;' and a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablet. However, the company also made a few announcements related to its Apple Watch smartwatch.

In a report published on Thursday, The New York Times has said that quite a few high-level executives and software engineers at Apple would not comply with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s requests to weaken the existing iOS encryption, even if such a resistance on their part costs them their jobs at the bigwig tech company.

In a Thursday announcement, tech giant Apple has disclosed that its next product launch event will be held on March 21, 2016, at the small auditorium at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Every time a new generation of smartphones is released or browser is updated, a war begins between engineers and hackers, with former wanting to secure the phone and latter trying to breach the security.

In its ongoing iPhone encryption scuffle with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), tech giant Apple has garnered the support of three advocacy groups --- the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and digital rights groups Access Now and Wickr Foundation.

According to the latest smartwatch-related statistics released by retail data firm Strategy Analytics, tech giant Apple dominated the smartwatch arena -- with its Apple Watch smartwatch -- in the 2015 fourth quarter; followed by Samsung.

According to reports, US tech biggie Apple's mobile payment system 'Apple Pay' is scheduled for launch in mainland China this week.

The reported move will mark the debut of the Apple Pay mobile payment system in the Asian electronic-payment market. The Apple Pay system was launched by Apple in the US in 2014; and has subsequently been expanded to the UK, Canada, and Australia.

On Tuesday, Sonos announced via a blog post that Apple Music streaming music service will be officially become available on Sonos wireless speakers with effect from Wednesday, February 10, 2016.