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Updated: Best smartwatch 2015: what's the best wearable tech for you?

Best smartwatch introduction With a glut of new next-gen smartwatches landing on the market, we’ve gone back to the drawing board for our best smartwatches top ten. We’ve spent two days in the TechRadar lab putting the latest and greatest through the same intense processes our phones and tablets go through. This has allowed us to weigh up everything from design and features, to interface and price and everything in

Apple says App Store, Apple Music services facing disruptions

(Reuters) – Apple Inc said it is experiencing some issues with its App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store and some other services. The company did not provide details. “We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available,” Apple said on its services support page. (http://apple.co/YIMuUp) (Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr)

Toshiba CEO quits over accounting scandal

“I see this as the most damaging event for our brand in the company’s 140-year history,” Tanaka told a news conference after making a ritual deep bow of contrition to a flurry of camera shutters and flashes. Muromachi is considered a safe pair of hands to lead Toshiba through its current turmoil before handing the reins to a successor. A total of eight officials resigned on Tuesday and Tanaka said

United Tech cuts outlook on aerospace, elevator pressures

United Technologies Corp , which agreed on Monday to sell its Sikorsky helicopter business, cut its full-year profit outlook on Tuesday as it warned of pressures in its aerospace systems and Otis elevators businesses. United Tech, whose shares fell 4.1 percent after the company also reported second-quarter results, on Monday said it would sell its Sikorsky helicopter unit to Lockheed Martin Inc for $9 billion, after saying in June it

SAP CFO says pipeline looks very healthy

By Harro Ten Wolde and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT/STUTTGART (Reuters) – SAP’s order pipeline for the second half of the year is “very healthy” and will offset a decline in sales from its packaged software products, which will pose no threat to the company’s full-year operating profit target, its finance chief said. Europe’s largest software company on Tuesday posted worse-than-expected sales of its high-margin packaged software business.

Oil guru who called 2014 slump sees a return to $100 crude

Gary Ross, the founder of consultants PIRA Energy Group, said oil markets aren’t nearly as oversupplied as many believe and spare capacity is tight since Saudi Arabia is pumping all the crude it can without new drilling. Such views fail to take into account the impact of $50 oil on output outside North America as producers reduce spending, according to Ross.