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Apple chief executive and Alabama native Tim Cook speaks during an Alabama Academy of Honor ceremony at the state Capitol, Oct. 27, 2014, in Montgomery, Ala. Brynn Anderson/AP Photo From admonishing his home state's record on gay rights to revealing new details about the Apple Watch, it's fair to say Tim Cook has had a busy 24 hours. The Apple CEO was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor on Monday, and he used the opportunity to encourage lawmakers in the state to move toward equality for all people. Alabama is "still too slow on equality for the LGBT community. Under the law, citizens of Alabama can still be fired based on their sexual orientation," Cook said, according to the Associated Press. "We can't change the past, but we can learn from it and we can create a different future." In the evening, Cook attended the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in Laguna Beach, California, where he revealed more details about Apple...

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Apple is set to cap a busy few weeks with another product event on Thursday, which is expected to involve new iPads and iMacs. Hot on the heels of last month’s glitzy Apple watch and iPhone launch , as well as the recent iOS 8 update problems, the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm is likely to brandish new tablets during the event at its corporate headquarters. “I think that we will see new iPads, but I don’t expect them to be earth-shatteringly different [to current iPads],” Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, told FoxNews.com. “TouchID could be an obvious feature and we might see a resolution increase in the display – they introduced a Retina HD display in the new iPhones, so it’s possible that we could see that on the new iPads as well.” With Retina display technology, the current iPad and iPad Air offer 2048-by-1536 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi), while the highest resolution iPad Mini is 2048-by-1536 at 326 ppi with...

South Korean phonemaker Samsung, which has been losing market share to rivals in India, is gearing up to launch two premium devices — the Galaxy Alpha and Galaxy Note 4 — to take on the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The company has started talking to distributors and retailers to launch these devices in time for Diwali, ahead of the launch of the Apple devices in October. Unlike previous Samsung phones that were clad in a plastic body, these will be the first Samsung phones with an external metal casing, something that iPhones have had for long. Priced a little over Rs 40,000 a piece, the Galaxy Alpha is expected to be cheaper than the new iPhone 6 but will have better features, an offline distributor briefed on Samsung's plans said. The Galaxy Alpha, showcased by Samsung last month, has a partial metallic body, 4.7-inch screen and a top-of-the-line processor. It's the company's bet against iPhone 6 in the premium segment. Samsung also announced the allnew G...