Stories by Usman Qureshi

Summly, a service recently acquired by Yahoo! that allows users to browse news fast, easily and beautifully by viewing concise summaries of online content, has now been integrated into the updated Yahoo! iOS app. With the latest mobile app update, Yahoo! promises to use Summly’s natural-language algorithms and machine learning to deliver quick story summaries. "We’re...

Apple's quarterly profit, which is expected to fall for the first time in ten years, is likely hurt by slower growth in iPhone sales as well as newer products having lower profit margins, according to Bloomberg. The report notes that 14 analysts have reduced their estimates for Apple's stock (AAPL) in the last one month, which has put...

Headed to the Shanghai Motor Show, Volkswagen iBeetle is set to become the car in the world to have a genuine integrative interface for the iPhone that was coordinated with Apple, autoblog is reporting. The iPhone will interface with the Beetle and Beetle Convertible via a specially developed app and a docking station. According to the press release, Volkswagen offers two...

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs, has said that Apple’s current share price may be “disappointing” but he's confident that the Cupertino giant will come out with products which would “surprise and shock us all” and the company's stock price will eventually bounce back. Having previously broken the $700 barrier, Apple stock (AAPL) dipped below the $400 mark a couple...

A knockoff App Store accessible at 7659.com is reportedly providing pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users for free. According to Venture Beat, the site is only available within China unless you spoof your location via a proxy server and offers a wide selection of new games and apps including Final Fantasy V, Badlands and much more. The...

Taiwanese publication DigiTimes has published a new report that Apple has recently stopped placing component orders for its Mac products and that related upstream suppliers so far have not yet received any word about when Apple will resume its orders. According to the publication's anonymous sources, the suppliers who were expecting to have their Mac inventories consumed during...

Facebook for iOS has recently been updated to version 6.0 with a bunch of brand new features, including a new way to chat anywhere in the app with ‘Chat Heads’. Unlike Android, where Chat Heads stay on one side of your screen while you browse the web or type an email, Chat Heads for iOS are only limited...

According to a new report by security software firm Symantec, Google’s Android platform remains the main target for mobile malware writers, despite iOS technically having more vulnerabilities (via Tech Crunch). The report says that the difference in threat level between the two mobile operating systems is the two completely different mobile ecosystem approaches i.e "Apple’s walled garden vs Android’s...

Yesterday, we reported that Facebook is currently in talks with Apple to bring ‘Facebook Home’ to the iPhone and today, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has spoken to the Wall Street Journal in London, revealing that the company will indeed bring some of the Facebook Home features to iOS. Those who aren't aware, Facebook Home is a newly released...

CEO of Waze Noam Bardin recently took the stage at D:Dive Into Mobile conference, where he stated that the next five years will be about 'fighting for time with users, pointing to Facebook Home as the "de facto example of that" (via Engadget). He also confessed that he sees Waze as Google's "only real competition" in major markets. Company CEO added...

The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism. With the New York Times recently winning another Pulitzer, CNN Money reporter Philip Elmer-DeWitt highlights how the publication won the journalism's top prize for 'picking on Apple'. The reporter had predicted last year that the paper was going for a Pulitzer when it sent a team...

Despite AirPlay being the most popular screen-sharing technology, not many iOS users seem to be taking advantage of this screen mirroring feature on their devices, according to a new study from the NPD Group (via AppleInsider). The study, which looked at 2,600 U.S. smartphone and tablet owners during the first quarter of 2013, reveals that only 7% of users...