Stories by Usman Qureshi

British architect Norman Foster's architecture firm Foster + Partners is reported to redesign Apple's retail stores worldwide (via Pocket-Lint). For those who aren't aware, the company is known for designing architectural marvels like the World Trade Center and jaw-dropping McLaren Technology Centre, among others. Apple, who managed to trademark its retail outlet design in January this year, traditionally works with architecture firm 8...

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has reached a licensing agreement worth 1 billion yen i.e $10 million U.S. with a Japanese firm that owns patents originally created by Palm and PalmSource, the developers of Palm OS PDA operating system. Other patents included in the deal were created by Bell Communications Research and Geoworks. PalmSource, the company who created...

Hon Hai Precision a.k.a Foxconn has posted a 19% decrease in its first quarter sales as compared to last year, due to relatively low market demand for iPhone, reports Reuters. Laster year, Foxconn saw its sales topping the T$1 trillion mark during the first quarter while this year, the company's sales totaled only T$808.97 billion. KGI...

Popular app discovery application AppGratis was removed from the App Store by Apple yesterday, over violation of at least two App Store Review Guideline clauses. Today, company CEO Simon Dawlat has shared his side of the story in a lengthy blog post, saying that even though AppGratis iOS apps are currently unavailable, its app recommendation service "is very...

A few days back, we shared F. Bianco's iOS 7 concept with you, which showed an interesting widget mode for apps, among other tweaks. Today, a new iOS 7 toggles concept by Ran Anvi has hit the web that includes a popover homescreen menu. The video shows that the menu can be accessed from the upper right corner of the device, offering...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a new patent to Apple for "On-device offline purchases using credits", which according to AppleInsider, is an offline purchasing system that would allow iTunes users to buy music, movies and other media when not connected to the internet. The system details purchase of offline credits which would be stored on...

TUAW is reporting that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has deployed iPads in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in order to help mothers stay in touch with their newborns and also interact with hospital staff when they are unable to do so in person. The initiative is a part of a program called BabyTime,...

In order to bring the iOS app in line with its Android counterpart, Google has updated the Google Drive app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to support faster document editing and landscape mode support for iPhone. According to Google, Google Drive now loads faster with quicker editing support. In addition to the usual bug fixes, the...

Spotted by AppleInsider, a new job listing posted by Apple in the city of Melbourne, Florida, seems to indicate that the company may be looking for a software engineer to join its team of fingerprint sensor engineers from AuthenTec, a fingerprint sensor chips making company which Apple acquired last year for $356 million. The listing seeks a candidate who will work...

Apple has suddenly removed AppGratis, a popular app discovery application that promotes paid apps by offering one for free every day, from the App Store without any explanation or comment, as pointed out by AllThingsD. It is however said that Apple pulled the app for violation of one or more of App Store Review Guideline clauses. According to the source,...

According to a report by The Korea Times, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee's recent return from a three-month trip to Japan and Hawaii, could see a change in the company's management due to the ongoing patents war with Apple. The publication notes that Chairman talked of a “sense of crisis” upon his return, sparking rumours about a possible management...

Seattle Police is seeking help in arresting this team of thieves, who grabbed an iPhone on March 18 at Sixth Avenue and Pine Street and was caught in the act by surveillance cameras (via SeattlePi). According to the Police, the lookouts were a young man wearing a black sweatshirt and baseball cap and a man who...