Stories by Usman Qureshi

TmoNews is reporting that T-Mobile will enable LTE support, along with a handful of other features previously not available, on unlocked iPhone 5 handsets through a software update on April 5th. The source, who appears to have gotten its hands on an internal document, notes that T-Mobile will also enable Visual Voicemail, MMS Settings and Network/Device optimisations for iPhone...

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple will start producing its next generation iPhone in the second quarter of 2013. People with knowledge of the device's production plan are also claiming that the next iPhone will sport the same size and shape as the iPhone 5, fuelling speculations that Apple's next smartphone...

Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent, which addresses the ability of graphics on iOS devices to bounce back when the user scrolls to the top or bottom of the page, has been ruled invalid in a “Final Office Action” by the US Patent and Trademark Office, reports FOSS Patents. Apple had used the patent in its lawsuit against Samsung that resulted in...

Phablets i.e small sized tablets with 5.0” - 6.9” screens (e.g Samsung Galaxy Note) are struggling to compete in the smartphone and tablet market, with only 2% share of total user base, according to a report by analytical firm Flurry. The study also notes that medium sized phones like iPhone, i.e between 3.5” - 4.9”...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Examining Attorney Lee-Anne Berns has refused Apple's "iPad mini" trademark application, saying that IP Application Development and Marc Angell have also applied for the "iPad" trademark and therefore there's a "likelihood of confusion between these marks", reports Patently Apple. However, since Apple already owns the "iPad" trademark, it remains unclear why would there...

Apple has posted 12 new job listings over the weekend, all of which relate to Siri, suggesting that the company is getting pretty serious about boosting its speech-recognizing personal assistant's accuracy and performance, as noted by FastCompany. One of the job posts suggests that Siri is going to expand dramatically, because Apple's looking for a "Siri...

Apple CEO Tim Cook's recently released High School photos from the 1975 and 1976 yearbooks from Robertsdale High School, reveal that Apple's top executive was also a top student, as he was voted as "Most Studious" two years running, both as a freshman and as a sophomore (via Reddit). Published by a Reddit user, the photos show Tim Cook...

Conquest Vehicles, a company based just outside of Toronto, specialised in hand-building luxury SUVs for high-profile clients around the world, has built a $629,000 armoured Knight XV, that features integrated iPad controls, a Sony Playstation 3, a 12-speaker Alpine entertainment media system with 2,500 watt power, dual thermal vision cameras, a bar, marble laptop tables...

According to a new report by Droid-Life, Google's upcoming unified chat service will be called “Babel". This new cross-platform service is expected to merge services like Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google+ Messenger, and will be released for Android, iOS, Chrome, G+ and Gmail. The report also claims that the service was previously being referred to as “Babble”, but...

Using Twitter’s short-form video-sharing service Vine, that allows users to attach video clips lasting 6 seconds or less to their tweets, users can now embed their Vine posts on the web as well. Embedded posts are available in two different styles and can be created from a post's page using the embed code, or by using the latest version...

Apple's iCloud service, that lets users access their personal content on all their devices wirelessly and automatically via an Apple ID, has run into complaints from developers related to Core Data database sync issues, according to a report by Apple Insider. The source points out that several app developers have taken their complaints public via blog entries, with some...

Apple Insider is reporting that an Apple patent filing for a "Multi-layered ceramic enclosure" shows the Cupertino company's growing interest in ceramic device enclosures, a material which noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes could be used in the rumored low-cost iPhone. The filing reveals that Apple may be developing a unibody type design, fabricated from layers of ceramic in...