Stories by Usman Qureshi

An 8 year old schoolboy left his family with a £1,000 credit card bill after buying virtual doughnuts in a game on his grandfather’s iPad, reports The Telegraph. He made more than 100 purchases on iTunes for between £1.50 and £75, from the middle of January and the beginning of this month. Apple has however refunded the...

Reuters is reporting that China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, is planning to spend $6.7 billion to develop 4G technology this year, which could significantly raise demand for Apple's flagship smartphone as the company plans to support TD-LTE 4G technology with its next iPhone upgrade later this year. China Mobile currently has more than twice as many subscribers...

Rovio Entertainment, makers of the blockbuster Angry Birds franchise, have released their new game The Croods, which is based on DreamWorks Animation's prehistoric animated comedy of the same name. Available for iOS and Android, the game can be downloaded for free from iTunes and Google Play stores. With "The Croods" you get to meet the...

A company named Breathometer has introduced the world's first smartphone breathalyzer, that works with a dedicated mobile app and transforms any iPhone or Android phone into a breathalyser. The device, that will plug into a smartphone headphone jack, will be available this summer and consumers can start pre-ordering today for only $20. According to the company's survey regarding drinking...

In response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions, seven Apple Stores in France have been banned by a court in Paris from forcing employees to work late at night, according to a report published by The Verge. The report also claims that the court has ordered Apple to pay €10,000 in damages to the unions...

Rovio has issued updates to its Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons games, with brand new levels, power-ups and much more. The update takes the Angry Birds Rio to version 1.6, with 36 new levels and an all-new episode, the marmoset-filled Market Mayhem. Additionally, players can collect all the hidden fruit to unlock a new...

Developed by InfoMotion Sports Technologies, 94Fifty are smart, motion sensing basketballs that gives you advance training whenever you want it. Launched on Kickstarter last week, the project has already raised $33,000 of its $100,000 goal with 26 days more to go. These "freakishly smart" basketballs have the size and weight of a regular basketball, but feature an...

While we've already seen plenty of "iWatch" concepts in the past few months, this new concept by Martin Hajek seems to be the most beautiful of them all, though it may not necessarily be as functional as we'd like it to be, CultOfMac reports.  Martin, who works for MacUser magazine, has created this concept by adopting a...

International Data Corporation (IDC) has increased its 2013 forecast for the worldwide tablet market to 190.9 million, following a surge in availability of smaller, lower-priced devices in the tablet market. Previously, the company had forecasted 172.4 million units. Another forecast by the Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker estimates tablet shipments to reach 350 million by the end of 2017. According...

It seems that Samsung is not going to be the only company offering an eye-tracking feature in its Galaxy smartphones, as a new Israeli start-up company called uMoove has been developing this technology for the past three years and is now saying it will offer its eye- and head-tracking technology to anyone, including Apple and other device makers,...

Automatic, a combination app and hardware unit launching this May for $69.95, is set to make your car feel "a little smarter" by displaying everything from its fuel economy to its crash response, right on your iPhone. As The Verge goes hands on with the upcoming device, it appears the device connects to a car's OBD-II Data...

Looks like Apple is now under high selling pressure with more reports emerging that supplier orders have been cut, as indicated by several analysts' reports followed by continued drop in Apple's share price (AAPL) today, Fortune is reporting. Topeka's Brian White, who monitors these things on a monthly basis, believes that February's report was the worst on...