Stories by Usman Qureshi

Opera Software announced that it will make a transition to the WebKit engine during 2013 for most of its upcoming versions of browsers, as it hit the 300 million monthly users milestone. Today, the company has laid off approximately 90 of its employees, downsizing its workforce by almost 10%, according to a Norwegian publication Digi.no (via TNW). It must...

Flurry Analytics, that reliably measures activity across more than 90% of the world’s smart devices, has revealed in its latest report that China has knocked off U.S. to become the world’s top country for active Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. In its previous report, Flurry said that China has the fastest growing smart device market...

Developer of popular jailbreak tweak Auxo, @Sentry_NC has uploaded a new video on YouTube, showing off yet another app switcher concept. Looking at the video, you can tell that it provides most of the same functionality as Auxo but does it in a little more streamlined manner. The concept lets users swipe from the bottom of the page...

According to a report by The Telegraph, models on the catwalks of London and New York Fashion Week are now surrounded not just by fancy magazines but also by Apple's beloved gadgets. The iPad in particular, the fashionistas say, has changed the way people consume fashion and has become a driving force that brings global audience closest to the...

Investment research firm Piper Jaffray's analyst Gene Munster has told his clients today that Apple is likely to host a media event by the end of April, which could see the introduction of redesigned iPads, AppleInsider is reporting. He believes that Apple's timeline of product launch events over the past two years suggests that a Spring event will introduce a...

Last year, Adam Lashinsky made a claim in his book 'Inside Apple' that new Apple hires are sometimes placed on "fake" projects during a probationary period, and are only handed real projects once the company can trust them. To find out if this was true, Ars Technica asked around several Apple employees and found out that none of them ever heard...

Apple is reportedly working on pushing the iOS 6.1.2 update as early as next week, which will address both Microsoft Exchange bug as well as the passcode vulnerability issues, according to the German blog iFun. While Apple has already stated that both issues will be fixed in the next iOS update, the source claims that the software update may...

Apple's former SVP of retail John Browett who was released by the Cupertino company last year in October, has taken the position of chief executive at Monsoon Accessorize, a design-led retailer based in London operating two international retail clothing chains, Monsoon and Accessorize. According to The Telegraph, his new post will put him in charge of more than 1,000 stores...

While Apple is now fighting the e-book price fixing lawsuit alone as all other publishers have already settled with the U.S. Department of Justice, the company is heading for a high-stakes trial that could significantly increase its liability in the litigation, reports Reuters. The trial is set to take place on June 3rd where Apple will...

Opera Software has today announced 300 million monthly across all its browser products on phones, tablets, TVs and computers. According to the press release, the company will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine during 2013 for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers. Opera has said that the first look...

Gadget repair site iFixit has just cracked open the new Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet, and have ranked it even less repairable than Apple's iPad 4, with a repairability score of just 1 out of a possible 10 (via TechCrunch). iFixit gave the iPad 4 a repairability score of 2 while the Microsoft Surface RT tablet had received...

Apple has lost the "iPhone" trademark in Brazil, thanks to a local company named Gradiente Eletronica, who registered the name back in 2000 i.e seven years before Apple, reports BBC. A couple of months back, Gradiente also launched an Android-powered phone named "iPhone" in the country. While an Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the ruling, the...