Stories by Usman Qureshi

Canadian jailbreak hero @iH8sn0w has just updated his Windows exclusive jailbreak tool sn0wbreeze to support iOS 6.0.x/6.1 untethered jailbreak, while preserving the baseband update by creating custom firmwares. (more…)

A couple of months back, we reviewed three of the best iPhone 5 cases from SwitchEasy and loved every one of them. Today, we'll be looking at three iPad mini cases from the same company — CoverBuddy™, Pelle™ and CARA™, each having a unique set of features and brilliant aesthetics. SwitchEasy CoverBuddy™ For iPad Mini As the name implies, CoverBuddy™...

Nolan Bushnell, the American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the video game company Atari, spoke in front of an admiring audience at Campus Party Brasil, in which he talked about his former employee Steve Jobs, the late CEO and co-founder of Apple (via TNW). He also talked about his efforts in shaping the future of learning with his new game-based...

The much awaited iOS 6.x jailbreak tool evasi0n was finally released earlier today for OS X, Windows and Linux platforms, allowing untethered jailbreak on iOS 6.0, iOS 6.0.1, iOS 6.0.2, and iOS 6.1 for all iOS devices including the iPhone 5, iPad mini and the New iPad. However, owners of iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G who...

Hon Hai Precision Ltd. a.k.a Foxconn, the largest manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPads with more than 1 million employees at its huge factory complexes in China, has agreed to allow its workers to elect union representatives for the first time ever, Reuters reports. The company will hold elections for a chairman and 20 members of its...

Evad3rs, the new jailbreak team comprising of @MuscleNerd @planetbeing @pimskeks and @pod2g, have been working on an untethered iOS 6 / 6.1 jailbreak solution for all current iOS devices, and have also announced the name of their upcoming jailbreak tool as "Evasi0n". According to Evasi0n.com, the project's development status has now reached 75% with a possible release...

Abdullah Gül, the president of Turkey, has today met with Apple executives including vice president for education John Couch, to discuss several issues, including a $4.5 billion program to provide as many as 15 million tablets to Turkish schools for children, reports Turkish blog Elma Dergisi (via MacRumors).  (Turkish president Abdullah Gül at far left, Apple VP John...

Popular social networking service Path, who allegedly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA) by collecting kids' personal information without their parents’ consent, has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreeing to pay a fine of $800,000 (via GigaOM). The company has also agreed to purge over 3,000 accounts from the network. FTC has settled...

While speaking to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell called Apple the biggest threat to the success of Steam Box, Valve’s upcoming hardware capable of streaming games to multiple displays through local networks (via Polygon). Newell said that Apple "rolls the console guys really easily". The question is, can Valve make...

Taiwanese publication DigiTimes is claiming that according to industry sources, next generation full-sized iPad a.k.a the iPad 5, will use the same thin-film type touch screen structure as found in the iPad mini in order to make the device thinner. The iPad mini features the GF2 DITO display technology which allows the screen to be much thinner and...

Previously available for $1.99 as a universal binary for iPhone and iPad, National Geographic's award winning World Atlas app has just gone free in the App Store. It's not yet clear whether the price drop is permanent or temporary, so better get downloading right away (via AppShopper). The app has also been recently updated for 2013 with a new...

An Apple patent filing published today by the US Patent & Trademark Office indicates that the company is developing a new depth perception system which, when integrated into an iPad, would be able to project a laser based keyboard onto a table, reports PatentlyApple.   According to the filing, the patent relates to a system for determining...