Stories by Usman Qureshi

Tony Fadell, the CEO of Nest and a former designer at Apple who led the development of many iPhone iterations, shared the secret to Apple’s strategy of inspiring its designers to develop the most beautiful looking gadgets, while speaking at the Bloomberg Design Conference earlier this week (via GigaOM). He said that Apple creates a culture where...

While Research In Motion is preparing to hold the BlackBerry 10 launch event on January 30, 2013, the company has launched a program called "BlackBerry 10 Ready Program", aimed at persuading its customers to adopt the BlackBerry 10 devices. Bryan Lee, a senior enterprise accounts director at RIM, told Reuters that the company was "very enthused by the engagement and...

Amazon has today pushed an updated MP3 Store which has been specifically optimised for iOS devices, allowing iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse and purchase digital music from Amazon’s 22-million song catalog via mobile Safari. Customers can also access features like personalized recommendations, best-seller lists and Amazon customer ratings using their iOS devices. The Amazon MP3...

An interesting job listing posted by Apple on its website shows that the company is looking for a creative writer skilled in character-driven dialog in order to help the Siri team "evolve Siri as a distinct, recognizable character”, points out 9to5Mac.  According to the listing, the Apple is searching for a writer/editor who can not only help...

In addition to the widely rumoured low-cost iPhone, Apple is reportedly testing an incremental upgrade to the iPhone 5 a.k.a the "iPhone 5S", said Jefferies analyst Peter Misek in a note to investors (via AppleInsider). The analyst added that Apple is expected to debut the iPhone 5S earlier than expected, in June or July, with preliminary device builds beginning...

Following WSJ's claim from yesterday that Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 displays to half due to "weaker than expected demand", Apple's share price (AAPL) has slipped to a low of $487.25 (via CNET). Having hit an all-time high of $705.07 in September last year, Apple's stock has dropped below the $500 mark for the first time in almost a year....

According to a report by The Next Web, Belgian consumer protection organization Test-Aankoop has filed a lawsuit against Apple over its warranty policy, claiming that Apple’s warranty practices don’t comply with local laws and that the Cupertino company isn’t properly informing consumers of their rights. The complaint says that Apple markets its warranties in a manner which doesn’t properly explain...

A design patent for aluminium unibody MacBook's glass trackpad developed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and chief designer Jony Ive has been awarded to Apple today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, reports AppleInsider. The patent is titled as 'Portable Computer' and illustrates the ornamental design for a portable computer. The U.S. Patent No. D674382 is a...

Microsoft’s Surface tablet has been hacked by programmer Steve Troughton-Smith to run an early version of Mac OS. The hack is based on a jailbreak tool released by hacker Netham45 and allows the Mac OS to run inside Windows RT (via VentureBeat). By exploiting a setting in the Windows RT, hackers have released a jailbreak tool that simply...

As awkward as it may sound (or look), "iPotty" by CTA Digital is one of those crazy products to come out of CES 2013, which claims to serve as a toilet training iPad accessory for babies. The iPotty comes with a clip-on cover to transform the potty for a child to use as a seat and a cover to protect...

iOS hacker and jailbreak expert @pod2g has released his first iOS app called podDJ, a djing app for iPad which will be hitting the App Store on January 12 (already available in the New Zealand App Store). The app claims to be the fastest scratching app in the App Store that transforms your iPad into a real mixing engine....

F-Secure Chief Risk Officer Mikko Hyppönen has just tweeted a photo of his Windows Phone 8 smartphone which apparently crashed during boot up showing an error screen that says “Insert Your Windows Installation Disc". The only question is, where? (via The Loop). "Windows Phone failed to boot. Please insert your Windows installation disc...": twitter.com/rkkski/status/…#wontfit —...