Stories by Usman Qureshi
Intel To Reportedly Launch A Set-Top Box & Cable Service At CES 2013
According to a report published by TechCrunch, Intel is preparing to launch a set-top box and an accompanying subscription TV service at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 7. The source claims that the company also has a plan to secure the necessary licensing agreements to release such a product. Intel will reportedly launch the service on a...
Angry Birds And YouTube Were The Most Downloaded Apps Of 2012 [Reuters]
While Facebook and Instagram apps continued their run of being among the most downloaded apps of the year, YouTube and Angry Birds were the top free and paid apps respectively at Apple's App Store in 2012, reports Reuters. A lot of new games released in 2012 quickly joined the ranks of the top downloaded and revenue grossing...
Hartmut Esslinger’s Early Apple Computer And Tablet Designs Revealed
Back in 1990's, Frog Design, a company founded by German designer Hartmut Esslinger, partnered with Apple to design many of its products, including the 'Snow White' design language that was introduced with the Apple IIc. Today, Designboom has published some photographs from Hartmut's new book Design Forward, revealing prototype designs of Apple computers and tablets from that era (via The...
Apple Gets Sued For $165,000 In China For iBookstore Piracy
Apple has been hit by a Beijing court today for allegedly selling unlicensed copies of books written by local writers on its iBookstore, reports The Wall Street Journal. According to state media, the Chinese court has ordered the Cupertino giant to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to the writers. The lawyers representing the writers had argued that software available from...
Foxconn Partners With Flexium To Meet iPhone 5 / iPad Mini Demand
Hon Hai Precision a.k.a Foxconn, the Taiwan based supplier of Apple's iOS devices, has reportedly partnered with circuit board supplier Flexium Interconnect, in order to ramp up the production of iPhone 5 and iPad Mini and meet the growing market demand of these newer iOS devices (via PatentlyApple). A publication today by Taiwan's United Daily News claims that Hon Hai...
Apple Continues To Dominate The Tablet Market In U.S. & Canada With 87% Share
Chitika Insights has just published the numbers for the month of December, confirming Apple's continued dominance in tablet market with 87% web traffic share in U.S. and Canada. Chitika has examined a sample of tens of millions of tablet impressions from its Ad network, drawn during December 8th to December 14th 2012 in North America. Despite the fact...
Working Conditions Improve Significantly At Foxconn’s Apple Factories
Throughout the year, Foxconn has been working hard to improve the working conditions for its employees at Apple manufacturing facilities, including salary raises and overtime hour cuts. Now, a new report by the New York Times has confirmed that "the things are getting better", and Taiwanese manufacturer has indeed made significant improvements in overall working conditions at its...
Tim Cook’s Pay Package Drops By 99% From 2011
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who took over the company as a successor to the late Steve Jobs who passed away in October 2011, has seen a 99% drop in his pay package after his first full year as CEO of the company, reports Reuters. According to a recent federal filing by Apple, Tim Cook was awarded total compensation...
Is Apple Working With Intel On A Bluetooth Smart Watch For 2013 Launch?
According to a report by Chinese tech blog TGbus.com, Apple and Intel are working together on a Bluetooth-equipped smart watch that can connect to iOS devices. The report also claims that so called "Apple Smart Watch" could find its way to the market as early as first half of 2013 (via TNW). The report goes on to...
Apple Adopts HTTPS For iTunes To Bypass The Great Firewall Of China
In order to bypass the Great Firewall, a system that blocks content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through in China, Apple has adopted HTTPS for searches and downloads on the version of iTunes used in China, reports The Register. Apple's move has come at a time when Chinese government is preparing to step up regulation of...
Potentially Malicious JavaScript Bug Discovered In iOS 6
A new JavaScript bug that can potentially cause some major security and privacy implications, has been discovered in iOS 6 that re-enables JavaScript in mobile Safari without asking the user, AppleInsider is reporting. It appears that a new "Smart App Banner" feature in iOS 6, this allows developers to promote App Store software within Safari, is responsible. The...
Samsung Sues Apple Again, This Time Over iOS Notifications
BrightWare reports through the Korean online news site iNews24 that Samsung has today brought a lawsuit against Apple in a court in South Korea over its 'Notification Center' patent infringement (via Patently Apple). No more details have been made available. A lot of Android users have blamed Apple for copying their notification system, which was first introduced by Google in...
