Stories by Usman Qureshi

Earlier this month, speculations of Apple planning to switch to TSMC for its custom A-series processors by early 2013 grew stronger but now, Wall Street Journal reports that Taiwan based semiconductor manufacturer may not accept Apple as a client until late 2013. Previously, Apple has attempted to secure exclusive access to TMSC, with proposals of more than $1 billion, but failed....

With the introduction of iOS 6, Apple brought Passbook to its mobile platform, a new feature that allows users to store coupons, boarding passes, tickets, store cards and other forms of mobile payment. Looks like the feature is not only growing rapidly, but is also driving a huge amount of downloads for the developers who integrate it...

An unclassified National Security Agency (NSA) document, intended as a security manual for network administrators in the law enforcement agencies, acquired by Fast Company has revealed how American agencies are using spying capabilities of iPhones and Androids. Some years ago, government employees turned to BlackBerry as a "secure smartphone" but now, times have changed. Majority of government agencies have...

Alongside its Apple Campus 2 project in Cupertino, California, the Cupertino joint has also started work on a new 39-acre campus in Austin, Texas. According to Wired, this will be home to a major portion of the Apple empire in future. The new Austin campus will give 1 million square feet of office to Apple, opening another...

A new study carried out by CrowdFlower, Apple Maps are much more likely to send you in the wrong direction as compared to Google Maps, with approximately 3.4% major error rate in the US, compared to 1.1% for Google Maps and 1.3% for Bing. To find out how Apple Maps stack up against Google's and Bing's...

The return of Google Maps for iOS, that saw over 10 million downloads in less than two days of its launch, is being praised as "better than ever". In fact, Walt Mossberg from AllThingsD  believes the app is even better in most respects on the iPhone than it is on the Android. Google has re-designed its maps app...

Now you can get all your Tweets, including Retweets, going back to the day you joined Twitter by downloading your Twitter archive, a new feature introduced by Twitter today. With your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags and @usernames. To...

A couple of days back, Citi's Apple analysts radically cut the price target for Apple Stock to $575, rating it neutral down from buy. The same team had previously given clients a 20-day one-two punch, issuing a buy at $571 just before the stock fell to $509, before eventually downgrading it to neutral. Looks like CNBC's Jim Cramer...

Credit Card Compare has published a concept for an Apple branded credit card, the iCard (via Business Insider). What's really interesting about it is not the idea of an Apple card, but is actually the mockup Apple marketing materials Credit Card Compare has made for it. With features like Passbook integration, Siri voice control, Notifications and Find...

As expected, 6 Wunderkinder has today released Wunderlist 2, the new redesigned version of the popular, free to-do app for the iPhone and iPad. In addition, the app has also been released for Mac, Web, Android and Windows platforms. To make things easier, existing Wunderlist users can simply log in with their existing account details and all their lists will...

The folks over at RealMac software, in collaboration with Impending, have today unveiled their upcoming iOS project called Hatch, the first iPhone app that actually loves you back. For a better idea, check out the teaser video of the app embedded at the end. The developers describe Hatch as a new kind of pet, that is...

Twitter, the popular online social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters a.k.a "tweets", has turned 6 today with over 200 million active monthly users, doubling its number of users in just over a year. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten...