Stories by Usman Qureshi

Research In Motion (RIM), a one-time pioneer in the smartphone industry, has announced that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is going to begin a pilot program on its new line of BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Reuters reports that the U.S. federal agency has been previously been planning to move away from BlackBerry in favor of iPhone. ...

According to a report by CNET Australia, Samsung is setting up another marketing ploy against Apple by showing off its maps app in a new ad campaign. The following photo has been taken from Samsung's campaign, showing an SUV besides a tent and other camping equipment and a board that reads "Oops, should have got a Samsung Galaxy...

Today, Yahoo has released a completely overhauled version of Flickr for iOS app, its first update since December last year. The update promises to bring Flickr users on mobile devices, a familiar interface to what they experience on the web. Similar to the Flickr website, iOS users can now upload unlimited photos from their camera roll, add their...

A letter signed by Apple, Cisco, Intel, Research In Motion and Samsung among others, has been sent to "key lawmakers" urging the Congress to provide more airwaves for smartphones and tablet computers, reports The Hill.  The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly working to implement a law to auction some TV stations' airwaves, called spectrum, to cellular...

Former Rovio employees who played a vital role in the development of the original Angry Birds game, have debuted their first iOS game Noble Nutlings, under a new setup named Boomlagoon. The Finnish firm has initially launched the game in a few international App Stores, including Canada, as a free universal iPhone / iPad download. As pointed...

"Apple still has no peer", says the Time Magazine as it ranks iPhone 5 as number 1 in the list of top 10 gadgets of 2012. Comparing it with Samsung’s Galaxy S III, the article says that when it comes to melding hardware, software and seamless services, iPhone 5 simply blows away the competition. Apple unveiled the iPhone 5, its sixth...

Though Samsung still tops the charts with 40% global LTE device market share, the percentage has actually dropped down from 50.9% in the last three months. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics (via The Next Web), this drop has been caused by the iPhone 5's tremendous sales that has taken Apple to the 2nd...

Microsoft Surface, the company's flagship tablet that was launched a couple of months back with a high-end pro version scheduled for December release, is reportedly struggling to compete with similarly priced Google tablets in the market, generating merely 0.13% of all tablet web traffic, notes Chitika. Microsoft released its Surface tablet on October 26th, while Google released a similar priced...

According to a report by The Next Web, Microsoft recently allowed SkyDrive users to purchase paid storage upgrades on their iOS devices directly, bypassing Apple's in-app purchases that gives Apple a 30% cut of the subscription revenue. As a result, Apple is now refusing to approve any updates to SkyDrive app for iOS. The source claims...

Developer Alex Saretzky has published a hypothetical redesign of the Notification Center for iOS and OS X, replacing those annoying 'x' close buttons with blocks of notifications that can be dismissed by a swipe to the right or by dragging them off screen (via The Loop). The concept also shows some animation ideas to reveal the Notification Center. The...

In the light of growing tension between Apple and its custom ARM-based chips supplier Samsung in the courtrooms, the Cupertino giant is reportedly is looking into an alternative supplier for its custom A-series processors, with certain rumours pointing at Taiwan-based TSMC, a company Apple tried to secure exclusive access to earlier this year (via MacRumors). Apple is apparently planning to...

According to a study carried out by Federal Trade Commission, it appears that majority of smartphone apps for kids are secretly collecting data from children including their device IDs, phone numbers, locations and other private information without their parents' consent, reports the LA Times. The FTC reviewed 235 mobile apps for kids from the Google Play and Apple App...