Stories by Usman Qureshi

Studio Neat has announced the release of new Glif and Glif+ for iPhone 5 today, both of which are now available for order and will begin shipping early next week. The Glif ($20) is a small, elegant tripod mount and stand for the iPhone. You can use it to mount your iPhone 5 to a tripod for taking pictures & making...

The Telegraph is reporting (via The Register) that British bank Barclays has placed one of UK’s largest ever iPad orders i.e 8,500 units, for its various branches in order to better assist and interact with customers, in an effort to improve the overall customer experience. The iPads will also feature a new app specifically for mortgage advisers called "Mortgage...

Patently Apple is reporting that a new Apple Store application exclusively designed for Genuis Bar and other services related to iOS devices has been revealed in a patent application published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today. The app will apparently help users to check in and see a Genius Bar representative at an Apple Store or a...

Starting at US $621, this iMac knockoff named LAVI S21i has been launched with an aluminum enclosure, a 21.5-inch 1920×1080 display, 4GB RAM and runs Windows 8. It even has a a built-in HD camera, WiFi connectivity, four USB 2.0 ports, a VGA port and a LAN port (via MIC Gadget). Most interesting of all is that at its...

Brandon Evans, an iOS developer, has put up the code and instructions for a SiriProxy plugin on Github, that allows users to control Philips Hue lights (via The Loop).  In the past, we have seen people use SiriProxy to lock / unlock and even start a car as well as to fully control a television. Similarly, Siri controlled apps for iPhone and iPad have...

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who took over the company after Steve Jobs merely 18 months ago, has been named as the highest paid CEO in America by CNBC (via Cult Of Mac). The report notes that Tim Cook tops the list of highest-paid CEOs in America with an average annual compensation of around $95 million, followed by Oracle’s Larry...

Rovio Entertainment co-founder Niklas He'd and executive Peter Vesterbacka have revealed to TechCrunch at the Slush conference today that Chinese players of Angry Birds have overtaken the US in terms of daily usage. They also shared how the company nearly went bust and they had to lay off 20 friends back in the early days. While the Angry Birds has already passed a billion...

Apple and HTC have recently reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement, with HTC agreeing to pay a speculated licensing fees of $6-8 for each Android device it sells to Apple. Today, a report published by FOSS Patents is claiming that Apple and HTC have agreed to...

Back in February, a major security bug was discovered in iOS that allowed stolen iPhones to continue receiving iMessages, even if the SIM was deactivated and password changed. Now, The Next Web is reporting that Apple has fixed this critical bug in iOS 6 through a variety of checks placed on iMessage. The report points out that in...

Looks like Apple is running its trademark “explode out of the box” ads in 3D on various websites. As pointed out by 9to5Mac, this ad is for iPods and was found on pitchfork.com. The 3D ad is pretty cool, though it's a but too loud. In the past, Apple has promoted the iPod with several advertising campaigns, particularly...

Apple has opened its first eBay store in an effort to sell refurbished products directly to customers. Labeled only as “Refurbished Outlet”, 9to5Mac claims that it is in fact an Apple-run Store within eBay and is currently in its trial phase. The store has received 99.7% positive reviews from buyers though there is no information on the source of...

The aluminium joint on the all new 2012 iMac, which is just 5mm thick around the edges of the display, is made possible by a friction-stir welding technique which is an intellectual property of British company TWI, reports The Register. The friction-stir welding technique, what was invented back in 1991 by Wayne Thomas at TWI, is a process that doesn't...