Stories by Usman Qureshi

A new data released by RetailSales after analysing more than 200 American retailers spanning 15 sectors, reveals that Apple is the most valuable retailer based on sales per square foot, earning more than double of what the country's second most profitable retailer Tiffany & Co. is making, reports AppleInsider. The analysis suggests that Apple's retail stores earn $6,050 per...

Earlier this month, the UK Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the misleading statement citing a judge comparing the designs of the Apple and Samsung products and replace it with a new notice. Apple showed compliance by publishing a revised notice, acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s patents and therefore did not breach U.K....

Folks over at DisplayMate have ran an in-depth series of Mobile Display Technology Shoot-Out tests in order to examine the performance of the Microsoft Surface RT as compared to Apple iPad 3 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (for the best display among 10 inch Android Tablets). Find out who wins after the jump! DisplayMate's test revealed that Microsoft Surface RT's display outperforms all...

A cool Kickstarter project by the name of Romo, is an affordable, personal robot that uses your iPhone or iPod touch as its brain. According to the developers, this next-gen Romo is almost everything a personal robot should be i.e cute, responsive and really fast, though it's still not capable of doing all that stuff you see in the...

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research In Motion, has today announced in a press release that the company is going to hold the BlackBerry 10 launch event on January 30, 2013. The event is set to take place in multiple countries around the globe, where new BlackBerry smartphones and their availability will be revealed. RIM's highly anticipated...

As pointed out first by game developers CMA Megacorp, the iPhone 5 seems to respond differently than previous generation iPhones when sliding a finger diagonally across the screen in quick succession, a glitch that may pose a problem for game developers, 9to5Mac reports.  The glitch is not noticeable by all users, though this may be a serious issue for game developers that...

China Telecom, the 3rd largest mobile telecommunication provider in China, is now preparing to introduce the iPhone 5 in late November or early December, which would mark the official launch of Apple's latest iPhone in China, reports The Wall Street Journal (via MacRumors). The report also points out that China was responsible for 16% of Apple's total revenue from last quarter that...

Last week, Apple started accepting donations towards the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts through its iTunes Store, enabling users to donate money directly to the American Red Cross in denominations of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200 using their existing iTunes accounts. Today, Apple has announced that it will donate $2.5 million to the Red Cross in order to benefit...

Back in October, Samsung filed a request for a re-trial demanding that $1.05 billion verdict awarded in favor of Apple should be overturned because the jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose that 20 years ago he was in litigation with Seagate, for whom Samsung is a major investor, during the jury selection. CNET now reports that Federal District...

Some of us get an iPhone case to add style, while some do it add protection. For iPhone 5, the protection part sounds a lot more convincing though, considering its highly scratch prone aluminium construction. Today, we'll be looking at a variety of iPhone 5 cases from SwitchEasy, a brand famous for producing cases that are...

Apple’s Made for iPhone (MFi) conference was expected to take place this month in China in order to discuss AirPlay and Bluetooth standards with third party iPhone/iPod/iPad accessory makers and also to restrict sales of Lightning connectors / accessories to authorised partners. According to a new report by TUAW, Apple is now looking to make compliance with its supplier code...

Former director of Apple's federal sales group David Sobotta, has stated in an interview with Readwrite.com (via CNET) that Apple CEO Tim Cook lacks leadership skills and is a "lightweight" when it comes to understanding technology.  Sobotta, who is also the author of recently published Kindle book "The Pomme Company", in which he shares his 20-year experience at Apple, said in an interview...