Stories by Usman Qureshi

The official Booking.com app for iPhone and iPad has just been updated to support the new Passbook feature in iOS 6. The free universal app, that has been downloaded over 10 million times from the App Store, offers a quick, easy and secure way to find and book hotels through an iPhone or iPad. The update also...

Apple has introduced 'Shared Reminders' to iCloud.com web app, a features that OS X Mountain Lion users have been able to use via the native Reminders app, points out MacRumors. The feature is also not available from the Reminders app in iOS 6. Apple added Notes and Reminders web apps to iCloud.com last month, but didn't...

Valpak, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Media Group Inc. that offers discount coupons for numerous retailers and restaurants, recently updated its Local Savings iPhone app to support Passbook in iOS 6. Today, they have announced that more than 20,000 coupons have been loaded to its iOS app since the Passbook integration, a feature that was rolled out last week. Valpak has been working to...

Microsoft has today announced its new 'Xbox Music' service in an effort to compete with the likes of iTunes and Spotify, which will not only be available on Xbox 360 game console, but also come pre-installed with Windows 8 and support Windows Phone 8 as well (via Reuters). Official Xbox Music apps for iOS and Android platforms will...

Most of us (including myself) believe that the new iPod touch, that packs incredible power for such a sleek device, would perform on par or slightly slower than the iPhone 5 considering it has a similar sized display and an A5 processing chip like the one seen in iPhone 4S. However, Geekbench benchmark scores reveal that the...

The Dev-Team has today pushed a major update to its iOS jailbreak tool RedSn0w, taking it to version 0.9.15b1 that introduces a bunch of new features including the option to restore to older firmwares (including iOS 5.x) which are no longer being signed by Apple. Other new options include untethered 6.0 jailbreak & hactivation on old-bootrom 3GS, hactivation on any...

If you still haven't decided whether to go case-free or otherwise with that shiny new iPhone 5 of yours, this might make your decision easier. As any iPhone 5 owner would know, it's actually the sleek chassis that makes it feel a lot nicer in your hands than any of the previous iPhones. So, using...

Texas based LED Tech Development has filed a formal complaint with a court in Delaware against Apple for infringement of four of it patents, reports Patently Apple. The filing states that Apple's iPad 3 and MacBook Pro infringe upon four of LED Tech's patents that the company describes as being "patents by assignment." The reports notes that Charles Lemaire, one of...

Teehan+Lax has just released iOS 6 GUI PSD for the iPhone 5, which can now be downloaded from their website. The designers have released the PSD as a free license file (13.79 MB), so that users can "conceive, design, pitch and build really great software that we’ll come to use on a daily basis" (via iClarified). They say that...

The official Jetsetter™ app for iPhone, that was awarded the best iPhone travel app by Apple's App Store Rewind 2011, has been updated to support the Passbook feature in iOS 6, in addition to iPhone 5's taller display support, quick checkout with credit card scanning and a few bug fixes. Jetsetter™ provides insider access to the world's...

A new jailbreak tweak called SiriPort, which is now available for download in the Cydia store, allows A4 device owners to install Apple's digital voice assistant Siri. The tweak works on any jailbroken iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G or the original iPad running iOS 6. Folks over at AppAdvice have made a video tutorial on how...

Earlier this week, Sega announced that its widely popular console game Crazy Taxi would launch on the iPhone and iPad sometime during the month of October. Looks like that day has come and the universal iPhone / iPad game is now available for download in the App Store. For those not familiar with Crazy Taxi, you race...