Stories by Usman Qureshi

Apple called a number of witnesses to the stand today in order to counter the testimony from Samsung’s experts, after which U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh said, “We are done,” putting an end to nearly fifty hours of testimony heard by the jury, according to AllThingsD. Both Apple and Samsung have now rested their case...

Samsung has rested its case in the ongoing patents infringement trial against Apple after putting on witnesses who claimed that Apple would owe the Korean tech-giant as much as $421.8 million in royalties, as reported by Bloomberg. David Teece, one of Samsung's damages experts from University of California, Berkeley’s business school, said that Apple’s alleged infringement of two of the patents...

Back in April, Apple stock (AAPL) reached an all-time high of $644 taking the company's market capital to over $600 billion. Today, AAPL passed that mark once again, hitting a fresh record of $644.13 per share, following which Jefferies analyst Peter Misek boosted his price target to $900 from $800, and predicted that the iPhone 5 could be “the biggest handset...

Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home recently became a victim of burglary in which several Apple computers and personal items worth more than $60,000 were stolen. While the burglar has been caught and jailed already, a friend of his who goes by the name of 'Kenny the Clown', got his hands on one of Steve's personal iPads...

In addition to its massive data center in Maiden, North Carolina, Apple has been planning to build a new data center in Oregon and today, the company has officially filed its plans with the city of Prineville, revealing its goal of constructing 500,000 square feet of data center space, reports MacRumors (via Associated Press). The report points out that Apple is...

A few days ago, we told you that the next Angry Birds Seasons update will introduce the ‘pink’ bird, an all new female bird that will blow bubbles to get at those dirty pigs. Today, Rovio has pushed that update in the App Store, taking Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Seasons HD to version 2.5.0. The...

Harold McElhinny, a lawyer representing Apple, yesterday displayed an internal Samsung e-mail to the jury, revealing that Google asked Samsung to change the design of its phones and tablets to look less like Apple’s devices, reports Bloomberg. The e-mail detailed minutes from a design meeting that was sent to “pass along only a few comments from Senior...

Back in April, Apple was accused of colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for digital books, as a result of which the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company. Later, Apple issued a statement that the company wants to go to trial to defend itself against these price fixing allegations. Now, DOJ has proposed Apple to settle with three...

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh urged CEOs of Apple and Samsung once again today to meet in an effort to settle the case. The Judge told legal counsel for both companies that she'd appreciate "if you can have your CEOs have one last conversation", AllThingsD is reporting. “You can put your tables together and share,” Koh...

Roger Fidler, a news technology developer called as a trial witness by Samsung yesterday in the ongoing patents infringement trial with Apple, claimed that Cupertino company saw his prototype for a tablet computer over a decade before the iPad was released in 2010, Bloomberg reports. The witness, who heads the digital publishing program at the University of Missouri, said...

Back in April, Royal Canadian Mint sent invitation to iOS developers to join the MintChip™ Developer Challenge, asking them to create an innovate digital payment app using MintChip technology. The contest entries ran though July 18, 2012 and today, the Royal Canadian Mint has announced the start of the public voting for the popular choice award in the $50,000...

Apple has been awarded patent for a new touch screen LCD technology that may suggest how the company might be able to reduce weight and thickness of next generation iPhone displays by combining different touch-sensing elements, reports AppleInsider. Labelled as "Touch screen liquid crystal display", the newly patented LCD screen technology integrates the touch sensors with the actual display circuits,...