Stories by Usman Qureshi

A new Apple patent published by US Patent & Trademark Office today reveals company's plans for next-generation Smart Cover which include interactive Multi-Touch panels, solar panels, inductive charging, smart pen input and lots more (via Patently Apple). The source points out that this could the first interactive iPad accessory and would serve for lots more than just screen...

While reports of an iPhone 5 launch event taking place on September 12th are most likely going to turn out correct, analyst Shaw Wu from Sterne Agee believes that this new iPhone might not go on sale before October due to some unexpected production problems (via Electronista). Based on supplier checks, the analyst notes that he only expects volume production of iPhones...

comScore, the global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital business analytics, has today released data from the comScore MobiLens service reporting overall U.S. mobile phone market share during the three month average period ending June 2012. The numbers reveal that Apple continues to gain share in the OEM market ranking third with 15.4% of mobile...

As the crucial Samsung vs. Apple patents battle began in San Jose federal court this week, Samsung tried to convince the jury that before Apple unveiled the first iPhone, it was pursuing a design inspired by a device from Sony. In response, Apple submitted another iPhone prototype code named ”Purple” which indicated it was designed several months before the...

Renowned iOS hacker and key member of Chronic-Dev Team Joshua Hill, more commonly known as @p0sixninja, has just announced his departure from the team on twitter. Popular iPhone / iPad jailbreak tool greenpois0n is one of the biggest highlights of Chronic-Dev Team and p0sixninja has been one of the leading developers behind it. It is no question that p0sixninja has played...

Budget Car Rental, one of the world's best-known car rental brands with more than 3,000 locations in 120 countries, has launched its official app in the iTunes App Store today that allows users to make, view, modify or cancel reservations for car rentals at Budget neighborhood and airport locations throughout the United States and Canada (via WSJ...

Moscow based company OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone’s biggest wireless carrier in Russia, has blamed Apple for not lowering the iPhone's price in the country and being too strict about how it’s sold (via Bloomberg Businessweek). Apple is currently selling the iPhone 4S at $1,000-plus price in the country making it a hard sell in a market where rival...

All those who've upgraded their Macs to OS X Mountain Lion should check out Mountain Tweaks 1.0, a cool application that lets users fully customize their new OS by changing hidden settings. Developed by Fredrik Wiker, the maker of popular Lion Tweaks application, Mountain Tweaks focuses on a user friendly user-interface, even more tweaks and the ability...

While Apple is battling with Samsung in one of the biggest-ever technology patent trials, a Taiwanese university National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has sued Apple for infringing upon two of its voice recognition patents, Reuters reports. The suit was filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas which alleges that the technology found in...

Ahead of potentially multiple product launches including the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, Apple is reportedly securing a lot of component supplies resulting in increased expenses by $1.15 billion sequentially in the June quarter (via Apple Insider). Company's growing prepayments were revealed in the company's 10-Q filing and highlighted on Monday by analyst Maynard Um with Wells Fargo Securities....

Famous iOS developer Ryan Petrich has released an all new jailbreak tweak called Monocle in Cydia store that allows users to enable full-screen mode for all stock iOS applications such as Notes, Maps, Settings etc (via modmyi). Once installed, the tweak allows users to toggle the full-screen mode on demand by invoking an Activator action from within an app. By default, Monocle...

Yesterday, a bunch of photographs detailing some new iPhone 5 leaked parts surfaced on the web and today, a report by iMore seems to claim that this next generation iPhone will be introduced by Apple at a special event on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 alongside an iPad Mini and a new iPod nano announcement. The source...