Stories by Usman Qureshi

Last week, Apple was issued a ruling granting the company's request for a preliminary injunction banning sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S. Today, an appeal made soon after the ruling by Samsung to lift this ban on its tablet sales in the region has been denied by the U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose,...

According to a report by MacRumors (via ifoAppleStore), Apple is testing a redesigned Genius Bar for at least some of its retail stores in order to increase capacity at the busy support location. A photo of the new layout published by ifoAppleStore shows that the entire Genius Bar will be turned by 90 degrees to provide stools for customers...

Latest NetMarketShare report for mobile, browsers, operating systems, search engines and social media reveals that the dominance of iOS over web marketshare has continued in June and has now surpassed 65%, which is an almost 15% increase year-over-year as noted by 9to5Mac. In contrast, Android currently sits at 20%, with the dying BlackBerry just under 2%. It is believed that huge sales...

A couple of months back, we published a story regarding claims of some senior Chinese officials who said that "Proview Technology is the rightful owner of the iPad trademark, not Apple", in the light of which the Cupertino giant was expected to lose the disputed ‘iPad’ trademark to Proview in China. Looks like that day has...

IT firm ServiceNow's CEO Frank Slootman revealed in an interview on CNBC that his company's operations are "wall-to-wall" reliant on Apple products, including iPhones and MacBooks, reports Apple Insider. ServiceNow is a software-as-a-service provider of IT service management software based in San Diego, California. Slootman has served as ServiceNow's CEO since 2001. The company's exclusive use of Apple products is...

Italian law demands that customers who buy electronic products in the country have the right to get two years of free assistance, irrespective of other warranties offered by a manufacturer. However, like everywhere else, Apple offers a 1 year limited warranty for its products in Italy. As a result, Italy's competition regulator is now threatening Apple Inc with...

As pointed out by 9to5Mac, Apple has officially shut down MobileMe services as expected, and has also removed the iDisk and MobileMe Gallery apps from the App Store. MobileMe users who haven't migrated to iCloud yet can still make the switch, download their photos and files from Gallery and iDisk respectively. Apple introduced iCloud last...

According to a report by Business Insider, Apple's former senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet, who left the company in March last year after 22 years of service with Steve Jobs at NeXT and Apple, is secretly working with at least two other former Apple employees to launch a cloud computing startup in downtown Palo...

Apple gained control of 'iPhone5.com' domain last month which hosted a small active forum dedicated to the discussion of the iPhone 5. The domain is now controlled by Corporation Service Company, most likely on Apple’s behalf. Now, the Cupertino giant wants to acquire 'iPad3.com' domain and has filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as pointed out by Domain Name...

Earlier this month, Element Case introduced the Vapor Pro ELITE™ for iPhone 4/4S, a limited edition series of bumper cases available in four different models and with three different finishes. Today, they have announced the Vapor Pro Stealth 2 for iPhone 4/4S, a re-designed version of the ever popular and Element Case Vapor Pro Stealth™. The new Element Case Vapor Pro Stealth 2™...

As the shares of Research In Motion continue to plunge at a steeper than expected rate, the Canadian company's executives are facing an immense pressure to come to a decision whether to sell the network business or form an alliance with Microsoft, reports Reuters. The Blackberry maker has once again delayed the release of its next-generation...

A brand new iOS app called Wickr offers military-grade encryption for protecting text, photo, audio or video messages on an iPhone. Wickr is so easy to use that "a 3-year-old can send encrypted messages", says the app's co-founder Nico Sell (via CNET). All messages you send using Wickr disappear within six days, unless you want them to self-destruct earlier...