Stories by Usman Qureshi

Back in 2010 when AT&T was an exclusive carrier of iPhone in the U.S., the carrier reportedly asked Blackberry maker RIM to produce a capacitive touchscreen handset that could compete with Apple's iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal (via Apple Insider). It seems that AT&T was worried that the popularity of the iPhone could give Apple too much...

AgileBits, the makers of popular 1Password app for iOS and OS X, have just announced a 30% discount on all of their products in celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day festivities. The announcement was made in a blog entry, pointing out the two big national celebrations in Canada and U.S coming up next week.The 30% sale will run for...

Apple's next generation iPhone a.k.a the iPhone 5, is expected to be introduced later this year at an Apple event sporting a larger 4-inch display, a thinner and longer chassis and an aluminum backplate in addition to packing NFC and 4G LTE capabilities. This highly anticipated iPhone upgrade is expected to be the leading handset of...

Rovio Mobile, the makers of Angry Birds franchise, announced the company’s next major project for iOS last month called Amazing Alex, a puzzle game based on another iOS game named ‘Casey’s Contraptions’. Today, Rovio has released the first teaser trailer for Amazing Alex along with the announcement that the game will be launching very soon on iOS and...

BlueStacks, a company that released a beta version of its "App Player" for Windows a few months back that allows users to run Android apps directly on their Windows PCs, has now released a public alpha version of its Android App Player for OS X today at Google I/O, reports MacRumors (via Engadget). The software is ipowered...

The iPhone has come a long way since its initial launch in 2007 when it was released exclusively on AT&T network with merely a handful of Apple created apps sporting a 320 X 480 resolution display, a 2-megapixel camera and 8 GB of memory. Tomorrow, Apple will be celebrating the five-year anniversary of its most popular invention...

Waze, the maker of popular free GPS apps for iPhones and Android devices, is planning to bring its social mapping software to the cars later this year, Bloomberg reports. Waze’s social mapping software provides turn-by-turn navigation as well as traffic and incident reports submitted by other drivers. Company's CEO Noam Bardin said that Waze is working with most...

Last year, an interesting Apple patent revealed company's plans to introduce wireless or inductive charging of iOS devices via a pair of headphones and now, another patent won by Apple points at an iOS docking station based on similar inductive charging concept, reports Patently Apple. In fact, the source believes that this new patent opens the door for...

Apple pushed iOS 6 beta 2 to the developer community as an over the air (OTA) update a couple of days ago and today, folks at AppAdvice have pointed out one of 200+ brand new features introduced by Apple in the latest version of iOS which most of us might have overlooked. With iOS 6, users in Mail can...

Just days before last month's court-mediated meeting between Apple and Samsung CEOs, the Cupertino giant filed a new injunction against Samsung, requesting an immediate ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States. Well, it looks like Apple has just got its biggest victory yet against its Korean competitor, as U.S Judge Lucy Koh has issued a...

A new smartphone app developed by Cheryl Brown Ovarian Outcomes Unit under supervision of Dr. Sarah Finlayson, a surgeon and researcher with the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at the B.C. Cancer Agency, allows ovarian cancer surgeons in B.C to track vital patient information in a database, CBC News reports. The app reportedly eliminates a long chart-review process where doctors had...

Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Brightcove, an leading online video hosting platform and online video player solution, believes that a core part of any Apple branded Television set project will be Airplay-enabled apps that allow iPhones and iPads to control and interact with the big screen HDTV, reports AllThingsD. Furthermore, Brightcove has announced today a free version of its App Cloud...