Stories by Usman Qureshi

Louis Gerbarg and Geoff Litwack from Los Angeles have just come up with a brand new Kickstarter project called the Hone which is a small low-energy Bluetooth device that works with iPhone 4S as well as the New iPad. Hone simply attaches to a keychain that lights up and audibly vibrates when triggered using an iOS app, so you...

Back in March, the makers of Sparrow, one of the finest email clients for Mac OS X, introduced Sparrow for iPhone which has been getting better and better ever since in an effort to become the perfect Mail.app alternative for iOS devices. Having recently added the ability to support POP accounts, the company has decided...

Folks over at iFixit have performed a teardown of the next generation MacBook Pro's Retina display to find out what Apple has done to make the new display so gorgeous and as expected, they were so amazed with its technology that they've labelled it "an engineering marvel". iFixit has found out that new MacBook Pro's LCD is essentially the entire...

Did you happen to notice that all of the new Retina display MacBook Pros are positioned at exactly the same angle every morning at Apple Retail stores? This is because Apple store employees who open the store use an iPhone app as a level to tilt all the screens to exactly 70 degrees. Wanna know why? According to...

Recently, Dev-Team's @MuscleNerd spoke at the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference in Amsterdam about the history of iPhone's baseband. Yesterday, he also teased those looking for a 06.15.00 baseband downgrade with a tweet saying that the team will be bringing a downgrade option soon and as promised, RedSn0w 0.9.14b1 has been released with the ability to downgrade iPhone 3G / 3GS baseband 06.15.00 to 05.13.04...

Apple has bid farewell to Google Maps in iOS 6, replacing the globally loved maps application with its own 3D Maps app. However, not all iOS devices will be getting the Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation features of the new Maps app when they upgrade to iOS 6 later this year, including the iPhone 4. Luckily, according to...

Chip manufacturers have ramped up the production of 4G & Wi-Fi chips and have started stocking them for Apple's next-generation iPhone, reports DigiTimes. Vendors including Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI) and OmniVision are manufacturing 4G LTE chips using a 28nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in anticipation of iPhone 5 which is set to hit the...

A lawyer residing in British Columbia named Perminder S. Tung, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Apple Canada for the demise of his nearly three-year-old Time Capsule (via CBC News). The prosecutor has apparently accused Apple of being in "breach of contract for failure to provide promised services and goods", and is seeking over $25,000 in damages for the loss of the "sole...

Nokia has announced today that it is going to shut some research and development projects including a manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland and research facilities in Burnaby, B.C. and Ulm, Germany, as the company plans to lay off 10,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013, reports Bloomberg. Nokia said that these cuts and closures will result in...

We've previously seen photos of Ashton Kutcher already growing hair to look more like Steve Jobs for his role of Steve in an upcoming indie pic titled “jOBS” and now, a few more actors have been caught on camera while filming for the movie in Steve Jobs’ childhood home (via 9to5Mac). Filming of the biopic started last month and is expected to cover Apple and Steve Jobs’ life...

In less than 24 hours after Apple releasing the first developer’s beta release of iOS 6, Dev-Team’s @MuscleNerd jailbroke the latest iOS release by confirming a successful tethered iOS 6 beta jailbreak on his iPod touch 4G. Today, an updated version of Redsn0w jailbreak tool has been released exclusively for the developers which supports tethered iOS 6 beta jailbreak on A4 devices. Redsn0w 0.9.13dev1...

Apple has just added the Express Checkout option to its official Apple Store Canada app for iOS. For those who aren't aware, Express Checkout is a convenient feature that allows users to purchase online at the Apple Store with a single click, without having to enter their credit card information every time. However, if you...