Stories by Usman Qureshi

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters in a telephonic interview today that the company is going to power all three of its data centers with 100% renewable energy, with its core data center in North Carolina going coal-free by the end of this year. Apple has been buying equipment from SunPower Corp and Bloom Energy to build two solar array...

Readdle has just pushed a major update to PDF Expert for iPhone, that takes the popular PDF viewing and annotating iPhone app to version 3.0. While the app already supported PDF Forms, the latest update brings the ability to sign PDFs using handwritten signatures right on the iPhone. This lets users sign contracts, agreements, statements etc. on-the-go and...

Following a report by DigiTimes, claiming that Apple has recently placed massive mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) orders with Elpida, Samsung's major chip rival in Japan, shares of Samsung Electronics fell down more than 6%, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant's market value, according to Reuters. Samsung, which is the world's biggest DRAM maker, suffered its biggest...

Latest mobile device data released by research firm Gartner reveals that Apple now accounts for 7.9% of global mobile phone market selling 33.1 million iPhones during the first quarter of calendar 2012 (via Apple Insider). The report represents worldwide mobile device sales to end users instead of total shipments. It is notable that the 33.1 million iPhones that Gartner says...

In response to lawsuits filed last month against Siri, alleging that the intelligent personal assistant software introduced in iPhone 4S doesn’t perform as advertised, Apple has today filed a motion to dismiss the cases, reports Wall Street Journal. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, defending Apple against these claims, said in a recent court filing that Siri is currently...

Apple has recently been hit with a major lawsuit across U.S and Canada for allegedly colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for e-books. Even though Apple has already responded by stating that none of these allegations are true, some very interesting details regarding the case have just been brought forward by Paid Content's reporter Laura Hazard, the most important of...

According to a recent publication by Reuters, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that that Apple could press its bid for an immediate injunction to block the sale of Samsung Galaxy tablets in the U.S on allegations of a patent infringement. The court further ruled that district court judge in California was...

Glenn A. Britt, the CEO of Time Warner Cable, reportedly said in a group interview with NY Times on Friday that that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. Even though he claimed to be an enthusiastic Apple customer, he stated that he had never heard of anything called 'AirPlay'. Looks like...

A couple of days back, Pod2g confirmed that a successful untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak has been achieved which also works on the new iPad. He further said that a public release is still a few weeks away as he wants to make a nice, user friendly jailbreak tool for his newly found jailbreak exploits. Today, he has...

I've always been a fan of SGP's Steinheil Ultra Series screen protectors. These crystal clear, finger-print resistant films allow easy, bubble free application that makes them one of the best offerings in the market. However, makers of these industry leading protection films have just come up with an even better solution called the SGP GLAS.t, which unlike any...

Update 1: Bloomberg reports thinner MacBook Pros will be announced at WWDC: Apple Inc. (AAPL) is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel Corp. (INTC), people with knowledge of the plans said. The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled at Apple’s annual developers conference starting June 11, also...

For the past many months, I've been totally hooked to online video and music streaming services like Hulu+, BBC, MOG and Pandora. In fact, I don't remember having to download any TV show episode or an mp3 to my computer for watching it later. While some of these services are totally free, it is unfortunate...