Stories by Usman Qureshi

Tony Fadell, the former Apple hardware designer has recently revealed that the iPhone was originally planned to receive a physical keyboard, until the very last moment when Apple decided to go with the touchscreen-only design. In an interview with The Verge over the weekend, he talked about working on eighteen generations of iPods as well as the creation of...

Rovio Mobile's latest Angry Birds game, the Angry Birds Space hit the 20 Million downloads mark in merely one week after its multi-platform release. This milestone was achieved exactly a month ago and today, the game has taken the crown of becoming the fastest growing mobile game ever, according to the game's developers. The game has now surpassed 50 Million...

Skype for iOS has just received a major update which takes the iPhone / iPad app to version 4.0. The updates brings a bunch of new features to the universal app in addition to stability and performance enhancements. With Skype 4.0, users can reposition their own video preview on the screen during a call. Some UI...

Every app developer is not necessarily an expert app designer too. Designing an app is totally different from developing it and is therefore usually done by different people too. Obviously there are guidelines for either department and this nice little infographic here is one such guide, aimed to assist today's iOS app designers. It has...

Popular last-minute hotel booking service Hotel Tonight has announced the availability of its apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch as well as Android in Canada with initial hotel offerings in Toronto and Vancouver, reports Market Watch. The company is planning to expand its international reach, launching in additional Canadian cities and new international markets over the coming...

As noted by modmyi, a cool new jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store called JpgToSiri which allows users to look up pictures on the web using Siri on their iOS devices. Developed by Vladislav Korotnev, the tweak gives Siri the capability of fetching images from the internet by using the command “Show me a picture of [insert...

A couple of weeks back, we reported that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung were planning to meet in San Francisco for a court-moderated discussion, in order to settle the long-standing patent dispute between the two companies. Today, Foss Patents has reported that the meeting has now been finalized between Tim Cook (Apple) and Gee-Sung Choi (Samsung) which is scheduled to take place...

Tony Fadell, Apple's ex Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, has revealed an interesting truth about the original iPhone's development in an interview with The Verge. He claims that a hardware keyboard was seriously considered within Apple "before the iconic touchscreen-only design was given the green light". Furthermore, he said that there were two other versions of the device...

Apple's stock price (AAPL: $603.10) has been growing at a rapid pace for the past many months. In the light of this steady growth as well as Apple's blowout Q2 2012 earnings, analysts are predicting that the share price will hit $1,111 by April 2013, according to AllThingsD. Furthermore, Apple will become the world’s first trillion-dollar company...

As noted by MacGeneration (via 9to5Mac), the Mac App Store has hit the 10,000 apps mark today. The iOS App Store currently has 600,000 apps with over 200,000 exclusive apps for the iPad's bigger display. The smaller number of apps in case of Mac App Store is due to the fact that majority of software...

Folks, I'm gonna keep this one as simple as the product itself. Called the Lazy Couch™, this small laptop accessory has been designed by Just Mobile, a company known for its iconic products such as the Xtand for iPhone / iPod, Gum Max Pro battery pack and AluPen Pro to name a few. It is meant...

With so many built-in keyboard cases for iPad coming out recently, none of them has really been able to shine. But now, it seems like these folks have finally nailed it. A new Kickstarter project named Brydge is an innovative hinged iPad keyboard made with highest grade aluminum, much similar to the kind used in Apple's MacBooks. The...