Stories by Usman Qureshi

A couple of students from University of New Brunswick have developed a new iPhone app which alerts the municipal officials of potholes in Fredericton and other cities of Canada, reports CBC. The developers of the app namely Coady and Drew Cameron who are fourth year engineering students and have created the app with their friend Mark Feero, believe that their Totalpave app should...

In a recent report by Mercury News (via 9to5Mac), it appears that Google may be fined by U.S. Federal Trade Commission over bypassing iOS Safari’s privacy settings and continuing to track users without their consent. Even though Google has already disabled the code responsible for such tracking, FTC is still looking deep into the matter and is planning to...

As noted by TNW, Apple has pushed out a couple of new TV ads highlighting Siri for iPhone 4S on its three major U.S carrier partners Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. Most interesting thing about the new ads is that they feature Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. The ads were aired during ESPN's SportsCenter this afternoon with several spots...

Only a couple of days back, Apple released its own Flashback Removal Tool for OS X, making the world's most advanced operating system fully secure again and today, a new Java based trojan has been discovered by Kaspersky Labs expert Costin Raiu. The expert explains in a blog post that the trojan, which is known as "LuckyCat", takes advantage of...

A Beijing based group, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), is set to carry out a joint audit with Apple of one its supplier factories in China, regarding environmental pollution concerns. Wang Jing Jing, the vice director of IPE said that they will be working with Apple and an auditing firm hired to investigate the supplier's pollution controls, the...

Dev-Team has just updated their popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w which supposedly addresses certain issues plaguing the OS X users. The latest release is Redsn0w 0.9.10 b6b which has been pushed out for OS X only and does not add any jailbreak support for iOS 5.1, tethered or untethered for current A5 devices. However, like the previous version,...

In an interview by Neowin, Mark Hulme, the producer of upcoming Steve Jobs indie movie starring Ashton Kucher, has revealed some interesting tidbits about the movie's plot. According to Hulme, the film will cover Apple and Steve Jobs' life from 1971 to 2000. The producer also said that they chose Ashton to play the role of Jobs because of his...

In a recent publication, 9to5Mac points out that Apple Store Genius Bars have been issued a notification regarding white 16GB iPhone 4 handset replacements. They have been instructed to upgrade white 16GB iPhone 4 customers seeking replacement under warranty to iPhone 4S instead due to shortages in inventory of white iPhone 4 16GB. The order stands valid for...

Just yesterday, Apple pushed out a Java update (via OS X Lion Software Update) to remove the Flashback malware from Macs running OS X Snow Leopard and OS X Lion and now, a new standalone Flashback malware removal tool version 1.0 has been released to allow the trojan's removal from non-Java systems as well. The tool is based...

Apple has just seeded OS X Lion 10.7.4 (Build 11E46) exclusively to the developers which addresses issues related to stock OS X apps like Mail, QuickTime, Time Machine etc. in addition to a bunch of bug fixes. Like always, the beta release is available only to registered Mac developers who download the latest update from the Developer Center....

Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly been seen visiting the Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation, the famous video game developer and owner of Steam gaming platform (via Apple Insider). Since Valve's Steam platform works similar to the iOS App Store, providing a market for downloadable PC video game titles, it is being speculated that Cook's visit might...

An all new cloud based note-taking service has been introduced by Fetchnotes (via Tech Crunch) with apps for iOS, Android, OS X and Windows platforms. Simplicity and ease of use is what sets it apart from other similar note taking apps. Instead of having important items at the top or color-coded, Fetchnotes relies on hashtagging the items...