Stories by Usman Qureshi

A couple of weeks back when Apple sent out official invitations for the new iPad launch event, its stock (AAPL) climbed to a new lifetime high taking the company's market capital to over $500 Billion. Today, AAPL touched the $600 mark for the first time ever as trading opened this morning. It did however come down to $594 by...

GeoHot, the genius behind the original iPhone jailbreak, was arrested today for possessing marijuana while he was driving to the annual SXSW conference in Austin. On his way to give a talk at SXSW, he reportedly had to pass through a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca where the Department of Homeland Security had drug dogs that...

Following the introduction of new Apple TV with 1080p playback support, Apple pushed 1080p video to the iTunes Store, essentially doubling the number of pixels from the previously offered 720p content. For those wondering how does iTunes' HD 1080p content compare with the Blu-ray Disc's video in terms of quality, folks at Ars Technica have published a...

A report from Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek (via Business Insider) suggests that Apple HD television components are already being shipped to the company's TV display panel partners in Asia while the commercial production of approximately 5 million units is set to begin in May or June. The report claims that Apple's HDTV will be...

Folks at Face.com have recently introduced a camera app for iOS called KLIK. The feature that sets this one apart from the others is its ability to instantly recognize faces of your friends and family (matched from your Facebook account) the moment you point the camera at them. When you snap a photo with KLIK...

An interesting report by DigiTimes suggests that Apple is preparing to launch the sixth generation iPhone with 4G LTE technology during the second half of 2012. DigiTimes has learned from its anonymous sources in Taiwan that Apple’s next iPhone is “very likely” to include integrated 4G LTE connectivity, similar to the newly launched iPad. The report further claims...

Latest report by The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that HBO is in negotiations with Fox and Universal Studios to bring their movies to the iCloud. At last week's unveiling of the new Apple TV, it was announced that users will be able to access their purchased movies via iCloud as well, a feature previously limited to music and TV shows....

Last month, Apple seeded developer's beta for Safari 5.1.4 and today, it has pushed the latest update to the public which can be downloaded for Mac and Windows platforms. Safari's latest update is 44.71 MB for OS X Lion, 47.52 MB for OS X Snow Leopard and 36.72 MB for Windows users. Major highlights of...

We've recently published a guide on how to install the new iPhoto for iOS app on the original iPad which is not natively supported by Apple and now, we have another tutorial to help you bypass the iOS 5.1 restriction for installing iPhoto and the latest iMovie update on your jailbroken iOS 5.0.1 devices. As...

While there are presently a couple of other methods too which allow Siri installation on un-supported iOS devices, the advantage of i4Siri hack is that it does not need an iPhone 4S at hand or require a proxy server setup for installation. i4Siri is currently in beta and supports features like time, timer, notes, www search, dictation,...

Back in November last year, Tether released a $14.99 iOS app called iTether into the App Store which allowed unlimited USB tethering on any iPhone, even if the carrier restricted data tethering. As expected, Apple removed the app soon after but now, the same company has come up with another workaround only this time, it does not...

The Dev Team has already released an update to Redsn0w following the public release of iOS 5.1 earlier this week and now, Windows exclusive jailbreak tool Sn0wbreeze has been updated to support Apple's latest firmware. Sn0wbreeze v2.9.2 can now jailbreak iOS 5.1 on A4 devices by creating custom jailbroken firmware files. Newer devices with A5 chip i.e...