Stories by Usman Qureshi

The 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards were unveiled in a special ceremony at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where comedian and songwriter, Tim Minchin announced the winners at the industry’s biggest annual event. A record 600 entries were received this year from over 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts from throughout the world....

Last week, we reported that that Readability, the popular text reflow service, is once again looking to release an iOS app. Well, the app has just gone live in the App Store and can be downloaded as a universal binary for iPhone and iPad for free. Readability for iOS turns any web page into a clean view for reading...

Do you want to AirPlay Mirror your iPhone / iPad onto your Mac's bigger screen but can't since you do not own an Apple TV? Well, we might just have the perfect solution for you! An all new OS X app called Reflection now lets you AirPlay Mirror the display of your iPhone or iPad to your...

DigiTimes is reporting that Apple is expected to launch revamped 2012 MacBook Pro with a much thinner chassis as soon as April. The report only mentions 2012 MacBook Pro in 13-inch & 15-inch sizes while there is no word on the 17-inch version. The report also points out delays in mass availability of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors, suggesting that Apple could gain...

Cheer up comic fans! Marvel has released their classic graphic novels on Apple's iBookstore which can be downloaded right now on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Prices currently start from free to $24.99 with “New Avengers Vol. 1: Breakout” available as a free download for a limited time. The publisher says it has “entered a bold new...

Yesterday, when Apple sent out official invitations for its iPad 3 media event scheduled on March 7th in San Francisco, the Apple stock (AAPL) climbed a striking 9 points, which is more than 1.5%, taking the company's market capital to a new lifetime high. As 9to5Mac notes, when Apple's stocks hit the $536.37 per share mark during the...

CNBC is reporting that a medical procedure called "FaceTime Facelift" has been invented by Dr. Robert K. Sigal, a plastic surgeon who believes he can make people look pretty when video-chatting using the FaceTime app on iPhone. Well, you can get an appointment for yourself right now with Dr. Robert at The Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery in Virginia, in case you're crazy enough to...

According to 9to5Mac's reliable sources, part numbers for some of the iPad 3 models and a new Apple TV have apparently been leaked. The source claims that 3 new models of the next gen. iPad will be unveiled by Apple on March 7th, codenamed J1, J2, and J2a, with the speculation being that J1 corresponds to a Wi-Fi only model...

Ryan Petrich has pushed an all new jailbreak tweak to Cydia called IconRotator. As the name implies, the tweak makes your icons rotate but in a pretty cool and smooth manner. Once you download and install this tweak, your iOS homescreen icons will rotate with your device. So when you rotate your iPhone to landscape, the...

Just over a week ago, Rovio Mobile released the debut teaser for their upcoming Angry Birds Space for iPhone and iPad, and today, they have published the second one. The game will take the birds into outer space for the first time and is scheduled for release on March 22nd. Interestingly, NASA seems to have even inspired with...

While we still await an official announcement from Cupertino headquarters, the rumored date of March 7th for Apple's iPad 3 Media Event is getting closer, bringing all sorts of new rumors and speculations. According to 9to5Mac's recent publication, iPad 3 shipments are already en route to the U.S., a purported shipping document for which has...

As pointed out by MacRumors (via The Digital Reader), Apple's apparent ironclad Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection used in iBooks has finally been cracked. The source claims that the latest version of Requiem, an app that removes Fairplay DRM from music and videos sold via iTunes, will now also remove the DRM from iBooks ebooks. Even though Requiem...