Stories by Usman Qureshi

First, Apple took the 3rd spot in global rankings of largest smartphone manufacturers as a result of massive Q4 2011 sales of iPhone 4S and then it was crowned as the highest earning mobile phone manufacturer in the world according to Asymco's analysis. Now once again, iPhone 4S, the top-selling handset in Q4 of last year, has made Apple the largest...

A new Kickstarter project for supposedly the most protective iPhone 4/4S case ever made has been recently initiated by cellpig.com. Called the cellhelmet, the case promises to offer more protection for your iPhone than any other case in the world and actually comes with a 1 year accidental damage insurance for your handset (water damage excluded). As described...

We told you about the iOSOpenDev project and now, it has finally been released. With iOSOpenDev utility, you get ready to use Xcode templates for creating common types of jailbreak tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, Notification Center widgets, SBSettings toggles, Siri AssistantExtensions & Mobile Substrate. The tool even compiles the projects into the .deb files for easy submission to...

For those who love playing games on their jailbroken iOS devices, this one is specifically for them. A brand new Cydia tweak called Overachiever has just been released which literally unlocks each and every Game Center achievement on any game installed on your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Once you download and install the tweak, a new Settings...

Koodo Mobile has just revised their Canada-wide calling packages to include Voicemail and Call Display facilities with an increment of $5/month for each price plan (via Mobilesyrup). The change has already gone live starting from February 3rd, 2012 and seems to be a pretty reasonable move by the company since Call Display and Voicemail would otherwise...

At last month's Apple Education Media Event which was held in New York City, iBooks Author was announced as a free tool in Mac App Store which enables instant creation of textbooks and resembles a cross between Keynote and Pages. An update to the iBooks authoring tool has recently gone live the Mac App Store taking it to version...

The massive Q4 2011 sales of iPhone 4S have already taken Apple to the 3rd spot in global rankings of largest smartphone manufacturers and now, another statistical analysis by Asymco crowns Apple as the highest earning mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Asymco has calculated the profit and revenue share of top 8 mobile makers and also counted...

Yet another Siri related jailbreak tweak called MyAssistant has recently gone live in the Cydia Store. MyAssistant is quite an impressive tweak which allows users to set up their own customized commands for an enhanced Siri experience. Once you download and install MyAssistant, you will be able to easily configure your own Siri commands which can be used...

Today, Apple has released a critical update for iBooks taking it to version 2.0.1 with fixes a major issue which prevented some iBooks Textbooks from opening in the application. Even though Apple has not specified the exact cause of this bug but reportedly the Textbooks launch issue faced by iBooks 2.0 users has now been fixed....

Another new tweak called Messages2PDF has just hit the Cydia store. Developed by Alberto De Luca, the tweak lets users export full SMS conversations in the iPhone's Messages.app as a PDF file. The PDF file generated by the tweak can be sent and shared via Email or saved as a backup of any important messages. The tweak...

Former Microsoft Xbox Live Marketing chief Robin Burrowes has just joined Apple as the head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe (via TNW).  Burrowes was one of the main figures behind the promotion of Microsoft’s latest Xbox dashboard update and has also worked for MSN and UK retail store HMV in the past. According to his LinkedIn profile,...

According to a fresh report (via MacRumors) by research firm IDC regarding global cell phone sales during Q4 and full-year 2011, Apple has surpassed LG Electronics to become the 3rd largest mobile phone maker. Only one year back, Apple was on the 5th spot in the largest global cell phone manufacturer's rankings just behind ZTE, but the...