Stories by Usman Qureshi

Ac1dsn0w Will Get Pod2g’s iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak Exploit

Ac1dsn0w, the Mac OS exclusive jailbreak tool, is getting @pod2g’s untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak exploit as reported by folks at iDB. The news comes from Twitter user @imRel0ad who is supposedly the vice leader of Pwn Dev Team, the hackers behind Ac1dsn0w utility. It appears that the team has been in touch with @pod2g for a while and has finally...

Android’s Cool Face Unlock Mechanism Ported To iOS [VIDEO]

Android 4.0 devices such as Galaxy Nexus feature a cool Face Unlock mechanism allowing users to unlock their phones simply through face capture. But now, the same Face Unlock technology has been ported to iOS, thanks to an app created by Romanian developer Webcode, as reported by Engadget (via Boio.ro). However, this currently only works for unlocking FaceUnlock app which...

Intuit GoPayment Introduces New Credit Card Reader For iOS Devices In Canada

Smartphone payment player Intuit, which recently launched Intuit GoPayment mobile payments system in collaboration with AT&T, has just introduced an all new credit card reader for iOS devices. Best of all, the new card reader comes free when you sign up with the service and its official launch is kicking off first with Canada. The swipe card reader will sit atop...

The Apple App Store Economy, An Interesting Infographic

Last month, Apple announced that its customers have downloaded over 18 billion apps from the App Store since its launch and this number is growing by more than one billion downloads per month. For some sense of how much recent growth has ramped up, consider that the App Store took 2 years to reach its first 5 billion. This indicates that the continued sales of iOS devices,...

Samsung Takes On iMessage, Launches ChatON Across Multiple Platforms

"Chat Your Way, ChatON!" This is what Samsung is calling its latest venture to compete with Apple's iMessage and frankly speaking, its not a bad attempt. ChatON is a cross platform instant messaging app (available on the US App Store) which allows users of iOS, Android, Bada and Samsung Feature to communicate with each other for free....

iPhone 5 Will Launch This Fall, Says Analyst

According to a research note from senior analyst Tavis McCourt of Morgan Keegan, Apple's next generation iPhone handset, aka the iPhone 5, is due to be launched this fall. The analyst also believes that the iPhone will comprise roughly 50% of Apple's total revenue in the next financial quarter. With this, he is also increasing his iPhone shipment estimate for...

Epic Games’ Infinity Blade Franchise Revenue Exceeds $30 Million

Epic Games Inc. and its award-winning development studio, ChAIR Entertainment, today announced that earnings from their iOS video game franchise Infinity Blade have surpassed $30 million in just one year since its introduction in December 2010. The iOS exclusive RPG series which consists of the original Infinity Blade and the recently released Infinity Blade II, is based on...