Stories by Usman Qureshi

We have been hearing rumors of an Apple branded TV set every now an then for the last couple of years. A new publication by Fortune quoting analyst Gene Munster (via 9to5Mac) claims that according to Gene, all evidence is pointing to a launch as soon as next year. Among the newly presented evidence from him...

According to an exclusive report by AllThingsD, the co-founder and Chief Executive of company which developed the magical Siri voice assistant for iPhone 4S, has departed from Apple. Dag Kittlaus has led the speech recognition efforts for Apple, since it bought Siri in April of 2010. He had been Siri’s CEO since 2007. According to the report, he...

Just moments ago, Dev-Team pushed another update to Redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 5. The news came from @MuscleNerd as always via Twitter explaining that Redsn0w 0.9.9b7 for Windows and Mac is the fastest jailbreak solution for iOS 5. Total jailbreak time has been reduced to 80 seconds which was previously around 210 seconds. However, this will stretch...

Heads up guys! Everyone's favorite iOS customization utility i.e Winterboard has just been updated to support iOS 5 and is now available for download in Cydia. Jay Freeman (@Saurik) has been updating all his Cydia packages one by one to make them work smoothly with iOS 5. A beta version of Winterboard for iOS 5 was handed over...

A cool upcoming jailbreak tweak from Intelliborn called IntelliScreenX promises to bring Notification Center alerts and widgets right on to your iPhone's Lock Screen. The tweak will require iOS 5 to function and will allow users to access system toggles, read full emails in Notification Center, view upcoming calendar events as well as view and post to...

Rovio Mobile released Angry Birds for the first time on December 10, 2009. Since then, it has sold over 12 million copies in the App Store alone, and has also been reproduced for various other platforms. The game is also the No. 1 paid app in 67 countries, and is one of the most successful...

Update 1: @jackoplane updates Siri on other iOS devices will require a jailbreak. They haven't posted a video for legal reasons. Just 3 days ago, we told you how 9to5Mac in collaboration with developer Steven Troughton-Smith ported the Siri technology from iPhone 4S to iPhone 4 and had shown at on video as well. Today, another claim comes from...

The iPhone Dev-Team has just updated their iOS 5 jailbreak tool to support Windows. The latest version is RedSn0w 0.9.9b6 which brings quick iOS 5 jailbreaking to Windows and also fixes "Location Services" issue for iPhone 3GS devices running on the 06.15 baseband. Like the previous release, jailbreakers don’t need to supply the IPSW file manually...

Instapaper 4.0 brings a major update to the popular offline reading app for iPhone and iPad. There are tons of new features and significant enhancements including an all new UI with a restyled navigation view on iPhone and a grid view on the iPad edition. It is now possible to perform to search the full content...

Last month, we told you how Samsung was prepping up to fire back at Apple as soon as the next iPhone launches by filing lawsuits based on violation of basic wireless technology patents owned by them, which they believe Apple has used in iPhone 4S. A report by WSJ suggests that Samsung has already begun...

A private event held at Stanford University's Memorial Church saw Silicon Valley luminaries, politicians and celebrities along with several hundred people gather in order to pay a tribute to late Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs on Sunday. Among those who graced the event were Google chief executive Larry Page, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former...

Those who have been lucky enough to get their hands on and play with Siri's intelligent responses in the last couple of days, must have noted that Apple's intelligent voice assistant built into the iPhone 4S has a bit of an attitude. Trying to find out how Apple built Siri's quirky personality, the Wall Street Journal spoke with one...