Stories by Usman Qureshi

Update 1: Jim Dalrymple from The Loop has confirmed the date with a "Yep". Well-connected to Apple sources, he formerly busted the rumour about the media event happening on September 7th. Time to update your calendars guys as AllThingsD reports Tuesday, October 4th 2011 to be the day Apple is going to hold its annual Media Event where...

A leaked confidential document obtained by Tmo News via T-Mobile’s OneVoice intranet reveals a claim by Cole Broadman, T-Mobile’s Chief Marketing Officer, that their carrier won't be getting an iPhone 5 in 2011 after all. The legitimacy of this document is however unknown, according to BGR. Though there are still speculations that the carrier might get an iPhone 4S variant...

Just last week, we published a report suggesting iMessage integration into Mac OS X Lion’s iChat is already in the works as indicated by some unusual strings discovered in Lion’s iChat framework. Now, another report regarding iMessage support across all Apple operating systems comes from 9to5Mac (via Fusible) which uncovers a "set of three trademarks (1, 2 and 3)" all related to iMessage that have...

There have been all sorts of rumors in the recent few months pointing at a white iPod touch with possibility of a 3G antenna arriving soon, since both the latest iPhone and iPad models already come in black as well as white colors and support 3G. A couple of months back, a leaked image pretty...

Update 1: MacPost has revealed another new image of a partially assembled iPhone 4S, and mentions it is the other side of the image posted below. Therefore, what we saw earlier this morning is actually the iPhone 4S and not the iPhone 5, as the white hardware reveals. You can even see the 'connect to...

Couple of days back, @MuscleNerd of Dev-Team made an announcement on twitter regarding an upcoming major Redsn0w jailbreak tool overhaul. Today, that update has been released which brings tons of new features. Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 supports all current iOS devices except the iPad 2 and can jailbreak iOS 5, iOS 4.3.5 as well as iOS 4.3.3 among...

iPhone 5 is due to be launched in less than a month according to majority of rumors and it appears that Samsung is already prepping up to attack it with a handful of patent lawsuits. The only thing stopping them from pulling the trigger right now is the lack of official details regarding the upcoming iPhone...

Just minutes ago, @posixninja of the Chronic-Dev Team has tweeted that people interested in working for them can submit their CVs to admin@chronic-dev.com. To refresh your memory, Chronic-Dev Team is a group of iOS hackers/enthusiasts from all over the world. The team was established in 2009 and over time they have produced many jailbreak tools including the...

We all know master iOS jailbreaker Nicholas Allegra a.k.a @Comex was hired by Apple as an intern a few weeks ago. But looking at a picture (shown below) tweeted by Dev-Team member @MuscleNerd, it seems as if Apple is trying to grab another iPhone hacking genius ahead of the iOS 5 / iPhone 5 launch. He tweeted this photo during his recent trip...

Auto-part supplier Valeo has demoed their assisted vehile-parking system called Park4U at the International Motor Show in Germany, driving the vehicle with an iPhone application. The company plans to release the Park4U app in the app store pretty soon which will allow you to park your car (with Park4U system installed( even without you sitting inside it, using an...

The creator of Cydia Jay Freeman a.k.a. @Saurik, explained during his speech at the world’s first jailbreak convention MyGreatFest in London why Cydia for Mac OS X Lion has not yet been released even though he had announced creating a new version of MobileSubstrate called “CydiaSubstrate” compatible with both iOS as well as Mac OS. According to FSM, Freeman said that: People can...

A couple of days back, Chronic Dev Team member @pod2g revealed how their team was closing in on an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5 on all current devices, though it won't be released until after the public release of iOS 5. But now at MyGreatFest, the world’s first iOS jailbreak convention, another key member of his team @P0sixninja...