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Your Phone Knows Where You Are, and Always Will. Get Used to It.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm PT

There’s no point in getting fired up over the disclosure that iPhones keep track of where you go. It’s not something new, it’s not secret, and it’s probably never going to stop. Why? Because the data is so valuable.

iPhone Strains O2′s London Network

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 29, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

AT&T, O2 feels your pain. It too has seen its network overtaxed by Apple’s iPhone, particularly in London, where a massive surge in data traffic has been causing network congestion since the summer.

Usage-Based Data Pricing: The Solution to AT&T’s iPhone Problems?

John Paczkowski in News on December 2, 2009 at 5:15 am PT

According to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, the average iPhone user consumes five to seven times the monthly bandwidth of the average wireless voice subscriber and at least twice the amount of the typical smartphone phone user. With usage levels like these and the network degradation and customer dissatisfaction issues that go along with them, is it reasonable to think that iPhone carriers like AT&T will swap their all-you-can-eat data plans for usage-based pricing? Sacconaghi thinks so.

Who Rejected Google Voice for iPhone? AT&T: Not Us. Google: REDACTED. Apple: We're "Studying" It, Not Rejecting It.

John Paczkowski in News on August 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm PT

“Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it.” So begins Apple’s response to the FCC’s inquiry into its rejection of the app and of its App Store approval process. Seems Google Voice was withheld from the App Store not because of any ill feeling toward Google or a nefarious request from AT&T, but because it too closely mimics the iPhone OS.

Who Rejected Google Voice for iPhone? AT&T: Not Us. Google: REDACTED. Apple: We’re “Studying” It, Not Rejecting It.

John Paczkowski in News on August 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm PT

“Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it.” So begins Apple’s response to the FCC’s inquiry into its rejection of the app and of its App Store approval process. Seems Google Voice was withheld from the App Store not because of any ill feeling toward Google or a nefarious request from AT&T, but because it too closely mimics the iPhone OS.

A Little Cheese With That Whine, Comcast?

John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm PT

As predictable as day following night, litigation has followed the Federal Communications Commission’s sanctions against Comcast. In a long-expected action, Comcast sued the commission today claiming the FCC had no legal grounds on which to punish it for throttling file-sharing traffic on its network.