Ina Fried in Mobile on December 26, 2011 at 7:46 am PT
By failing to encrypt network commands, carriers are leaving text messages and phone calls vulnerable to interception, a German researcher told
AllThingsD.
Ina Fried in Mobile on October 6, 2011 at 8:53 pm PT
Although Sprint, Verizon and AT&T are all selling the same iPhone 4S, how a device is purchased and activated can have long-term implications on which networks the device can later be used on.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 14, 2011 at 4:42 am PT
For those who really want an iPhone 4 to run on T-Mobile, there is now an official method for doing so, though the phone can only run on an older, slower data network.
The biggest use for the pricey, unlocked version of the phone is likely to be for frequent international travellers that wan’t the ability to easily pop in a new SIM card, rather than pay AT&T’s high international roaming and data rates.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 20, 2011 at 11:39 am PT
AT&T is buying Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
To most observers, the deal will come as a surprise since earlier reports had said that Sprint and T-Mobile were discussing a tie-up of some sort.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 1, 2011 at 3:24 am PT
“The iPad team is building the best iPad for the future,” Apple COO Tim Cook said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call in January. On March 2, we’ll find out just what he meant when Apple unveils the iPad 2 at a special event in San Francisco.
Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad, according to multiple sources. As in, iPad 2! Or, as BoomTown is now officially nicknaming it: iPad Too! According to several sources close to the situation, the Wednesday date in a little more than a week is firm and will take place in San Francisco, the scene of many such Apple events.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on starting a blog, sleeping MacBooks and GSM phones.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 8, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
So those rumors that had Apple developing a “World iPad” based on one of Qualcomm’s multimode CDMA-GSM chips? There may be something to them after all. An iFixit teardown of the CDMA iPhone 4 headed for Verizon reveals a world mode chip in the device’s innards: Qualcomm’s MDM6600, which supports CDMA and EVDO network standards as well as GSM and HSPA+.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 21, 2011 at 12:44 pm PT
With the first-year anniversaries of the iPad and iPhone 4 fast approaching, and both devices destined for an update per Apple’s annual mobile device refresh cycle, the Apple rumor mill is undergoing a refresh of its own.
