News tagged with cellular carrier

Apple's iMessage texting service takes aim at wireless carriers

With its latest operating system update, Apple Inc. is poised to strike a blow to wireless carriers by making free texting more ubiquitous.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Apple applied for a patent to collect the location history of iPhone users in 2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- Apple has recently published a patent application, which indicates the company may have plans to collect the location history of iPhone users. Right now, it is not clear if this is related to the recent discovery ...

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...

Technology / Software

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U r pwned: text messaging paves way for hacking

(AP) -- Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can't stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New e-book reader to use AT&T network

(AP) -- Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, another e-book reader is set to get a wireless connection from a cellular carrier, letting it access books anywhere there's a signal.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Verizon offers small carriers fresher handsets

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless is offering small cellular carriers a chance to get new phone models faster.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Verizon Wireless to carry Android, Pre phones

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless will introduce phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software "in the near future," its chief executive said Thursday.

Technology / Telecom

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0