Categories
iPhone Legal Mobile Phone News wireless

FCC investigation finds that “one or more” wireless carriers may have sold user location data to questionable third-parties

This’ll make you groan a bit. Following last year’s findings as to how easy it was for outside parties to buy real-time location data of US wireless customers via lax carrier standards, it was noted that data was winding up in the hands of shady third-parties, and bounty hunters. Now, after what it described as […]

Categories
Apple Apps Mac macOS News Software

Fantastical updated to 3.0.1, adds fixes, addresses crashes

Fantastical is nifty. And it’s been updated of late. Fantastical, which functions as a hyper-powered calendar, can be activated with either a single click or keystroke. The application features a natural-language engine, allowing you to write in your own style. Other cool features include a location engine that locate the user and allow you to […]

Categories
Apple FaceTime HomePod iOS iPad iPadOS iPhone iPhone News privacy security Siri Software

Apple releases iOS 13.3.1, iPadOS 13.3.1 updates

Over on the mobile end of things, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 13.3.1 updates on Tuesday. The updates offer the following fixes and changes: Fixes an issue in Communication Limits that could allow a contact to be added without entering the Screen Time passcode. Adds a setting to control the use of location services by […]

Categories
5G Wireless Hardware iPhone News wireless

T-Mobile 5G network boasts 200 to 400 percent speed improvements over company’s 4G LTE, location and pricing remain points of contention

If you were looking for some benchmarks as to T-Mobile’s newly-launched 5G network, the cool cats at Venturebeat have some numbers for you. During testing, the low-band 5G downloads peaked at 227Mbps, or two to four times faster than T-Mobile’s LTE service at the same locations, and far higher than the aforementioned 20 percent estimate. […]

Categories
Apple Apps iOS iPhone Mac News Software

New Apple Maps data, more details maps, begin surfacing in northeastern U.S., along eastern seaboard

Roughly one year ago, Apple announced a huge change to its Maps app, stating that the company was completely overhauling its fundamental map data. The new data would expand upon what was there, now including buildings, rivers, roads, and vegetation in a vastly more accurate and detailed form. Apple began rolling out the new mapping […]