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Apple receives patent for “microslot antennas”, could see improvements in wireless functionality in coming years

Your notebook and iOS device’s wireless system could be getting that much niftier. Per AppleInsider and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple on Tuesday won the patent rights to “microslot antenna” technology that allows micron-wide antenna assets to be integrated into the housing of a portable device, such as an iPhone, making them […]

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Apple releases iOS 6.1 update

You’ve been hankering after it for a while and it’s finally here. On Thursday, Apple released its iOS 6.1 update. The new operating system, a several hundred megabyte update available through iTunes, adds the following fixes and changes: – LTE support for more carriers (complete list of supported carriers). – Purchase movie tickets through Fandango […]

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Apple announces 36 international wireless carriers moving to 4G LTE networks in 2013

If you’re traveling internationally with your iPhone 5, this will come in handy. Per AppleInsider, Apple will more than double the number of carriers that support fast 4G LTE data service for its flagship iPhone 5 next week, with 36 new LTE carriers joining its existing pool of 24. When asked about “the pace of […]

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Sprint to add 28 cities to 4G LTE network in coming months

A growing network…that’s never a bad thing. Per AppleInsider, U.S. carrier Sprint announced Thursday that its 4G LTE network, which offers faster connections to the iPhone 5 and Apple’s latest iPads, will expand to 28 new cities in the coming months. The continuing deployment is part of Sprint’s Network Vision strategy, in which the company […]

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AT&T to enable FaceTime for tiered customers with compatible iOS devices

Nothing like a little competition to get the wireless carriers to try to beat each other’s offerings. That and the FCC yelling at you to do it sort of helps. Per the company’s blog, AT&T announced on Wednesday it will enable FaceTime over cellular at no extra cost to any customers with a tiered data […]