Last week, we reported that Apple had filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the iPhone5.com domain.
The Next Web reports that the status of the case, which was ‘Case Active’, has changed to “Terminated” on WIPO’s website, indicating that Apple has won the dispute.
When Verizon started offering Apple’s iPhone on its network in early 2011, it offered customers unlimited data plans. But in less than 6 months, it followed AT&T’s footsteps to kill the unlimited data plans and moved to tiered data plans.
It however allowed customers to grandfather their unlimited data plans when they wanted to upgrade to the new iPhone on a fresh two-year contract.
A couple of months ago, Apple was hit with a number of class action lawsuits which claimed that Siri’s performance didn’t quite match up to what was advertised, accusing the company of false advertising.
Hot on the heels of announcing plans to launch its 4G HSPA+ network by the end of the year and 4G LTE network in 2013, T-Mobile USA has launched a new ad campaign dubbed “Alter Ego”.
In the latest TV commercial, T-Mobile USA compares the iPhone 4S on AT&T’s network with devices on its 4G network.
Three more regional carriers in the US will be offering Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 on May 18th.
They join six other regional carriers including nTelos Wireless, Alaska Communications, Appalachian Wireless (Kentucky), GCI Wireless (Alaska), CellCom (Wisconsin) and Matanuska Telephone Association (Alaska) who started offering Apple’s iPhone last month on their network.
T-Mobile USA has announced that it plans to launch 4G HSPA+ network in the 1900 MHz band in a “large number of markets” by the end of the year. It also plans to roll out 4G LTE network in 2013.
T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest carrier in the US has not been able to offer Apple’s iPhone as their 3G network is not compatible with the iPhone.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the iBGStar Meter – a blood glucose monitoring system that works with the iPhone and iPod touch.
As the first and only blood glucose meter to be used in conjunction with the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the iBGStar allows users diagnosed with diabetes to track, record and manage important information on-the-go.
Numerous companies have incorporated Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad into their everyday services. Amtrak joins the list – the government-owned passenger railroad company.
Amtrak announced yesterday that the company’s 1700 conductors will be using the iPhone as a ticket scanner.
Apple has fixed the vulnerability that David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity had discovered last month, which could be exploited to spoof URLs in the address bar.
Malicious websites could make use of the vulnerability to spoof their domain name to a URL the user might trust, and ask for sensitive information like login credentials, credit card numbers etc.
Ever since Apple launched iPhone 4S, it has been widely debated if Apple will call the next generation iPhone “the new iPhone” like the new iPad, or iPhone 6 as its the sixth generation iPhone or call it iPhone 5, which still seems to be quite popular even though rumors of a redesigned iPhone 5 launch last year didn’t turn out to be accurate.
