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T-mobile Friday released a carrier software update for unlocked iPhone 5 units that enables 4G LTE, 4G HSPA+, visual voicemail, the 4G network indicator, the commercial mobile alert system, and auto configures several carrier settings. The release confirms a rumor released earlier this week from TmoNews.

The update can be installed through iTunes, or via an OTA (over the air) ...

Capping off a busy week of legal news for Apple and Samsung, the latest filing by the South Korean tech behemoth with the U.S. International Trade Commission is bringing to light critical details regarding Samsung's request for a market ban on certain Apple products.

According to FOSS Patents, Samsung has indicated that Apple's alleged patent violations largely apply to previous generations ...

On Friday, chief Apple rival Samsung pre-announced its Q1 earnings and Wall Street was impressed.

According to details emerging this afternoon, the South Korean tech giant confirms sales of approximately $46 billion, 15% higher than earnings from one year ago in Q1 of 2012.

Most importantly, Samsung's operating profit was $7.7 billion, besting Wall Street expectations with 53% growth ...

According to published reports Friday, Samsung Electronics has apparently infringed a key portion of an Apple patent.

An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge said in a preliminary decision that the infringement results from Samsung's inclusion of a text-selection feature in its smartphones and tablets.

Coverage of this development form Reuters indicates, however, that Samsung did not infringe ...

Apple and T-Mobile have both begun pre-orders for the iPhone 5 as previously announced. The launch date for the iPhone 5 is scheduled for April 12th which is coming up just one week from today. If you’re eager to hop on the bandwagon, now’s your chance!

As many of you probably already know, T-Mobile is the last of the four major carriers in the United States to start selling the iPhone ...

Motorola recently won a ruling from the country’s Federal Patent Court, which found all claims of Apple’s “slide to unlock” user interface property invalid, though the decision can be appealed. According to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, the parties affected by the ruling, which included Apple, Google, and Samsung, all knew the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany’s Federal Court of Justice) was likely ...

Recent reports claim Apple is close to making a deal with two major record companies to stream their respective tracks on a purported “iRadio” music streamer, with the arrangement said to be more lucrative for labels than existing rates paid out by Pandora. Citing people who seem to be familiar with the situation, CNET reports that Apple’s supposed deal will offer cheaper per-stream rates equivalent to about half ...

During the unveiling of Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg said that the “openness” of Google’s Android platform is what made the Home experience possible. What wasn’t mentioned was the fact that due to the fragmented nature of the Android market, nearly half of all Android users won’t even be able to run its new Home feature to begin with.

Facebook Home won’t run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread or lower, a ...

Both Best Buy and Samsung recently confirmed that they are teaming up to bring Samsung mini-stores to more than 1,400 Best Buy locations in a similar fashion to the way the locations feature miniature Apple Stores inside. The confirmation recently came in the form of a press release issued by Samsung that stated that the two companies would be partnering to bring Samsung Experience Shops to Best Buy locations ...

On Thursday, comScore released the latest data from the comScore MobiLens service for the three month average period ending this past February. To conduct its most recent analysis, comScore surveyed 30,000 mobile subscribers in the United States.

All told. 133.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (57 percent mobile market penetration) by the close of February, which represents ...

If you’ve ever done a respring, or a reboot, then you might be familiar with the way that the Apple logo appears until your lock screen finally appears. It’s simply that – a boring, non-animated, Apple logo.

A new jailbreak tweak called Beacon by iOS developer Evan Swick enables the animated Apple boot animation that appears on the display the first time you turn on your iOS device after a fresh restore. This way, you’ll see this awesome animated Apple logo right ...