Patent Watch: Apple Wants to Lock Down Your iPhone
October 5, 2009 by admin
Filed under Cell Phone Info
Apple has applied for a patent for “provisioning” services on a mobile device based on a custom carrier profile:
Carrier provisioning profiles are distributed to computing devices via an activation service during the provisioning process. The carrier provisioning profiles specify access limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be available to users of the device.
What this all means for the carriers is that Apple could essentially give them control of approved and unapproved features and applications that come on the ..read more
AT&T Says Software Update to Enable MMS Arriving Friday
September 23, 2009 by admin
Filed under Cell Phone Info
Today AT&T said that iPhone users will be able to update their carrier profile data via iTunes this Friday, September 25. The software will be made available “late morning” Pacific Time. The carrier profile update will enable MMS on …(Read More)