AT&T to bring FaceTime over cellular to all customers by end of year
AT&T has announced that all mobile video chat applications, including Apple's FaceTime, will work over its cellular network by the end of this year.
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Kevin Bostic
Revamped, cross-platform Google Hangouts app competes with Apple's iMessages, FaceTime [u]
Google on Wednesday expanded its cross-platform service offerings with a revamped version of Hangouts, now a standalone application for iOS and Android with a focus on video and text conversations within groups.
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Apple's patent suit loss to VirnetX forces VPN behavior changes
Following a $368 million judgment against Apple in a patent infringement case, the iPhone maker will make changes to VPN behavior in iOS 6.1.
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AT&T reportedly activates FaceTime over cellular for all customers
In a surprising move on Tuesday, second-largest U.S. wireless carrier AT&T quietly activated Apple's FaceTime over cellular for all subscribers, including grandfathered-in unlimited data users.
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Mikey Campbell
Apple's iMessage and FaceTime suffer another significant outage [u]
Users are reporting that iMessage and FaceTime are experiencing outages across the U.S., the second time in a week that services attached to Apple's iCloud are seeing issues.
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AppleInsider Staff
AT&T to offer iPhone 5 FaceTime over cellular without a shared data plan
AT&T announced on Thursday that it will enable FaceTime video calls for iPhone 5 users with any AT&T Mobile Share plan, expanding it beyond customers with its new shared data plans.
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Briefly: iMessage and FaceTime facing second outage in less than a week [ux3]
For the second time in four days, Apple's iMessage and FaceTime services are down for many users in a number of areas, with North America seeming to be the hardest hit.
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Open Internet groups to file FCC complaint over AT&T's FaceTime blocking
A trio of digital rights advocacy groups have indicated to AT&T they will file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over the carrier's decision to block FaceTime calls over cellular data networks for some customers.
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Sam Oliver
Verizon to allow cellular FaceTime use across all iPhone 5 data plans
Following the debut of Apple's iPhone 5 on Wednesday, Verizon wireless announced that it will allow all iPhone 5 data plan subscribers to use iOS 6's FaceTime over cellular, countering rival carrier AT&T's plan which limits the feature to the company's Mobile Share data plans.
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Katie Marsal
Daniel Eran Dilger
Josh Ong
