GigaomApple patent granted to geofence and track cellular dead zones from iPhones
First filed four years ago, Apple was granted a patent to track and geofence cellular dead zones, capturing the information in a crowdsourced database. Read more »
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First filed four years ago, Apple was granted a patent to track and geofence cellular dead zones, capturing the information in a crowdsourced database. Read more »
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