One question I’ve been trying to get AT&T to answer for some time is how its auto-authentication scheme works. Auto-authentication, which the mobile operator announced about a year ago, offloads user ...

Functionality Allows iPhone OS 3.0 Users to Automatically Connect to More Than 20,000 AT&T U.S. Hot Spots AT&T* today announced it will support auto-authentication for iPhone OS 3.0 users connecting ...

With Apple widely expected to embed a fingerprint reader into the display of the iPhone 8, the company has patented a number of different technologies it could use to accomplish this. One approach ...

Apple has filed a number of patent applications for different ways of embedding a fingerprint reader into a display, and one of these has today been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.