Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone," due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon').
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Planned Parenthood and NARAL are just going to lie down and let access to reproductive health legislation to be written by Catholic bishops, I guess they think that’s in the best interest of the women who donate to their respective organizations. But I wonder if Bart Stupak’s donors want to be associated with his anti-choice [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Self-taught investor takes heed of risks and rewards
Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some carriers have complained that AT&T and Verizon charge competitors too much to backhaul their customers' voice and data traffic.
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sprint Nextel Corp. has promoted Ryan Siurek to vice president, controller and principal accounting officer, effective Friday. (S)
eWeek (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The first week of November has been busy for phone manufacturers and carriers as they gear up, quite literally, for Nov. 27, the official first day of the holiday shopping season. The Android-based Motorola Cliq arrived on the T-Mobile network this week, while the Samsung Moment, also with Android, arrived in Sprint Nextel stores. The Chocolate Touch, the first of the Chocolate line with a touch-screen,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sprint Nextel on Friday announced the appointment of Ryan Siurek as vice president and controller. Siurek, 38, will also serve as the principal accounting officer. He had previously served as vice president, assistant controller at Sprint. Siurek joined Sprint in January after working at LyondellBasell Industries.
Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The deal gives AT&T nearly one million new subscribers and enhances its wireless assets.
Mass. Market (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It’s been nearly a year since Sprint Nextel’s Boost Mobile division launched its $50-a-month plan for unlimited talking and texting, and it already seems to be having a big impact in the battle over prepaid cell phone customers. MetroPCS, one of Boost’s big prepaid rivals in the Boston area, reported staggeringly slow growth on Thursday: It [...]
Mobile Tech Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With the launch of its new Droid smartphone at Verizon Wireless stores Friday, Motorola finally appears poised to recover from a three-year slide during which its mobile handset shipments fell from 22.5 percent to a 5.4 percent share of the global market, according to iSuppli. Verizon is looking for Droid to help overcome the advantages that AT&T has long enjoyed from its exclusive iPhone deal...
MobileTechNews (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are stepping up their smartphone game.
Unwired View (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As T-Mobile released its quarterly earnings and numbers today, it became much more apparent that there is a divide ever-expanding between the top 2 US carriers and the next 2. As AT&T and Verizon continue to grow its subscriber base from year to year, Sprint and T-Mobile are both losing customers. For Q3, T-Mobile lost 77,000 [...]
Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In response to Verizon Wireless' unpopular announcement that it will double its cancellation fees for smart phone subscribers, Sprint Nextel took the opportunity to say it would not be following suit. Instead, Sprint subscribers with two-year contracts will still be charged $200 when they end their agreements early. That fee -- for all phones -- will be prorated after five months into the contract...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Like Apple's initial problem with Cisco using the "iPhone" name, Google is facing its own problems using the Android name. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Google's Latest Disruptor: Free Turn-By-Turn GPS Maps (GOOG) Google Android Is Killing Palm (GOOG, PALM) Cellphone Makers Dumping Windows Mobile For Google Android
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