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Sprint posts deeper 4Q loss on iPhone costs

(AP) -- Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in three years.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple doubles iPhone sales in 1Q (Update)

The iPhone is taking over Apple. For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones, accounts for more than half of the behemoth company's sales.

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Cricket's Muve Music tops 500,000 subscribers

(AP) -- Muve Music, the all-you-can listen music plan offered to subscribers of prepaid wireless carrier Cricket, has attracted more than 500,000 subscribers in its first year of operation.

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Four executives leaving in Sprint reorganization

(AP) -- Four executives are leaving Sprint Nextel Corp. in a reorganization that will combine the sales and marketing functions for both its consumer and business units.

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Verizon Wireless nixes Google Wallet in new phone

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless is blocking Google's new flagship phone from supporting Google's attempt to make the smartphone the credit card of the future.

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sprint pledges support to Clearwire

(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is mending fences with independent subsidiary Clearwire Corp., pledging Thursday to use the data network Clearwire is planning to build and to participate if the company raises more capital.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clearwire slammed as CEO reportedly mulls default

(AP) -- Shares of wireless broadband network operator Clearwire Corp. plunged Friday after its chief executive told The Wall Street Journal that the company is weighing whether to make a large interest payment on Dec. 1.

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cox kills Sprint-based cellphone service

(AP) -- Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, stopped offering cellphone service Wednesday, saying it's too small to compete with the big phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Judge rules Sprint, C Spire can sue AT&T

(AP) -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that Sprint Nextel Corp. and a regional cellphone company can sue AT&T Inc. over its acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's cooling strategy revealed

Insulated in a luxuriously thick winter coat, reindeer are perfectly prepared for the gripping cold of an Arctic winter. But the pelt doesn't just keep the cold out, it keeps the warmth in too: which is fine when the animals ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sprint posts smallest quarterly loss in 4 years

(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday reported its smallest quarterly loss in four years, as it continued a turnaround and kept getting better at keeping and attracting customers.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Tiny US phone company is getting iPhone

(AP) -- Apple Inc. said Tuesday that C Spire Wireless, the country's eighth-largest phone company, will start selling the iPhone 4S in a few weeks.

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created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sprint customers line up as it gets 1st iPhone

(AP) -- Apple stores got the longest lines as the new iPhone model launched Friday, but there were lines at Sprint stores too, as the carrier got a chance to sell the phone more than four years after the first ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: It's not an iPhone 5, but so what?

To some people, Apple's new iPhone 4S isn't the complete overhaul they have been hoping for. Its model number, which doesn't include a "5," reeks of the status quo.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (10) | comments 13

Sprint down after testy meeting with analysts

(AP) -- The struggling wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. said Friday that it will need to raise more money to build a higher-speed data network even as it must spend more to subsidize sales of the new iPhone to its customers.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1