5 O’Clock Roundup: Sprint’s disappearing promo, stem cell breakthrough (sort of), search engine optimization
Sprint announces Palm Pre promo, then cancels it – Sprint’s website sprouted a great promo offer earlier overnight: Bring your phone number from another wireless carrier over to Sprint, and they’ll give you a $100 service credit on a new Palm Pre. The offer disappeared earlier… Continue Reading
Sprint to sell Android HTC Hero in October
The new Palm Pre’s in Sprint stores are going to have some attention-grabbing competition in a few weeks. Sprint has announced its plan to sell the Hero phone, made by HTC and loaded with Google’s open-source Android operating system, starting October 11. A Hero will… Continue Reading
Wireless carriers cautiously spending again on infrastructure
AT&T customers may finally get the iPhone service quality they expected when they spent $200 or more on a phone. U.S. wireless carriers have let reporters know that they’ll be spending more in the second half of this year to add capacity. They need to:… Continue Reading
Sprint acquires Virgin Mobile, looking to grow in prepaid phones
Sprint announced today that it’s acquiring Virgin Mobile USA in an effort to bring on more customers for its prepaid mobile phones. The deal adds up to $483 million, including the 13.1 percent of Virgin that Sprint already owns.
Sprint says it will merge Virgin with… Continue Reading
Palm Pre goes on sales at Sprint stores nationwide
The Palm Pre went on sale at midnight last night in Sprint, Best Buy and Radio Shack stores around the country. Crowds lined up to get their hands on the smartphones, which are expected to be in short supply.
Palm and its exclusive wireless carrier for… Continue Reading
Palm’s day of reckoning coming on June 6, with the Pre’s release
After much public speculation about the release date and pricing of the Pre (Palm’s answer to the iPhone), Sprint announced today that it will start selling the device on June 6, with a price of $199.99 (basically equivalent to the cheapest iPhone), if you make… Continue Reading
Twitter makes its commercial debut thanks to Sprint
Twitter continues to expand into the mainstream. It’s already being used by a number of celebrities, it’s all over news channels, and its founders have even started making the rounds on various television shows like The Colbert Report. Now, Sprint has released a commercial, running… Continue Reading
Roundup: Solyndra scores major green, Windows braces for worm, car takes to the skies and more
Department of Energy shines on Solyndra — The solar company landed a $535 million loan to continue developing its technology. The New York Times has more.
A wormy April Fool’s Day — The Conficker computer worm is set to be unleashed on April 1, exploiting Windows weaknesses to… Continue Reading
Rumors of a Palm Pre launch
With one month down, the countdown until the end of the first half of 2009 is underway. Why do I say that? Because that’s the stated launch window for the Palm Pre. And some new information today may narrow that window a bit further.
Sprint, the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Zune prunes, tech gets part of the stimulus, Sprint cuts a lot of jobs and more
Here’s the latest action:
Zune prunes — Microsoft’s Zune portable media player saw its revenue decrease by over $100 million, or 54 percent, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Microsoft blames price cuts on the 30 gig model (you know, the one that had the massive failure)… Continue Reading
Palm Pre: Possibly as low as $149?
Now that everyone has seen Palm’s new phone, the Pre, and wants one, the biggest question is pricing. Initially, it seemed that Palm planned to charge more than the $199 (and $299) that AT&T and Apple charge for the iPhone, since Palm’s chief executive Ed… Continue Reading
Text messaging further exposed as a colossal rip-off
I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am that The New York Times decided to take on the colossal rip-off that is text messaging in a story this weekend. Text messaging is a great service, but it should be included for free with… Continue Reading
Sprint unboxes free Pandora across its network
Us iPhone users are spoiled: We get to listen to Pandora’s streaming web music for free thanks to its brilliant application (the top downloaded app for all of 2008 in the App Store). Owners of other devices, on other networks, haven’t been so lucky, as… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo cuts data retention, Sprint pushing WiMax and more
Here’s the latest action:
Yahoo cuts data retention to 90 days — The search company’s new policy will likely push Google and Microsoft toward similar reductions in the amount of time they keep user data.
Sprint plans first WiMax device for Dec. 21 — The first device that will… Continue Reading
Interview with Arvind Sodhani: Intel Capital isn’t backing off on venture
Arvind Sodhani is one of those investors who isn’t blinking. But he’s not your typical venture capitalist. Sodhani is the chief of Intel Capital, the venture arm of the world’s biggest chip maker. He just closed on a billion-dollar investment in Clearwire, a provider of… Continue Reading
Microsoft goes for The Guild
The Guild, the popular web series, premieres its second season today with a Microsoft twist — the episodes will be distributed through Microsoft’s platforms of XBox 360 Live, MSN and Zune. The deal between series creator/producer Felicia Day and Microsoft was announced on Monday.
The comedy… Continue Reading
With the iPhone 3G around the corner, Google Android sees delays
Were you considering holding off on getting Apple’s new iPhone 3G until you saw what Google would be offering with its Android platform? Well, hopefully you can afford to wait a while.
Though it’s still technically the 2nd half of 2008, Google is now indicating that… Continue Reading
Roundup: AP inserts foot in mouth, Tesla looks for another $100M, Zawodny lands at Craigslist and more
Here’s the latest action:
The AP tries to set a new standard, doesn’t follow it — The Associated Press wants bloggers to pay it for quoting excerpts of its stories, and is threatening to sue if they don’t. Of course, that position is kind of hard to… Continue Reading
Why it’s too early to call the WiMax deal a disaster
Updated
Well, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld certainly isn’t pulling his punches. Last week, while most reporters (including me) were writing enthusiastically about the new partnership between Sprint and Clearwire to build a mobile wireless network using WiMax technology, Schonfeld slammed the deal as “a disaster waiting to… Continue Reading
It’s official: Sprint teams up with Clearwire for wireless partnership
Sprint and Clearwire have confirmed yesterday’s reports that they’re teaming up to create a new wireless broadband company. The new company, which will also be called Clearwire, should be the first to create a national mobile network using Intel’s WiMax technology, delivering broadband Internet at… Continue Reading