Reaction mixed to Sprint offering new iPhone 4S

Shane Adams can relax. A loyal Sprint Nextel customer and techie obsessive, the Internet marketing manager from Olathe, Kan., had verily drooled at the rumors of an iPhone coming to his hometown carrier.

At a Glance: The iPhone 4S vs. older iPhones

Apple unveiled a faster, more powerful iPhone on Tuesday called the iPhone 4S. It's not the radical update -the iPhone 5 - that some people had expected. The 4S will be available on October 14. Consumers can begin pre-ordering ...

Cricket's Muve Music attracts 200,000 subscribers

(AP) -- Muve Music, the unlimited music plan offered by prepaid cellphone company Cricket, has doubled the number of subscribers it has to 200,000 in the past two months.

Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers

The days of waiting for smartphones to upload video may be numbered. Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their networks without ...

MetroPCS starts unlimited music plan with Rhapsody

(AP) -- MetroPCS Communications Inc., the nation's fifth-largest wireless phone carrier, is jumping into the unlimited music business behind its smaller competitor, Cricket.

Google wants to turn your smartphone into a wallet

In a Mountain View convenience store, Marc Freed-Finnegan carries a bottle of water up to the cashier, who scans it and announces the price. Freed-Finnegan touches his smartphone to a gray plastic sensor labeled "PayPass," ...

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