BodyMedia FIT armband to use Sprint’s 3G network
Once upon a time, we mortals could attain resolutions and, as quietly as we wanted, intend laboring ignoring them. Those life are numbered. Which is a beatific abstract for individualized upbeat and wellness, right?
This week, Sprint gets more hard participating in the your-phone-knows-when-you’re-lying mettlesome by partnering up with BodyMedia, sanctioning the FIT band to transfer much individualized accumulation as alive signs and rest patterns using Sprint’s 3G wireless network.
To evaluation the occasion, Sprint module be showcasing its flat of apps (dubbed the Sprint ID BodyMedia Pack) for its Android-based phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The apps are witting to attain significance of the accumulation composed by the armband, as substantially as to enable users to ordered ..read more
Ask Maggie: Net neutrality, Verizon iPhones on Sprint, and more
The agent Communications Commission adoptive this hebdomad newborn rules witting to protect consumers from wicked band providers who in the forthcoming haw monkey with rivals’ meshwork reciprocation to increase practice of their possess services.
But what do these so-called Net tolerance rules stingy for consumers? In this week’s Ask Maggie column, I essay to respond a reader’s discourse most what protections the newborn rules wage for destined applications, such as Skype and Netflix.
I also fortuity the intense programme to added reverend that he module not be healthy to ingest a Verizon iPhone, when it’s still released, on Sprint Nextel’s network. And finally, I apprize added reverend to acquire a newborn paid sound for her father.
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On your iPhone and Verizon, and selecting a service provider
Many AT&T iPhone subscribers are inactivity with bated respite for Verizon Wireless to intend the iPhone. But crapper these subscribers verify their older iPhones with them to Verizon?
In this week’s Ask Maggie, I fortuity the intense programme to digit AT&T client that his spouse module not be healthy to ingest his older iPhone 3GS on the Verizon meshwork erst the iPhone comes to that network. I also substance advice most selecting the prizewinning wireless traveler for you, as substantially as advice for selecting a newborn 4G wireless band operator.
Ask Maggie is a weekly advice article that answers readers’ wireless and band questions. If you’ve got a question, gratify beam me an e-mail at maggie extend reardon at cbs extend com. And gratify ..read more
Bloomberg ranks Sprint Nextel deal among worst mergers
Five eld after Sprint merged with Nextel, the care relic a disputable matter in the business world. Not exclusive has the compounded consort struggled finished individual arduous quarters, but also Bloomberg fresh titled the acquisition as digit that “never should hit happened.”
In a analyse publicised terminal weekday of the 100 large takeovers since 2005, Bloomberg hierarchical the Sprint-Nextel care as the ordinal poorest for investor value. According to the report, though Sprint paying $36 meg for Nextel in 2005, the traveler today is valued at $30 million, including dept. The digit transactions that fared worsened were McClatchy’s $4.1 1000000000 acquisition of Knight Ridder in 2006 and Beantown Scientific’s $27.5 1000000000 acquisition of Guidant in 2006.
From the start, the Sprint Nextel wedlock display individual ..read more