Clint Boulton

Sprint March 21 said it has begun rolling out a software upgrade over the air to let Samsung Epic 4G users upgrade to Google’s Android 2.2 “Froyo” operating system. Sprint began selling the Samsung Epic 4G, its first Galaxy S device, last August for $249.99 with a two-year deal. Like the Galaxy S devices offered […]

Amazon.com March 22 opened its Amazon Appstore for Android, offering free and paid applications based on the open-source operating system, albeit with some features that differentiate it from Google’s competing Android Market. While the Android Market lets users download free and paid applications, the Amazon Appstore will let users test applications they’re interested in on […]

Google March 21 added check-in capability for its Google Latitude application for Apple’s iPhone, opening the friend-finding program’s game mechanics to a potential 100 million new users. Google launched check-ins for its Latitude application for Android smartphones in February, allowing users to check in to restaurants and other places from their mobile phone. The idea […]

If you can’t beat ’em, might as well go down fighting. That’s the takeaway I have from Sprint’s public relations blitz Monday, one day after No. 4 carrier T-Mobile agreed to be bought out by AT&T for $39 billion. To summarize, Sprint said March 21 it would: sell the Samsung Nexus S 4G this spring […]

Among the many ins-and-outs of AT&T’s proposed plan to buy T-Mobile USA is the issue of what will happen to the carrier’s smartphone lineup. T-Mobile-which has 33.7 million subscriber’s on its GSM-based HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) network and a solid swath of 4G technology AT&T covets to build out its own LTE (Long-Term Evolution) plans-dismissed […]

Sprint answered AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile March 21 by unveiling the Samsung Nexus S 4G smartphone and pledging to integrate Google Voice across all its phones. The aggressive plans come in the wake of AT&T’s $39 billion offer to acquire T-Mobile, a deal that, if consummated, would easily make Sprint the smallest wireless carrier […]

Google March 20 said the Chinese government is disrupting the company’s Gmail service, preventing users from sending messages, marking them unread and managing their e-mail in other ways. The search engine believes the problems are connected to China’s attempts to impede the “Jasmine Revolution” pro-democracy group, which took its name from the Tunisian revolt that […]

Facebook March 20 confirmed it has agreed to purchase Israeli startup Snaptu, which optimizes applications for feature phones that lack the processing power and functionality of today’s smartphones. Israeli newspaper The Marker said the purchase price for Snaptu could be as high as $70 million. Facebook expects to close the acquisition in a few weeks, […]

Anyone who may have knit their eyebrows over Google’s $6 billion offer to buy Groupon should read Business Week’s fine profile on the company from March 17. The piece, which is longish, opens with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason testing a new service from his iPhone called Groupon Now that lets users tap a button for […]

It’s early days for computer vision software such a Google Goggles, which some analysts and even Google itself feel hasn’t tapped its true potential. One such role for Goggles could be as a vector for AR (augmented reality), which comprises the overlay of information on real-world views seen through a mobile phone’s camera viewfinder. Goggles […]

Sprint is expected to unveil a lineup of smartphones and tablets built by HTC at the International CTIA Wireless 2011 show in Orlando, Fla., which kicks off March 21. Boy Genius Report got the inside scoop from a tipster who said Sprint will introduce the HTC Evo 3D smartphone and a 7-inch HTC Evo View […]

AT&T March 20 agreed to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG, paying $39 billion in cash and stock for the struggling phone carrier to help accelerate its 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network plans. AT&T will pay Deutsche Telekom $25 billion, with the remainder to be paid in AT&T stock for T-Mobile in a deal […]