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Senator Continues Taking Names In Carrier IQ Inquest

2:40AM December 7, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

As head of the US Senate’s privacy panel, Senator Al Franken has spearheaded the investigation into Carrier IQ’s potential violations of multiple federal statutes. Now he’s requested AT&T, Sprint, HTC and Samsung explain themselves as to what data exactly they’ve gathered using the program. They have until December 14 to respond. [Electronista]

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Carrier IQ Speaks! Denies All Wrongdoing

5:15PM December 2, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

It hasn’t been a good week for Carrier IQ. First a damning video apparently illustrating the extent of what information the program collects surfaces, then everything goes to shit. Now, the company is facing a Senate investigation for potentially millions of violations of privacy laws. And this is the response? More »

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Sprint Tells Employees To Keep Pie Holes Shut About iPhone

4:53AM August 30, 2011 | Robertobaldwin

When’s the last time anyone got tangible information from a carrier’s customer service representatives about a new phone? It’s like worrying about Army recruits sharing the launch codes. More »

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I Don’t Care About AT&T’s Manufactured Network Doomsday

4:50AM August 13, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Lately, anytime the gaping maw of US carrier AT&T opens, no matter what it’s talking about — puppies! or unlimited data (boring) or financial data — it has to slip in at least a tiny reference to how badly the T-Mobile merger has to happen, or all of our phones are going to explode and the puppies will die and go extinct forever. More »

Computing

HTC Evo View 4G: Wanna Buy A Giant Phone That Doesn’t Make Calls?

6:30AM June 24, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The running joke since the iPad laced up its shoes is that tablets are big, over-glorified phones. That’s silly! They share electricity, touchscreens, apps and rectangularity, but that’s about it. Except the Evo View, which is the joke’s punchline. More »

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Sprint Tells AT&T How To Boost Its Network Without Buying T-Mobile

10:35AM June 21, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Sprint is schooling AT&T and telling the wireless carrier how it can increase its wireless network capacity by a whopping 600 per cent. More »

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HTC Evo 3D: Oh My God Make It Stop Hurting

9:24AM June 16, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The original Evo 4G was a beautiful, throbbing monster. A huge screen, powerful guts, and features spilling out of its belt. Now what could make a giant mecha-Android better? Adding 3D powers, right? Wrong. Very, very wrong. More »

Software

Sprint Bringing Phishing Protection To Its Smartphones

3:50AM June 16, 2011 | Sam Biddle

It can be easy enough to fall into a cleverly executed phishing net on a modern desktop browser – never mind the piddling ones on our smartphones. So Sprint’s teaming up with software firm Lookout to make your pocket browsing safer. More »

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Nexus S Mysteriously Self-Deleting Photos

7:58AM June 10, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Samsung, Google and Sprint are all trying to figure out why some users’ Nexus S phones are nuking pictures without any explanation, Computerworld reports. It’s a toughie, because there doesn’t seem to be any common cause behind the deletions. More »

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Motorola Photon 4G: Sprint’s Tegra 2-Powered, International Roaming Android Phone

2:45AM June 10, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Motorola’s Photon 4G is the first Sprint phone equipped with the Tegra 2 chipset and it’s their first 4G phone to have international roaming capabilities. More »