Sprint Nextel started off 2012 on a sour note, the company revealed today in its first-quarter earnings release. During the first three months of 2012, Sprint lost $863 million, or a loss of 29 cents per share. During the same period in 2011, the company posted a net loss of $439 million. Sprint generated $7.2 …

Question: What European technology company, once undisputed champion in its category, is haemorrhaging cash, customers and senior staff at a terrifying rate? The answer, of course, is Nokia. The phone giant’s reversal of fortunes in the smart phone and mobile arena is the sort of story Finnish parents will be telling their kids to scare them into doing their homework. …

Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile customers will be getting 4G — albeit the older WiMax variant — in the next quarter. Sprint Nextel is keeping its older 4G standard alive and plans to bring it to its two prepaid arms next quarter, said Steve Elfman, president of network operations for the carrier. He made his comments during the company’s earnings …

As part of its suit against Google, Oracle accused the search giant of violating seven patents covering Java technology with its Android platform. Five of the patents were dropped from the case upon reexamination by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO).  On April 22, patent No. 5,966,702 was validated by the USPTO and Oracle requested that it be allowed into the …

Starting today and lasting through May 8, T-Mobile customers can swap out their old phones (even if they’re from a different carrier), and get a guaranteed trade-in value that ranges from $50 to $200. The credit can then go toward purchasing a new T-Mobile 4G phone, such as the Samsung Galaxy S II, the HTC Radar 4G, or the HTC …

Nokia and HTC had a rare bit of good news to celebrate today. The European Patent Office earlier today announced that a patent Germany-based IPCom has been citing in legal battles with the handset makers is invalid in its current form. According to Reuters, which first reported on the story, the patent relates to a mobile device’s first connection to …

Apple’s set a date for WWDC, the company’s annual developer conference. It’s expected to lift the lid on a new version of iOS, with ever such a slight chance that we’ll see the iPhone 5 as well. The conference kicks off on 11 June and lasts until the 15th. Last year Apple used the opportunity to tell us all about …

A T-Mobile branded version of the Samsung Galaxy Note has been spied online, confirming rumors that the phone/tablet hybrid would be expanding to additional carriers. Pictures obtained by TmoNews indicate that not only is the Galaxy Note close, but also it’s bringing dessert with it. Screen shots show that the T-Mobile-branded SGH-T879 is running Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. AT&T’s …

Sprint Nextel is banking that its unlimited data plan will continue to set its iPhone apart from the others — even when the next version arrives. If the next iteration of the iPhone arrives with LTE, Sprint will continue to offer a no-strings unlimited plan, CEO Dan Hesse told CNET. The company is already sticking with unlimited for its first …

During the Oracle v. Google trial, the value of the Android platform to the Internet giant has been a subject of inquiry. When Google CEO and co-founderLarry Page was asked last week by Oracle’s attorney David Boies about the value of Android, he responded that Android is “important, but not critical.”  On Wednesday, Google’s head of the Android platform, Andy Rubin, was …

Apple boss Tim Cook said, “I’d highly prefer to settle versus battle”, signalling a possible truce in the iPhone and iPad maker’s legal warfare with Samsung and other Android phone and tablet manufacturers. Apple’s CEO continued that he’d “always hated litigation”. Nonetheless, he couldn’t resist adding, “we need people to invent their own stuff”. Cook made his pacifist statement while …

Denon is always last to announce its new AV receivers each year, but the company just rolled out its new 2012 line. Denon’s AVR-1912 was a hit last year with built-in AirPlay support, and now AirPlay is available on all but the entry-level $250 Denon AVR-1513. There aren’t many surprises otherwise, although Denon’s back panels are looking more minimalist than …

If you’re champing at the bit for a chance to own the upcoming HTC 4G LTE, it’s almost time to quench your smartphone thirst. Sprint’s registry page for preorders of the coveted handset is now live. Not only does this follow-up to the wildly successful HTC Evo 4G look like a worthy successor, it actually could outdo the legendary Android …

SAN FRANCISCO — After a brief encounter yesterday afternoon here at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Oracle’s lead attorney David Boies continued his carefully crafted interrogation of Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin. Boies placed about 40 documents in evidence to lay an intricate trail that he hopes will give the jury the impression that Rubin and Google knew …

AT&T remains the king of the iPhone, but that distinction means less with each passing quarter. The Dallas telecommunications giant sold 4.3 million iPhones in the first quarter, more than 1 million more than Verizon Wireless, and almost certainly more than Sprint Nextel, which sold 1.8 million in the fourth quarter at the height of the iPhone 4S buzz. So …