Sprint Nextel may finally be getting the iPhone. The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported today that the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier will begin selling the iPhone 5 alongside Verizon Wireless and AT&T in mid-October. Gaining access to the iPhone would represent a major victory for Sprint. Selling Apple’s smartphone would put the carrier–which …

HP’s closing-down sale continues. Yesterday UK retailers dropped the price of its discontinued TouchPad tablet to just £89, and now it’s done the same with its forthcoming Pre 3 smart phone, slashing £250 off the RRP and selling it for a bargainous £49 SIM-free. Everything must go! The price cut will apply to the whole of Europe, according to the …

Nokia promises “something new on Symbian” coming tomorrow. The Finnish phone company is counting down to a surprise for its feature phone software — will it be an update to Belle? Nokia is heralding the surprise with an eye-wobbling pink and purple countdown on its Facebook page. As we feverishly type against the clock, there are less than 30 hours …

Some residents near Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., are getting the first taste of Google’s 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service. The service has been live in the market for about a month, and it will continue to be rolled out to homes in the community, where mostly Stanford professors and faculty live. The service is free to residents for the first …

While the momentum of Google’s Android platform has drawn new partners and customers, it has also attracted new threats. Security software provider McAfee said today that the amount of malware, or malicious software, targeting Androids phones jumped 76 percent since the last quarter, making it the most heavily attacked mobile operating system. In addition, the company has found 12 million …

Vodafone Australia announced it will partner with Red Bull to deliver a new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in Australia later in the year. (Credit: Red Bull Mobile) The new Red Bull Mobile service will share Vodafone’s enhanced network infrastructure, giving customers access to the new 850MHz radio frequency. Red Bull will add a range of complementary services to …

What is it about death that makes the once-living so much more appealing? Take WebOS, the mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard all-but-euthanized last Thursday. It was a decision born from the fact that HP generated nearly no business for the TouchPad, its iPad-wannabe. And sales of smartphones running WebOS, such as the HP Veer, paled next to rival handsets running …

The LG Optimus Sol is about to emerge from behind the clouds. The sun-inspired new Android smart phone, also known as the LG E730, is designed to be usable even when the sun’s rays would render most phones’ screens tough to see. The Sol gets its name because LG reckons the screen can be seen better than most in direct …

Just when you thought the legal battles between the CTIA and the city of San Francisco were over, it appears that the fight may continue. In an interview today, a spokesman for the wireless industry’s trade group told CNET that the organization is strongly considering challenging a new city law that requires San Francisco retailers to post informational notices that …

The HDHomeRun Prime is a new CableCARD TV tuner that plugs into your home network router. The HDHomeRun app piggybacks on that, letting you watch, pause, replay, and even record live TV right on your iPad. It’s pricey, limited, and a little buggy, but it works. Just to clarify, the app requires an HDHomeRun Prime, which sells for $249.99. I’m …

Last week, my colleague at CNET News, Stephen Shankland, tweeted that HTC had sent out a Facebook invitation for an event September 1 in England, France, Spain, and Germany. The company often holds fan meetups in different cities around the world to give customers a chance to check out its current portfolio of devices and to sometimes showcase some of …

Pin back your ears, phone fans: we’re hearing perhaps the most credible rumour yet about the release of the iPhone 5. No less a personage than a vice president of US phone network AT&T has reportedly told employees the next-generation iPhone will launch in early October. The top AT&T wonk told managers, “Expect things to get really, really busy in …

SketchBook project manager Chris Cheung, who spearheaded the move to build a mobile application version of the program. AutoDesk When Autodesk’s SketchBook Mobile application launched two years ago, it garnered more than 1 million downloads within the first two months, propelling the company into a completely new business. So it’s surprising that Chief Executive Carl Bass didn’t know about the …

Wal-Mart and its TracFone-powered mobile virtual network operator, StraightTalk, are getting ready to bring an affordable Android to the masses. Last week, Wal-Mart’s Web Site began taking reservations for the Samsung Galaxy Precedent, a low-cost barrier into Android’s potential. Expected to run $149.88 without a contract, it becomes even more appealing when paired with StraightTalk’s $45 unlimited voice, text, and …

Apple could be about to fill its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices with delicious augmented reality, if a recent patent application from JobsCo is anything to go by. The filing, spied by Patently Apple, describes new features that would superimpose geographic and location data over a feed from your device’s camera. That would make it much easier to figure …