Dan Hesse at Sprint headquarters today. Kent German/CNET KANSAS CITY, Mo.–Sprint Nextel will provide more details on its 4G plans in the fall, Chief Executive Dan Hesse said during a meeting with reporters at the company’s headquarters here today. Sprint was originally scheduled to provide an update on its 4G plans by the middle of …

Booq Cobra Courier XS: Solid iPad protection Sarah Tew/CNET Carrying an iPad a year ago involved searching for the perfect bag, and the problem back in 2012 was that many bag makers hadn’t figured out the iPad yet. Flash forward to mid-2011, and the iPad 2 and original iPad feel nearly ubiquitous–so, too, do iPad bags. Finding one that matches …

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will support key Android partner HTC in its patent fight with Apple. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Stephen Shankland/CNET Schmidt, speaking at a Google mobile conference in Tokyo today, expressed confidence that HTC will ultimately prevail over Apple, ZDNet Asia reports. “We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market …

ISIS, the joint venture between three of the national wireless carriers designed to spur the development of a wide-reaching mobile-payment system, said today it had formed a partnership with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. ISIS has struck a deal with all of the major credit card issuers, including market leader Visa. Visa In addition to an existing relationship with Discover, …

A third teaser video for the upcoming Sony S1 and S2 Android Honeycomb tablets has been released, showing off the quirky slates’ multimedia abilities, including movie playback and the S2’s gift for displaying ebooks and playing games. The videos, which feature a seemingly part-CGI Heath Robinson machine (seriously, what’s the point in doing it if it’s not really happening?), have …

Cisco Systems announced today it would cut about 14 percent of its global workforce, or about 11,500 employees, as part of a widely expected reorganization. The network-gear maker expects to save $1 billion a year by eliminating 6,500 jobs, including 2,100 employees who opted to participate in an early retirement program. The cuts, which were greater than the rumored figure …

While demand for wireless devices is growing, wireless-industry workers have seen the number of available jobs nosedive, reports yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Citing stats from earlier this month from the U.S. Department of Labor, the Journal noted that jobs at wireless carriers in the U.S. sunk to a 12-year low of 166,600, around 20,000 fewer than when the …

Android stayed atop its perch as the leading mobile OS on Millennial Media’s ad network last month, though Apple continues to shine as the top device maker. Looking strictly at mobile platforms, Millennial Media’s June Mobile Mix report found Android on top with 54 percent of all ad impressions last month. In second place was Apple’s iOS with a 26 …

Watching TV these days takes a lot of forward thinking. Not only do you have to know what you want to watch and when it’s on, but you also have to pray that you can make time in your busy work/life balance to slot some boob tube time in. Connecting a PVR to your TV can help you to catch …

Prepare to slap your jingling rear end, for supermarché Asda is now the exclusive retailer of the Arnova 8 Android tablet, which costs a mere £99. Sporting an Archos design, the Arnova 8 is an 8-inch tablet with 4GB of storage, built-in Wi-Fi and a battery manly enough to handle 25 hours of music playback. It also packs a satanic 666MHz processor, …

Almost three months after it shelved a controversial cell phone radiation law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is keeping the issue alive, but adopting a different strategy for doing so. At its meeting tomorrow, the board will vote on amended legislation that would require retailers in the city to post informational notices on radiofrequency (RF) exposure and offer fact …

Just when you thought you had enough, another iPhone rumor pops up. Josh Miller/CNET The latest, courtesy of a story from Boy Genius Report today, has Apple selling a contract-free, $350 iPhone 3GS for the prepaid customer segment. The report also said the next iPhone, which may or may not feature a radical design, will be coming out or announced …

Live news coverage from CNN and Headline News is now available on mobile devices to subscribers of certain paid TV services. CNN Time Warner, which owns CNN and Headline News, announced today that its regular news channel programming will be streamed live over the Internet and available for people to view on their laptops, smartphones, or tablets if they subscribe …

A whopping 130 million devices worldwide now run Android, according to Google. The search behemoth made the announcement during its quarterly earnings call, and also said that it’s activating a mind-bending 550,000 Android devices every day. Only two months ago, Google claimed to be activating 400,000 Android devices daily, announcing that it had passed the 100 million devices milestone. That gives …

The BBC is trying to map out the UK’s mobile network coverage, by asking people with an Android phone to install an app that will send back data on how good their 3G signal is. The app is called UK 3G Survey, and it’s been built by a company called Epitiro, which will also be in charge of collating the data …