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DISH Launches Offer to Buy Sprint

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DISH Network has launched a $25.5 billion takeover bid for Sprint.

Sprint Buying Clearwire…uhm, DISH Has Other Ideas.

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In other cellular news, Mid-December looked like Smooth sailing for Softbank’s US subsidiary Sprint as they announced they were buying all of on-again off-again pseudo subsidiary Clearwire.  DISH just threw in a major monkey-wrench from left field, they want to buy Clearwire too for their own cellular aspirations. While Sprint wants the company, DISH wants [...]

Sprint Becomes Sole Owner of Clearwire

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For $2.2 billion, Sprint will be acquiring the 49.2% of shares it doesn’t already own, making Clearwire a wholly owned subsidiary.

SoftBank Reaches Agreement with Sprint, Which Buys Majority Share in Clearwire

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In a $20 billion deal, SoftBank will take a 70% stake in Sprint, which in turn buys controlling shares in Clearwire.

SoftBank (Japanese Carrier) in Talks to Buy Sprint?

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A Sprint Nextel press release confirmed that Japanese telecom provider SoftBank is in talks to make a “substantial investment” in Sprint.

Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360

Cali Lewis on GeekBeat Episode 455

Bitly gets a major redesign, Push-to-Talk finds its days numbered, Amazon streams to your Xbox 360, make any surface a dry erase board, and a cute and affordable hexapod robot!

Group Chat, Walkie Talkie-Style with Voxer for iPhone

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Voxer is a group messaging iPhone application that has a built-in walkie talkie feature.

Double-Vision in the Kyocera Sprint Echo Chamber

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Sprint announced a new 3G phone today that has us seeing double. Yes, it’s an old joke, but if there a time to use it this is that time. While little is known about the Sprint Kyocera Echo, we can admit it looks pretty cool. From Kyocera’s specification sheet we know this new 3G phone [...]

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