Leap Wireless Taking Cricket Nationwide With Best Buy, Other Retailers

Cricket phones, including those with the company’s Muve Music subscription service, will hit Best Buy shelves this week, with additional national retailers to follow.

App Watch: A Matchmaker in a Sea of Apps

One of the frequently heard complaints about iPhone applications is that with more than 85,000 options, finding good ones can be tricky and time-consuming. Could the answer be yet another app? Envio Networks on Tuesday is launching Chorus, a free app that shows users the ones their friends are trying out and suggests ones that might interest them. The Andover, Mass.-based company, which has received funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in social-networking technology and saw the Apple device as a good showcase for what it can do.