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How Do You Solve a Problem Like a GeekPhone? Sprint’s Android Makeover

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 15, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

While much of the early marketing around Android touted its power and all the ways you could trick out the devices, Sprint has launched a new effort to more easily tailor Android phones to non-techies. Its latest step: A partnership with MTV.

CES: The View From Here

Beth Callaghan in News on January 8, 2010 at 1:08 pm PT

It may seem like the whole AllThingsD.com crew is in Las Vegas reveling in the nightlife/nerdlife, but some of us actually stayed behind to take advantage of reliable connectivity, good coffee and natural daylight. Oh, and also to hold down the fort in case of an earthquake or other natural disaster. Now that’s some good thinking.

Why Advertising Still Doesn’t Work: Sprint Tries Its Hardest To Sell Me an iPhone

Peter Kafka in Media on June 16, 2009 at 9:17 am PT

I’m a Sprint customer, so the wireless company knows where I live, how to find me online, what kind of phone I have and what I spend each month. And it knows my contract expires at the end of the month. So why isn’t it trying hard to keep me from the clutches of AT&T and its iPhone?

Sanyo Earnings Unable to Hold a Charge

John Paczkowski in News on March 24, 2009 at 6:05 am PT

More ugly news from the Japanese electronics industry today. Sanyo Electric, the world’s largest producer of rechargeable batteries, this morning slashed its earnings forecast for the second time in as many months.

Meet "Kevin the Sad PR Guy," Our 2009 Booth Babe

John Paczkowski in News on December 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm PT

The International Consumer Electronics Show will kick off next week shrouded in a nimbus of recessionary gloom. Show attendance is expected to be down eight percent this year, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who expects 130,000 attendees to flood the convention this year–11,000 fewer than last year.

Meet “Kevin the Sad PR Guy,” Our 2009 Booth Babe

John Paczkowski in News on December 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm PT

The International Consumer Electronics Show will kick off next week shrouded in a nimbus of recessionary gloom. Show attendance is expected to be down eight percent this year, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who expects 130,000 attendees to flood the convention this year–11,000 fewer than last year.

CES 2009: Three Booths and a Clapping Toy Monkey?

John Paczkowski in News on December 5, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

If a global manufacturer of computer hardware like Belkin’s not exhibiting at CES, who is? I posed that question jokingly earlier this morning, but turns out there’s a very real and ugly answer to it: Not Seagate. Not Logitech. Not Cisco. Not Philips. Not Yahoo. And not Sanyo, either.