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  • BlackBerry outages hit Europe, Middle East and Asia

    Some BlackBerry users throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia experienced outages or delays for about 12 hours Monday, and appeared to be experiencing a second outage today, according to Twitter feeds from carriers in the U.K. and Egypt and other reports.

  • Sprint speeds LTE rollout, now starting in mid-2012

    Sprint officials today announced an accelerated rollout of LTE wireless technology on Friday -- and said that it will continue to support its millions of Wimax smartphone and device customers beyond 2012.

  • Sprint says it's ready for iPhone's traffic

    Sprint officials told analysts Friday that the carrier is ready to handle the increased data demand from its sales of the iPhone as the carrier continues a nationwide network consolidation project called Network Vision.

  • Sprint could get 2M upgrades to iPhone 4S

    Sprint has a lot to gain by selling the new iPhone 4S starting Oct. 14, including new customers attracted to Sprint's unlimited data plans and up to 2 million existing customers likely to upgrade to Apple's latest smartphone.

  • If Sprint becomes third iPhone carrier, how much does it gain?

    Apple is expected to <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/19007/apple_confirms_october_4_iphone_5_event">announce the iPhone 5</a> tomorrow, and wireless carrier Sprint is expected to soon begin selling a version of the iconic <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/75/Smartphones">smartphone</a> for the first time.

  • Intermec offers mobile management update

    Intermec, which has made a name for itself over four decades as a provider of <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9186559/Intermec_launches_smartphone_sized_rugged_mobile_handheld_computer">rugged mobile devices</a> mainly for service delivery and warehouse use, is moving quickly into mobile management software and services.

  • Full-Duplex Boosts Network Traffic

    Rice University researchers have developed full-duplex wireless technology that they say could double network traffic -- at a low cost, with little need for new hardware and without much disruption in service.

  • AT&T's Houston LTE network offers good speeds, study finds

    AT&amp;T's new Houston LTE network offers users' high data speeds, but poorer-than-expected network latency, according to an independent evaluation by Signals Research. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220089/AT_T_s_LTE_network_to_launch_Sunday_in_5_cities_">AT&amp;T launched</a> LTE networks in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago and Atlanta on Sunday.

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