nextel communications inc. and russell shaw and sprintnextel

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Sprint, is there no limit to your stupidity?

My colleague Marguerite Reardon's piece on Sprint sending out severance letters to customers who call their customer service lines too often doesn't surprise me.Just to bring you up to speed, the letters read:"Our records indicate that over the past year, we have received frequent calls from you regarding your...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, SprintNextel

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Here's why SprintNextel's CEO should be fired- NOW

A good backgrounder for this rant would be Sprints Big Pipe Dream, a piece that ran in TheStreet.com on Monday.Writer Scott Moritz uses terms such as "dismal" and "repeated stumbles" to set up SprintNextels 19-city, 4G wireless broadband intentions as a bright spot in contrast with what he-...

Tags: SprintNextel, General

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Can this merger be consummated? Dual Sprint-Nextel phones are a start but more needs to be done

For the year and a half since the Sprint-Nextel merger, the companies have struggled to combine disparate systems and technologies.Now, theyve made a tangible step forward.SprintNextel has just announced two phones that will function on both the Sprint and Nextel networks- Nextels iDEN and Sprints CDMA.Both are Motorola PowerSource phones.The...

Tags: General, Products, SprintNextel, Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications

Blog posts 2007-01-18

Why SprintNextel's COO got the boot

SprintNextel's chief operating officer Len Lauer got the boot yesterday. The reasons he was let go amount to one overarching cause: poor execution. As the Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharmer and Shawn Young note, more than a year after Sprint's acquisition of Nextel, the consumer-centric focus of Sprint and...

Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, SprintNextel

Blog posts 2006-08-23

Additional Resources

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009

There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?

Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...

Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Live Webcast: SmartPhone Security and Productivity, Part 2

Without a doubt, we're now dependent on our mobile phones for keeping up with the speed of business. And nowhere is it more apparent than in the rise of so-called SmartPhones. These all-in-one handsets are fast replacing a multitude of other devices by providing access to everything from...

Tags: Security, Webcast, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-12-02

Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?

Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...

Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-01

IT expert executed in Iran

Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business...

Tags: Information Technology, Equipment, Iran, Government, Productivity, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout

A mobile WiMax service, called Clear, will soon be here, now that Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel have completed a $14.5 billion joint-venture deal that was announced in May. The new company formed by the deal, which will retain the Clearwire name, will create a 4G nationwide broadband wireless network that will...

Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall

There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...

Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Mobiles for your users

We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be reachable in case of emergencies with...

Tags: District, Phone, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet Germany tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel Xeon chips. AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of...

Tags: Performance, Level 3 Communications Inc., Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Nehalem, Dunnington CPU, Processor Development, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, Intel, Xeon, benchmarks, processors, Shangahi, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany

News items 2008-11-24

Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?

Google is reportedly thinking about cutting deals with PC makers to have its Chrome browser pre-installed on new computers, a move that could position the Internet giant to not only boost its presence in search but also put some of its branded apps - Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader and...

Tags: Google Inc., PC, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Ed Tech in a recession

At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...

Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-21

21st-century-learning infrastructuresupported by Intel® vPro™ technology: Viglen Helps Green School Drive Innovation in Learning

Established in 1796, the Green School - located on green fields in the heart of Hounslow - appears to be a school with tradition at heart. After talking to Jack Mayhew, Assistant Head Teacher at the Green School, it becomes clear that the school not only takes tradition...

Tags: Innovation, School, Intel vPro, Information And Communication Technology, Intel Corp., Strategy, Leadership, Productivity, Management

White papers 2008-11-21

Live Webcast: Using VoIP to Cut Costs in a Slowing Economy

Businesses of all sizes are now realizing the need to not only cut costs but continue to provide infrastructure and tools to grow their businesses. Business VoIP technology has proven to lower costs while providing improved business communications. Nevertheless, there are still those who remain skeptical,...

Tags: Webcast, Business Communication, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2008-11-20

IT spending in Bulgaria reached $944 mln in 2007

IT spending in Bulgaria exceeded $944 mln in 2007, with YTY growth of 32.3%. Measured in local currency, the market expanded 20.5% YTY, according to IDC. The largest vertical market in terms of IT spending in Bulgaria in 2007 was the communications sector, which invested almost $210 mln in IT, representing...

Tags: Bulgaria, IT-spending, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Cell Phone, Smart Phone, and PDA Policy

Cellular telephones and personal digital assistants PDAs - such as Blackberry, Smartphone and Treo devices - enable fast communications, remote wireless network connectivity and more productive mobile employees. However, such devices add significant operating expenses and create additional security concerns for the organization. As such, the organization maintains and enforces...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Smart Phone, Cell Phone, PDAs, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Download resources 2008-11-19