Sprint to continue iDEN network
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Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday said it would continue to support its Nextel-branded walkie-talkie network, which industry observers had speculated the company might shutter.
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Sprint Nextel Corp.  is exploring new options for funding its wireless broadband network to soothe investor concerns about the cost, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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Sprint (NYSE: FON) is taking its mobile-data services to the next level, targeting both consumers and business customers, as the carrier rolls out the Sprint TV multimedia service and adds the popular  BlackBerry e-mail application to its portfolio.
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(InfoWorld) - Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software. The project was started in 2000 by Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi, who now works at Google in the user experience team, and has proven popular particularly because the software supports more than 50 languages. Plone helps users manage documents, files, and images through a Web interface and also lets them publish that content to the Internet or to an intranet. The latest Plone sprint is in full swing at the Boston offices of the daily newspaper the Christian Science Monitor, attracting more than 20 attendees, including one apiece from Germany and Finland and seven remote participants based in Australia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.S. The aim by close of play Sunday is to have produced release 1.0 final versions of Plone4Artists Audio and Calendar software and a beta version of the Video component. Work will center on improving how the Plone content management software handles audio and video files and images. In putting together a sprint, one of the hardest things to prioritize is what's achievable over the three or five days that the event will last, according to Nate Aune, one of the leaders and organizers of the Boston sprint. You need to take into account the skills levels of the participants and the features both they and the community as a whole are clamoring for. There have been around 30 Plone sprints since the first such event took place in Berne, Switzerland in February 2003. Tres Seaver, a senior software developer, begun to use sprints in 2002 as a way to speed up the development of Zope 3, an open-source Web application framework that's written in the Python programming language. The idea is to have small groups of developers, say two to three individuals in each group, working on specific issues over several days. Plone is built using Zope, and so it was natural for the community to also embrace the concept of sprints. Plone sprints aren't limited to coders though, Aune said. Participants with other skills, for instance, writing documentation and software testing, are also welcome. As the event begins, sprinters tend to naturally gravitate into small groups, and event organizers only have to help that process a little by doing a spot of matchmaking, Aune said. For instance, encouraging people with the same interests, say calendaring, to sit next to each other and start talking. There's "a huge geek factor" among the sprinters, Rocky Burt said, meaning there can be some social awkwardness, but in his role as Boston sprint leader and provider of technical assistance he makes sure he talks to everyone. The event also kicks off with a group meeting to define goals, and each day ends with a similar get-together where all participants report on what they've been doing. "Sprints really help the momentum of the project," Burt said. As with any volunteer-led development effort, people will lose interest from time to time, and sprints can provide a real boost to Plone as community members become re-energized about the work. That not only applies to the participants but also to other Plone users who can tune into what's going on at sprints by live video and audio feeds. Sprints vary in how they're run. Some organizers insist upon sprinters clocking in at a particular time each day. The Boston event is less formal with people rolling in whenever they choose. Typically, the day gets underway around 9 a.m. and finishes up around 6 p.m. "It can be hard to make people stop," Aune said. "You sometimes have to coax them out with food." Aune and Burt said they've learned from past sprints what tends to work and what doesn't. Having the necessary IT infrastructure in place is vital to ensure a productive environment, and that involves plenty of up-front liaison with the organization hosting the event. In the case of the Boston sprint, Aune and Burt made it very clear to the Christian Science Monitor that they needed wireless access, all outgoing Internet ports open, some wired connections, and plenty of power strips. They were also able to work through IT issues in advance of the sprint during two days of Zope 3 training Burt headed up in the same location. About half of the sprinters also attended the training. Previous sprints have called for ingenious workarounds to resolve technical limitations. At one event in Austria held in a remote mountaintop hut, the participants has to use a power generator and a satellite Internet connection to ensure they could work online. Remote sprinters communicate in real-time through a text-based channel on the IRCÂ server network. Aune noted that it's proven very difficult at previous sprints to fully integrate remote participants into the proceedings. "They tend to feel a little bit isolated," he said. In order to counteract that tendency, there's a remote sprint facilitator at the Boston sprint, an onsite individual who's constantly mediating between the physical and remote participants. Plone has held some fully remote sprints, but those events can't yet duplicate the benefits of a physical event where members of the widely dispersed community can come together to collaborate on the software, exchange skills, and get to know each other better. After the coding's done for the day, being able to go out for a beer with other sprinters can really help cement a rapport to enhance future working together whether remote or onsite, Aune said. There have been several sprints where the video feeds have also been available in Second Life, thanks to Plone developer Christian Scholtz, who's created a virtual Plone Conference area in the virtual world. In future as virtual environments evolve, Aune thinks the Plone community might use those meeting places more for collaboration. It's important to get corporate sponsorship for the sprints to cover the event's costs and also often pay for some participants to attend. The Boston event is being sponsored by its host the Christian Science Monitor and Jazkarta, the Plone-focused development and consulting company Aune heads up, as well as Friends of the Earth, The Nature Conservancy, New England Wildflower Society, Oxfam America, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The number of Plone sprints is steadily increasing with recent events taking place in Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Sorrento, Italy, and in Mountain View, California at Google's headquarters. The next sprint focused on multimedia and following up on the progress made at the Boston event is scheduled to take place in Naples, Italy, in October straight after the annual Plone Conference in the same location.
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NEW YORK, October 15  - The US-based telecom giant, Sprint Corporation (FON.NYS), has announced its plans for additional 700 job cuts in its Sprint Business Solutions (SBS) division.
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Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third-largest cellular provider, said Tuesday it will use an emerging technology called WiMax to build a new high-speed wireless network.
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Sprint said Wednesday it had reached an agreement with Northern PCS of Minnesota to acquire the company for $312.5 million in a continuing effort to appease regional affiliates that objected to its merger with Nextel in 2005.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Rumored merger talks between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. yesterday were met with a &quot;no comment&quot; from Sprint.
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DECEMBER 20, 2004  - Last week&#39;s merger deal between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. continues a consolidation trend among wireless carriers that could help lower prices and bolster
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Wireless carrier Sprint has signed contracts with Lucent, Nortel and Motorola for network upgrades, including the development of high-speed Internet services.
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Sprint and Samsung have extended their WiMax partnership with the Korean vendor being named the lead provider of infrastructure equipment for the New York market.
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Sprint Nextel said today it will move its Reston headquarters to Overland Park, Kan., where its maintains another corporate base, following America Online as the second major high-tech company in months to depart from the Washington region.
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The cellular telephone industry&#39;s game of musical chairs has started again, and the music may soon stop with one less chair. Nextel Communications is in advanced talks to merge with Sprint, according to executives involved in the negotiations.
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Sprint Nextel Corp  is on track  to launch commercial services for its next-generation WiMax  high-speed wireless network at the end of April, Chief  Technology Officer Barry West said on Tuesday.
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail and data services will be carried on Sprint's networks.
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InfoWorld - Holding focused meetings, also known as &quot;sprints,&quot; over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software.
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Level 3 today announced that it has purchased Sprint&#39;s wholesale dial-up Internet access business for $34 million in cash. Sprint is one of the largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America.