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Despite Answering 30 Percent More Questions This Quarter, U.S. Brands Trail the Rest of the World in Social Responsiveness NEW YORK, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to social media responsiveness, DISH along with telecom brands T-Mobile and Boost Mobile topped the U.S. rankings, according to the Q1 2013 "Socially Devoted" report from Socialbakers out today. Each quarter, the Prague-based social media analytics company calculates which brands around the world are most...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The nation’s largest wireless carrier is looking to attract prepaid customers with a new, no-contract plan. For $35 a month, users will receive 500 anytime minutes of talk as well as unlimited text and Internet. As with other prepaid plans, this is aimed at users who don’t engage in prolonged gabfests. Users who exceed the 500 monthly minutes will face charges of 25 cents per minute. This new plan was first reported by...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Cisco announced yesterday that they had picked up UK-based femtocell makers Ubiquisys for $310 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, this sum will be partly paid in cash and partly in incentives to retain the 130-member team who will keep their offices in the UK. This deal is expected to close in Cisco’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. Femtocells are small antennas which help boost mobile service coverage indoors....

NEW YORK and OVERLAND PARK, Kan., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. introduced Galaxy S(®) 4, successor to the award-winning Samsung Galaxy S III. Sprint (NYSE: S) will offer the U.S. variant of Galaxy S 4 in the second quarter of this year. Fared Adib, senior vice president-Product Development at Sprint, issued the following statement: "Sprint is excited to bring the benefit of Truly Unlimited(SM) 4G LTE data to the U.S. variant of Galaxy S 4 in...

Sprint demonstrates impressive commitment to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, use of renewable energy, and recycling of cell phones to reduce their impact on the environment. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the mobile and wireless market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Sprint with the 2012 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Green Excellence. Sprint, currently the third-largest mobile operator in the United...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, today announced a seven-year extension through January 2021 of its relationship with Sprint, one of North America's leading service providers. Amdocs will continue to manage key business processes, including billing, customer care and IT infrastructure management under a managed services model hosted at an Amdocs data center. The new agreement includes the...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Sprint (NYSE:S) will be the first U.S. mobile carrier to offer an innovative new service, called StarStar Me, that lets customers use a name they choose in place of their mobile telephone number. Imagine meeting someone and instead of telling them 10 hard-to-remember digits, giving them your own memorable mobile number, like **SARAH (**72724) or **CHLOE (**24563). StarStar Me allows consumers to...

New Content Featured on www.NSTeens.org Teaches Online Safety to Kids Ages 8 to 12 ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today that their free Internet-safety site, www.NSTeens.org, has been expanded to help tweens (8-12 year olds) start the school year right. The new content available today includes: "Stop That Post...Again!" is a game where players race to stop...

NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Currently most campaigns against texting and driving use scare tactics to get young people to change their behavior. However, even though car accidents are the number one killer of teenagers in this country and teens are most likely to be in a distracted driving car accident because of a phone, scare tactics are not always effective. DoSomething.org, the nation's largest organization for teens and social change, founding partner...

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ubiquity is thrilled to announce Steve Stanford has joined the advisory board, adding to an already impressive team of industry leaders. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120328/LA78436LOGO-b) Steve is a serial entrepreneur in the fields of consumer Internet, telecommunications, and entertainment. He has founded or co-founded companies that have raised over $500 million in funding, and collectively generated billions of...