Carrier IQ, the company that provides analytics software for mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers, has recently gathered attention as it has been alleged that the software is breaching the privacy of the phone users.

SCVNGR's new partnership with Sprint was announced on Tuesday which has opened further prospects. Later this month, the location-based mobile game will be automatically preloaded on LG Optimus V handsets, as per reports.

In a move that clearly reflects increasing usage of mobile data, one of the leading US carriers, Sprint Nextel, has announced its decision to make a $10 hike in the monthly fees that it charges new smartphone users.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, US carrier Sprint announced the new HTC EVO Shift 4G - a WiMax-powered slide-out handset that boasts a four-row QWERTY keyboard.

With reports making rounds for quite some while now about Apple supposedly developing a Verizon version of the iPhone - which thus far is available exclusively from AT&T -, Sprint apparently has no chances of carrying the popular handset in the near future.

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, Sprint Nextel is blocking China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE from a multi-billion-dollar network upgrading contract largely due to national security concerns, about Chinese vendors, in Washington.

In a brief interview at 4G World on Tuesday, Matt Carter, president of 4G at Sprint Nextel, admitted that the carrier lost some potential customers in the markets were 4G was first deployed, because of spotty WiMax coverage.

In an October 18 announcement, Sprint, Clearwire, and Time Warner Cable said that they are planning to launch 4G mobile Internet services in New York “later this year.”

The Wednesday proceedings at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications conference in San Francisco witnessed the unveiling of the yet another low-priced Android handset - the LG Optimus S handset introduced by Sprint Nextel.

As the reports from the folks from Android community state, the upcoming Galaxy S Pro will be a Sprint exclusive-and the vendor's second 4G phone only after the much famed HTC EVO $G.