Sprint last week completed its first successful walkie talkie call between an iDEN and a CDMA phone. A spokeswoman has confirmed that test was an important advancement in Sprint's efforts to launch ...

Sprint PCS launched its version of push-to-talk Monday that lets customers use their wireless phones as if they were walkie-talkies. Sprint PCS’ Ready Link service is the third of its kind to hit the ...

Magellan Health Services Inc. is expected to emerge from bankruptcy protection later this year. A brief item in the Nov. 17 Washington Business section erroneously reported that the company had exited ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp is gearing up to sell as many as six new walkie-talkie style phones in early 2008 using Qualcomm Inc's QChat technology, a Sprint handset executive said. Sign ...

The four major national cellular carriers in the U.S. plan to offer walkie-talkie-type push-to-talk service, which is currently provided only by Nextel Communications Inc. Sprint PCS Group and Verizon ...

(Phys.org)—Ang Cui a fifth year PhD student at Columbia University, has given a demonstration at this year's Amphion Forum in San Francisco, showing a security vulnerability he and colleagues have ...

Nextel is now owned by Sprint, which is pulling the plug on June 30. But a Bay Area start-up is hoping to scoop up some of Nextel's customers. Nextel was the first phone to act like a walkie-talkie, ...

Developed by Motorola, the technology turns cell phones into walkie-talkies by connecting to other phones without dialing and within just a few seconds. The cell phone network gear used for the ...

Cingular Wireless on Monday will launch a push-to-talk cell phone service, becoming the latest company to challenge Nextel's walkie-talkie-like technology. To date, no national carrier has ...

Phonescoop Editors: Please use "DIRECT CONNECT", not "walkie-talkie" To the editors of Phonescoop: Even though Sprint itself is stupid enough to do it, please don't use the term "walkie talkie" to ...

LAS VEGAS – Sprint PCS launched a new service in the U.S. Monday that lets customers talk on their phones as if they were walkie-talkies, taking on established leader Nextel Communications Inc. in the ...