Dish Network wants to buy a cellular company, and it's not picky which. But why is it so desperate to get into mobile phones?

Yes, Nextel is still around. But not for long.

You don't know Softbank yet. But you're about to, as they're coming to America and hopefully bringing Otosan with them.

Because how much a man loves a woman in the modern world is defined solely by how elaborately and creatively he proposes to her, some random dude named Santo is teaming with Esquire and Sprint -- who are offering prizes for your suggestions -- to try to come up with a creative way to pop the question to his lady, lest she be publicly shamed by the humiliation of not having a man willing to emasculate himself in front of family, friends and countless strangers in exchange for the privilege of having the state officially validate their coupling.

We don't talk about the iPhone much on here because everybody else is happy to do so at length, and usually all of the speculation turns out to be wildly wrong.

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For the past month, I have been performing the daunting task of picking a new cell phone to replace by seemingly outdated Blackberry Curve.