08/09/2011
Xconomy
Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless technology giant, launched an internal “wireless fitness challenge” almost four weeks ago for a group of its employees—testing the idea of using similar workplace competitions to promote awareness of wireless health technologies.
When vice president Don Jones kicked off the challenge on July 14, he wrote in a Qualcomm blog [...]
08/09/2011
Techradar.com
Qualcomm chatting all about the next generation
Qualcomm is claiming that its next generation of Snapdragon chips will bring greater power to phones than today’s gaming consoles.
S3 is the current top-of-the-range processor from the chip developer, with mysterious S4 ‘Krait’ devices set to be launched at the end of the year. Qualcomm has said that [...]
/08/2011
Enderle Group
Qualcomm’s Android-ready hardware and patents may be the solution to the hit-or-miss quality of Android phones and Google’s ongoing intellectual property fiasco.
Google Android has been incredibly successful, but it has also been wrapped in a series of problems. A good deal of the problems come from Google’s attempt to tear down the software licensing [...]
07/28/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm has teamed up with a private high school in Japan to launch a 3G smart phone wireless textbook project to help drop outs and students seeking vocational training earn diplomas.
The effort involves Renaissance Academy in Daigo-cho, Ibaraki, Japan. The school offers specialized and vocational training often outside the classroom. Many of [...]
07/28/2011
IntoMobile
I’ve no doubts in my mind Qualcomm is super serious about the prospects of the augmented reality technology. The company — which we usually know for their chipsets — has a dedicated R&D center in Vienna, Austria that has already released an Android SDK, allowing mobile developers to add AR experiences to their apps. Now [...]
06/06/2011
Connected Planet
As power of applications processors far outpace the power of baseband, the company finds its primary business that of a computing company like Intel rather than in its traditional radio role
SAN DIEGO—At Qualcomm’s Uplinq developer conference this week, there was very little talk of 3G/4G connectivity—a surprise considering Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is the world’s largest [...]
06/02/2011
Register, The
Qualcomm is working with Microsoft to get Windows 8 working on its ARM-based processors.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon range of chips is already powering a huge number of Android smartphones and tablets, but it seems that tablets running Microsoft Windows 8 will also be Snapdragon powered – finally breaking the long-standing relationship between Intel chips and [...]
06/01/2011
Xconomy
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), lifted the curtain today on a new partnership with Hollywood’s powerful Creative Artists Agency, setting the stage for a new generation of mobile apps that can take advantage of CAA’s portfolio of movie stars, athletes, musicians, and video games.
Qualcomm chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs revealed the new partnership today at Uplinq, the [...]
06/01/2011
v3.co.uk
Qualcomm has announced its first tri-band Wi-Fi chipset that supports communications in the 60GHz band, promising multi-gigabit wireless capability for video streaming and other applications such as wireless docking.
The AR9004TB has been developed by Atheros, which Qualcomm acquired earlier this year, and start-up firm Wilocity.
It is based on new specifications for high-speed Wi-Fi [...]
06/01/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm said this week that its Snapdragon application processors are gaining traction with tablet and smartphone makers, with 125 announced devices either on the market or planned, and another 250 devices in development.
That’s up from the San Diego wireless giant’s previous market estimates for Snapdragon, which pegged penetration at 150 devices that [...]
