06/01/2011
ZDNet News
Qualcomm will bring Adobe’s Flash software to mass market feature phones.
Specifically, Qualcomm said it will include the Flash Player to its feature phone chip, the 800 Mhz MSM7×27, and enable high-definition video playback on its Snapdragon processor for smartphones and tablets.
Qualcomm, which is demonstrating Flash’s broader footprint and capabilities at its developer [...]
05/16/2011
FierceBroadbandWireless
As the FCC mulls AT&T’s (NYSE:T) proposed $1.93-billion acquisition of Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) 700 MHz spectrum Qualcomm had used for its now-defunct MediaFLO mobile TV effort, representatives from the FCC, Qualcomm and AT&T visited AT&T’s Innovation Center in Washington, D.C. to witness a demonstration of carrier aggregation technology, which AT&T plans to deploy in the MediaFLO [...]
05/11/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm is providing seed money to the X-Prize Foundation to study whether a wireless health-themed competition for up to $10 million in prize money is viable.
The X-Prize Foundation didn’t release the amount that Qualcomm would be providing at this time. But the idea is to consult with experts and advisors to create [...]
03/14/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Consumer groups have asked federal regulators to block Qualcomm’s proposed sale of wireless spectrum from its failed Flo TV service to AT&T.
The groups claim that AT&T and Verizon Wireless dominate the mobile broadband market in the U.S. and selling the spectrum would further increase AT&T’s market power.
“Today’s filing calls upon the [...]
02/22/2011
Balkans.com
Haberturk – Qualcomm, known for its wireless communication technologies and mobile device processors, has opened its first office in Turkey. Turkey’s strong embrace of the 3G technology and rapid growth in the number of subscribers, reaching 20 million in 1.5 years, has led the patent owner of the 3G technology to open up shop in [...]
16/2011
ZDNet News
At Mobile World Congress, the chips that power mobile devices are getting as much attention as the gadgets themselves. Over the past week Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced new chips that look more like PC processors.
Mobile World Congress, the mega-conference taking place in Barcelona this week, is all [...]
16/2011
DNA India
AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications firm by revenue and the largest cellular operator in the US with revenues of $124 billion in 2010, is in talks with chip maker Qualcomm, which holds the licence and spectrum to offer fourth generation or 4G wireless broadband services in four telecom circles in India, according to a [...]
02/15/2011
EE Times
Qualcomm Inc. and one other ARM-based mobile SoC vendor have taken licenses to a USB chip-to-chip link that will compete with a 2.9 GHz link from the MIPI Alliance.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Qualcomm Inc. and one other ARM-based mobile SoC vendor have taken licenses to SMSC’s patented Inter-Chip Connectivity (ICC) technology, a low power [...]
02/15/2011
Register, The
Chip giant Qualcomm reckons its new Gobi chip will provide the standard connectivity that Intel planned, and failed to deliver, with WiMAX.
Not that the new Gobi3000 incorporates any new networking technology, though it does provide HSPA at twice the download rate of its predecessor while still supporting CDMA and earlier generations of telephony. [...]
14/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm laid out a road map Monday its future lineup of Snapdragon application processors that will offer faster speeds and lower power consumption than its current family of Snapdragon chips, which power smart phones and tablets.
The San Diego wireless giant made the announcements at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain [...]
