12/02/2010
Computerworld
“Wintel” is the term that for years defined Windows-based computers running Intel chips. Now a similar expression is emerging for smartphones: “Quadroid.”
Quadroid is a term that refers to the Qualcomm chips used inside smartphones running the Android mobile operating system. The term, recently coined in a report by the PRTM consultancy, could catch on, [...]
12/02/2010
InformationWeek – Online
The basic concept behind FLO TV is cool: Use a separate network to deliver high-quality, live mobile television to phones. The reality, however, didn’t work out as planned or hoped.
Qualcomm launched FLO TV way back in March of 2007 with just one handset available from Verizon Wireless in a very small number of [...]
11/19/2010
Telecom TV
It’s about two years since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon smartphone chipset and showed off its then (and now, still) stunning speed and graphics capabilities: all this while using virtually no power of course.
That 1Ghz Snapdragon has played a big part in fostering Android competition to the iPhone over the past year or so. [...]
11/18/2010
Bloomberg News
Qualcomm Chief Executive Officer Paul Jacobs said in an interview Nov. 16 he is considering a range of options for the Flo TV business, including putting it in a joint venture or shutting it down and selling the spectrum.
Qualcomm Inc. has held talks with AT&T Inc. over the possible sale of spectrum the chipmaker [...]
11/18/2010
CNET.com
If you have any interest in what’s underneath the hood of an Android device, you’ll know what Snapdragon is. Built by Qualcomm, it’s a family of processors that are the brains inside the latest and greatest Android smart phones, including the Google Nexus One and most recently the HTC Desire HD.
Great news, processor fans [...]
11/18/2010
Giga Om
This year may be remembered by history as the debut of the highly-capable ”superphone” but if Qualcomm has any say, 2011 could bring another quantum leap in smartphone computing, reports AnandTech. The mobile chip designer introduced plans for next generation silicon at an analyst event yesterday, claiming next year’s chips will offer five times [...]
11/17/2010
SearchCloudComputing.com
Qualcomm is the walking definition of a high-tech company. It makes the brains and guts of cell phones, embedded computers; everything from the humble telephone modem to virtual and “augmented” reality systems. It’s also a large enterprise, a global concern with more than 16,000 employees and $10 billion in revenue.
Like the majority of enterprises now, [...]
11/10/2010
Korea Times
Governments should show more urgency in adopting mobile broadband and other advanced digital technologies to drive productivity throughout the wider economy, according to the head of a leading U.S. communications firm.
Speaking with Korean journalists ahead of the Seoul Group of 20 Business Summit, Paul Jacobs, chairman and chief executive of Qualcomm, also spoke glowingly [...]
11/01/2010
Economic Times – Mumbai Edition – Online, The
NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday said it will not intervene in US-based Qualcomm’s plans to sell their recently acquired wireless broadband, or BWA, spectrum to telcos, unless it infringes any rule. Asked whether the telecom department will look into the matter, DoT secretary R Chandrasekhar, on the [...]
10/28/2010
Reuters
Leading Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel (BRTI.BO) and smaller rival Aircel are in the race to buy Qualcomm’s (QCOM.O) wireless broadband business in India, the Economic Times reported on Thursday.
Qualcomm, which spent about $1 billion to buy wireless airwaves in four circles in an auction earlier this year, is looking to exit the business [...]
