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Nokia buys stake in mobile-payment company
News Previously, Obopay had raised $69m in funding, mostly from venture capital firms, though mobile-phone chipmaker Qualcomm led a $7m funding round in 2006. Nokia, the world's largest maker of handsets, supports the idea of turning mobile phones into...
[March 26, 2009, 7:26]
Nokia pleads for flat-rate 3G licensing
News Qualcomm declined comment Wednesday. They include Ericsson, which claims it has about 40 percent of the patents; Qualcomm; Motorola; and Japanese telephone company NTT DoCoMo. Handset maker Nokia wants to limit how much money equipment makers pay...
[May 9, 2002, 9:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A chap from Qualcomm takes issue with the panel's view of 3G (which is not, it has to be said, positive) and lectures us on how amazingly successful it's been in America, while the ripest piece of cheese is delivered by a chap who writes for...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support
News Freescale would not be the only beneficiary of such a shift, Burchers said, because of ARM's partnerships with other manufacturers such as Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. Freescale's new ARM processors can now support the Android and Xandros open...
[February 16, 2009, 8:00]
Tech's heavyweights go wireless
News Some companies, like UIEvolution, are benefiting from the venture-capital funds set up by the likes of Qualcomm and Motorola, inking pacts to bring wireless gaming to both companies' handheld devices.
[March 21, 2001, 7:53]
Motorola announces further job cuts
News Jha, who had been a top executive at Qualcomm, was hired last August to turn around the company's struggling handset business. Motorola announced on Wednesday that it plans to cut another 4,000 jobs, or about six percent of its workforce, and...
[January 15, 2009, 15:09]
Linux gets Bluetooth
News The protocol stack, called BlueZ, was originally a project of Qualcomm before the communications company donated its source code to the open-source world. Support for Bluetooth has been added to the Linux development kernel, a step toward native...
[May 27, 2002, 16:39]
Mobile industry gets 4G buzz
News While Sprint had been testing a slew of other technologies — including Flash OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), a technology developed by Qualcomm's Flarion — to build this new network, it ultimately chose WiMax.
[August 14, 2006, 9:00]
HP: How the mobile industry can do better
News There's a lot of work going on in converged silicon, with Qualcomm combining GSM and CMDA on one chip, for example, or Intel saying that 80 percent of Wi-Fi and WiMax circuits are the same, and that's going to be the thing for the next three years...
[February 13, 2007, 15:54]
3 unveils Facebook phone for the data generation
News The slider-style candybar — which has a traditional 12-key keypad — runs INQ's own operating system, based on Qualcomm's Brew OS. Mobile operator 3 has unveiled a phone designed for accessing Web 2.0 services such as Facebook.hopes the phone will...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
Microsoft adds voicemail alert to .Net
News The company said it will join with Avaya to provide mobile messaging and voicemail services to its customers, offer its cell phone handset software on Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) software, and support the Wireless...
[March 17, 2003, 16:22]
Patent holders on the ropes
News But Qualcomm, which is a key player with about 20 percent of applicable patents, has so far declined to endorse the plan. The news in recent weeks and months has not been good for patent-holding members of standards groups, as one industry...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
Mobile-chip firm rides IPO wave
News Competitor Qualcomm, which boosted its GPS intellectual property by buying SnapTrack in March 2000, has landed deals with, among others, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Samsung, China Unicom and Sprint.
[April 23, 2004, 13:30]
RF Micro shrinks phone chip
News About 20 percent of the world's phones use CDMA, whose patents are controlled by San Diego-based Qualcomm. Chipmaker RF Micro Devices on Monday unveiled what it claims is the smallest version yet of an integral part of a cell phone known as a...
[August 13, 2002, 8:16]
New mobile phone Java holds promise
News And competing software such as a specialised version of Microsoft Windows and Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) so far aren't contenders. Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cell...
[December 19, 2002, 8:00]
Mobile phone alliance marches ahead
News The Open Mobile Alliance believes in open standards, rather than proprietary standards like CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which Qualcomm owns the patents to, said Jerry Upton, Motorola's vice president of strategy and standards.
[November 21, 2002, 10:24]
Push-to-talk faces European challenge
News Currently incompatible PTT standards are offered by Qualcomm, Motorola and Nextel, Togabi and Kodiak Networks. Push-to-talk (PTT), a walkie-talkie-type service being offered on mobile phone handsets by an increasing number of networks around the...
[January 19, 2004, 12:15]
Nokia glitch could crimp 3G plans
News Potential hardware hang ups from Qualcomm and word of possible slowdowns on the service end from Japan's NTT DoCoMo have the industry and Wall Street on edge. Nokia is working to fix a software glitch that could cause connection problems for up to...
[April 4, 2001, 9:42]
Java-based streaming '10 times faster than MPEG-4'
News Both Microsoft's ActiveX and .Net platforms as well as Qualcomm's Brew are also supported. Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times...
[February 20, 2002, 12:36]
Sun calls up Java for mobiles
News Java faces competition from Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 operating system and Pocket PC Phone Edition, as well as from Qualcomm's Binary Runtime for Wireless (BREW) initiative. The new version of Java for mobile devices, now being reviewed by Java...
[July 4, 2002, 9:38]
