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Qualcomm CEO's pay jumps 23% to $21.7 million

Posted January 19, 2012 - 3:26 pm

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs received compensation valued at $21.72 million last year, according to documents filed with the SEC. His total package is up 23% from 2010, when he netted a pay package valued at $17.63 million.
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Bugs help power a smartphone

Posted October 12, 2011 - 10:54 am

How many bugs does it take to power a Snapdragon smartphone processor? Not many, according to this Qualcomm video.
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2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage

Posted June 6, 2011 - 5:26 am

The 2011 Marconi Prize, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize in Information Technology, has been awarded to two major contributors to cellular communications: Qualcomm Co-founder Irwin Jacobs and the late information theorist and professor Jack Wolf.
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Nvidia quad core mobile processors coming in August

Posted February 16, 2011 - 12:07 pm

Ah, remember just six months ago, when we were anticipating super fast dual-core mobile processors? Well Nvidia and Qualcomm have been moving along quickly--on Tuesday Nvidia not only announced, but demonstrated, its new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Netflix shares hit another all-time high

Posted February 14, 2011 - 11:02 pm

Back in late December, shares of Netflix were down 15 percent from an all-time high of 209.24 and chief executive Reed Hastings was warning Wall Street "shorts" that they were betting against the wrong company. Nearly two months later, Hastings looks prescient.
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Qualcomm, Atheros shares rise on acquisition deal

Posted January 5, 2011 - 5:43 pm

Wall Street treated Qualcomm's $3.1 billion acquisition of wi-fi chip maker Atheros as a win-win, with investors boosting shares of both companies in Wednesday trading. (Also see: New Motorola stocks rise in Wall Street debut)
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Qualcomm to acquire Wi-Fi specialist Atheros

Posted January 5, 2011 - 1:20 pm

Qualcomm has entered into an agreement to purchase chip maker Atheros for US$3.1 billion, or $45 per share, in cash, the company said on Wednesday.
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AT&T agrees to buy wireless spectrum from Qualcomm

Posted December 20, 2010 - 11:22 am

AT&T, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., has agreed to purchase $1.925 billion worth of wireless spectrum from Qualcomm.
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Android/Qualcomm 'Quadroid' alliance becoming Wintel for smartphones?

Posted December 3, 2010 - 3:37 pm

"Wintel" is the term that for years defined Windows-based computers running Intel chips. Now a similar expression is emerging for smartphones: "Quadroid."
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Network feature should extend smartphone battery life

Posted October 19, 2010 - 10:19 am

Nokia Siemens Networks and Qualcomm have tested a new standardized feature that will improve smartphone performance while decreasing network congestion, the two companies said Tuesday.
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Qualcomm to stop selling devices for mobile broadcast-video service that no one uses

Posted October 6, 2010 - 12:50 pm

The Wall Street Journal reports Wednesday that wireless telecom player Qualcomm is halting the sale of $249 hardware used by subscribers of its FLO TV mobile broadcast-video service.
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Qualcomm reveals details of Peanut wireless technology

Posted September 22, 2010 - 4:57 pm

Matt Hamblen over at Computerworld has an interesting article on Qualcomm's development of a short-range wireless technology that uses far less power than other short-range transmission technologies such as Blue
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Cloud promises savings, delivers speed

Posted September 13, 2010 - 10:09 am

In the time it takes to get a cup of coffee, any one of the hundreds of engineers and developers at mobile computing chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. can provision himself a new server -- one that's fully configured with compute, storage, networking, middleware and other resources. "You can get something provisioned within 15 minutes," says Matthew Clark, senior director of IT.
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Embedded mobile broadband: Software-defined radio makes carrier-switching easy

Posted August 30, 2010 - 9:50 am

New software-defined radio tech like Qualcomm's GOBI means you can go shopping for a mobile-broadband-ready notebook or netbook that can give you some pre and post-purchase choice of carriers.
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Two years on, netbooks on verge of big shake-up

Posted June 8, 2009 - 10:23 am

Asustek kicked off an entirely new category in the mobile computing space when it presented a prototype of its Eee PC at Taiwan's Computex trade show two years ago. Since then, the sector hasn't been a hotbed of innovation. But now, as the netbook sector enters its third year, new chips and operating systems hold the potential for massive change in the sector.
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Qualcomm shows Eee PC running Android OS

Posted June 1, 2009 - 10:12 am

Qualcomm showed off a previously unannounced version of Asustek Computer's Eee PC based on its Snapdragon processor at the Computex exhibition on Monday, including one running Google's Android operating system.
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Inventec ready to ship Snapdragon laptop in Q4

Posted June 1, 2009 - 9:59 am

One of the world's largest contract PC makers expects to begin shipping its first laptop based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon microprocessor later this year, it said Monday.
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Qualcomm offers tool to build app stores across diverse wireless devices

Posted May 18, 2009 - 10:42 am

Qualcomm software will allow developers to bring mobile retailing to nearly any device on any network, offering mobile users a uniform shopping experience.
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Qualcomm settlement good for Broadcom, customers

Posted April 27, 2009 - 7:23 pm

The deal that settled years of patent suits between Qualcomm and Broadcom is good news for consumers as well as for the companies.
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Qualcomm to pay Broadcom US$891 million in patent settlement

Posted April 27, 2009 - 8:11 am

Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to pay chip designer Broadcom $891 million to settle a long running patent dispute to end all courtroom proceedings globally.
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Qualcomm, Broadcom may be near settlement

Posted April 22, 2009 - 7:55 pm

Qualcomm and Broadcom might be near a settlement of all their disputes, spurring Qualcomm to postpone its financial report.
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Judge kills Broadcom patent lawsuit against Qualcomm

Posted March 16, 2009 - 11:16 am

A judge has dismissed a patent lawsuit brought by chip maker Broadcom against rival Qualcomm, saying the company didn't identify specific patents it was suing over.
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Qualcomm accused of unfair trade in Korea

Posted March 11, 2009 - 7:52 am

A South Korean trade commission has taken what could be a first step toward regulating wireless chip vendor Qualcomm's business practices in the country.
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Qualcomm, HP among new Symbian partners

Posted February 13, 2009 - 11:48 am

HP, MySpace, Bank of America and Qualcomm are among new members to the Symbian Foundation.
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Chip vendors bring Windows 7 closer to netbooks

Posted February 11, 2009 - 8:58 pm

Chip vendors Qualcomm and Nvidia are throwing their support behind Windows 7 OS with hardware and drivers.
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