Qualcomm

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AT&T, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., has agreed to purchase $1.925 billion worth of wireless spectrum from Qualcomm.

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