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Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 26 Nov 2007 06:01 PM PST
Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) court case against Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the UK in the High Court was due to start on Monday, with Qualcomm seeking an injunction that would stop…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 25 Nov 2007 05:10 AM PST
Broadcom has said it would seek an injunction against Qualcomm preventing it from making, using, selling or developing cellular chips based on contested patents in WCDMA and EV-DO cellular chips,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Nov 2007 05:27 PM PST
Another round goes to Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) in its patent battles...sort of. The US International Trade Commission has dropped a lawsuit by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) asking it to ban Qualcomm’s…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 Nov 2007 07:58 AM PST
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has announced it will buy Atlanta-based mobile banking provider Firethorn Horldings for about $210 million in cash. The deal is expected to close within 30 days, subject…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 Nov 2007 05:30 PM PST
There is more on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) various patent battles in its conference call (transcript). Aside from the irony of apparently complaining that Broadcom is trying to do to Qualcomm…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 Nov 2007 04:23 PM PST
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) released its Q307 earnings results, bringing in $2.31 billion in revenue for the quarter, an increase of 15 percent year-on-year and a fall of 1 percent sequentially.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 Nov 2007 09:39 AM PST
It’s official, but it’s not the ‘Gphone’ - yet. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt just finished fronting a conference call to announce the rumored Open Handset Alliance,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 25 Oct 2007 08:43 PM PST
Not really a surprise: giving launch dates, or even months, for such big and high-infrastructure-dependent services is probably a bad idea to start with. AT&T (NYSE: T) is delaying the…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Fri 12 Oct 2007 05:43 AM PST
When AT&T (NYSE: T) earlier this week made a $2.5 billion offer for assets from Aloha Partners, the deal didn’t just include 700MHz spectrum in 72 of the top 100…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 04 Oct 2007 03:49 PM PST
Moconews.net caught up with Mike Yuen earlier this week at the Mocollywood mobile content conference in London. Mike’s been with Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) for the past six years and has…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 03 Oct 2007 01:42 PM PST
Well, it seems there were big ambitions, but a small turnout, for this week’s Mocollywood mobile entertainment conference in London. Here are some items I took note of during some…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 01 Oct 2007 04:07 PM PST
The European Commission will look into allegations by Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), Broadcom, NEC and Panasonic that Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has “violated European Union rules by charging disproportionate…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 13 Sep 2007 01:49 AM PST
Judge Haldane Mayer on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to stay a ban on importing certain mobile phones using Qualcomm chips that was ordered…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 30 Aug 2007 03:20 PM PST
Qualcomm has landed another potential customer of its MediaFLO technology, announcing a technical trial with Malaysian carrier Maxis Communications and broadcaster Astro All Asia Networks. “Expected to begin in the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 29 Aug 2007 04:34 PM PST
MediaFLO and Verizon are touting the availability of more than 100 live and full-length college football games on the V CAST Mobile TV service. The games will be spread across…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 29 Aug 2007 12:53 PM PST
Dan Novak, who has long been the public face of MediaFLO at industry events (as the VP of Programming and Advertising) has moved out of the Qualcomm division, and is…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 22 Aug 2007 06:53 AM PST
Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) is considering forming a joint venture with Taiwanese companies for a MediaFLO service in the country, reports DigiTimes Telecom."A market research conducted by Qualcomm in Taiwan indicated…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 17 Aug 2007 08:22 AM PST
Big Brother 8 will be broadcast on a dedicated channel on the Verizon VCast Mobile TV service continuosly for the last four weeks of the show. This is in addition…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 17 Aug 2007 02:18 AM PST
Now Nokia has asked the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the import of some Qualcomm chips, claiming they infringe five Nokia patents. I don’t know whether the handset…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 15 Aug 2007 06:04 AM PST
Qualcomm and Broadcom are back in the court room arguing over another set of Broadcom patents, covering video compression for mobile phones, walkie-talkie style wireless technology, and simultaneous communication between…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 07 Aug 2007 01:16 AM PST
President Bush’s administration has said that it will not veto a decision by the International Trade Commission that imposes a ban on importing some new 3G handsets that use Qualcomm…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 27 Jul 2007 01:53 AM PST
BusinessWeek has a good post about the mobile TV wars in the US, which it says has come down to MediaFLO vs MobiTV. I think it’s a bit early to…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 26 Jul 2007 04:12 PM PST
Qualcomm is trying something which could add a bit of flexibility to its MediaFLO service—a temporary channel. MediaFLO doesn’t offer as many channels as it is technically capable of, and…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jul 2007 01:15 PM PST
Crediting demand that led to the shipping of 65 million CDMA chipsets during the quarter, Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) posted higher income for Q2 of $798 million, up 24 percent year-over-year…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 23 Jul 2007 02:27 AM PST
Adding to its patent woes in the US, Qualcomm received a setback in Europe, too, last week, when the European Commission endorsed DVB-H—and not Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology—as the single standard…
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