BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A strong discussion has started in Argentina about what platforms will prevail in Latin America. On the one hand, the 3G Americas organization maintains that GSM will be the most popular mobile technology in Latin America by 2006, when it will reach...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless enterprise company Wireless Knowledge, a Qualcomm Inc. subsidiary, confirmed it acquired the majority of rival Mobilocity's assets, including some of the company's top executives, intellectual properties and its wireless research and development facility."We are very pleased to have rolled up Mobilocity into...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. and Summus Inc. launched ZIO Interactive's Nineball billiard game on Verizon Wireless' network. The game is powered by Summus' BlueFuel architecture and runs on Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform.
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-The whole world is watching to see which standard-GSM or CDMA-will succeed as the 3G battle revs up in the United States, said Probe Research Inc., but the seemingly inevitable deployment of third-generation wireless networks is hitting a brick wall in some...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Analyst predictions of a groundswell in wireless gaming seem to be coming true, with a variety of companies making gaming-related announcements.Perhaps the most important news comes from Sprint PCS, which is continuing to expand its application portfolio for its new Vision network....
TOKYO-Hitachi, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is going to provide cdma2000 1x EV-DO base stations to KDDI, Hitachi announced on Thursday. KDDI is planning to launch experimental 1x EV-DO services in April and commercial services in the fourth quarter of 2003 in Japan.According...
SAN DIEGO-CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. said it is now a sponsor member of the newly formed standards group Open Mobile Alliance, and also sits on the group's board of directors."Qualcomm has consistently maintained an active presence in standards initiatives in the wireless space and...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it posted a third-quarter loss of $13.7 million, although it beat the market expectation.The company's earnings took a beating from its charges, which amounted to $194 million. Excluding one-time items, Qualcomm posted a profit of $193.5 million or 24 cents...
CAMPBELL, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., announced it has concluded its second annual gpsOne Carrier Workshop where representatives for 18 CDMA carriers from North America, Asia-Pacific and Latin America met to review gpsOne-based wireless location solutions.E911 deployment and location-based services...
SAN DIEGO-CDMA proprietor Qualcomm Inc. said it expects to meet the high end of its third-quarter estimates both in earnings per share and phone chip shipments.The company had anticipated pro forma EPS of between 21 cents and 23 cents, while it forecast between 15...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has placed what it described as the world's first live wideband CDMA and GSM calls using its complete radioOne direct conversion radio-frequency dual-mode solution."These calls represent the world's first multimode, multi-band wireless phone calls made on a handset with...
SAN DIEGO—Software giant Oracle Corp. said it will work with Qualcomm Inc. to extend its 9i Lite database to BREW-based wireless devices.Oracle is one of several large technology companies to announce support for Qualcomm's platform.Separately, Sony Online Entertainment announced it will develop games for...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. released the line-up of sponsors, speakers and exhibitors for its upcoming BREW Developers Conference in San Diego.Qualcomm said its own Paul Jacobs, group president of the company's Wireless & Internet Group, and Stewart Alsop, experienced investor and pundit, will make keynote...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. reiterated its outlook for the third quarter and the rest of 2002 on the assumption of improved sales for its chipset.The company said it expects its third-quarter pro forma revenue to increase by about 3 to 6 percent compared with the...
CHICAGO—ALK Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. have partnered to interface ALK's FleetCommander product with Qualcomm's OmniTRACS mobile communications system to provide a homeland security solution, focused on creating a safe environment for transportation companies and their customers.OmniTRACS offers tracking of fleets of vehicles, communications...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. has signed a royalty-bearing agreement to allow Westech Korea Inc. to design, develop and sell mobile subscriber units and knockdown kits for cdmaOne and cdma2000 1x/1xEV-DO systems."As part of the agreement, Qualcomm is taking an equity investment in Westech Korea in...
NEW DELHI, India—Indian GSM players this week renewed their attempts to stall the rollout of CDMA services—under the name of "limited mobility" wireless local loop (WLL)—by fixed service providers, by approaching courts to quash the government decision.The Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) and...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said its second-quarter profits stood at $43.9 million, or 5 cents a share, amounting to a 60-percent drop. A year earlier, the company reported net income of $109.7 million, or 15 cents a share.The company attributed the fall to reduced patent...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. unveiled details of its Mobile Station Modem solution, the MSM6100, it hopes to ship in the second half of 2002, saying that the third-generation chipset and system software incorporates video decoding and encoding, audio decoding, gaming applications, music downloads, camera, liquid...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Problems with Qualcomm Inc. CDMA chipsets and delays in carrier approvals of new handsets led to a disappointing first fiscal quarter for Audiovox Corp.The company reported net sales for the quarter ended Feb. 28 of $191 million, compared with sales of $331 million...
MOSCOW—Russian company Accord-Tel announced plans to create the fifth pan-Russian wireless network with the use of cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard.Four pan-Russian GSM networks are being created by Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Vimpelcom (BeeLine), Megafon and MCT Corporation (Indigo)....
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped 600 million chips of all types, of which the company's mobile station modem chipsets and system software accounted for more than 200 million."Our consistent on-time delivery record, combined with our industry-leading CDMA R&D, has helped drive the...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced it will join 13 BREW application developers and publishers to demonstrate BREW applications at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando."The companies joining us at CTIA have done amazing work and are taking this opportunity to highlight the expanding possibilities of wireless,"...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm signed an agreement with Japanese carrier KDDI to enable the carrier's handsets with Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) technology to enhance KDDI's data services offerings."KDDI's use of the BREW platform and gpsOne position location technology together will drive...
