San Diego, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. has granted Intercube its CDMA license to design and market its 3G CDMA applications. Intercube will pay Qualcomm royalties at the same rates for second- and third-generation equipment.
With a commercial launch in full gear in South Korea, Samsung Inc. may be the John the Baptist of 3G as the first manufacturer to streak out of the uncertain cloud hovering over migration to the technology.Already eyeing the United States' market with trials...
SAN DIEGO-Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' MSM5200 Mobile Station Modem integrated circuit and system software solution for Sanyo handsets to meet the IMT-2000 Wideband-CDMA mode for the third-generation UMTS."The highly integrated feature set of the MSM5200 integrated circuit and system...
In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one's weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals walk the region's hilly terrain to the bus stop or train station rather than...
For a company only a few years old, and one that prides itself on making decisions easier for its customers, it might seem odd for Leap Wireless International Inc. to be making a branding change. While the change is not dramatic-the addition of "Another...
Qualcomm Inc. has rolled out a CDMA mobile station modem integrated circuits and system software to facilitate global roaming.The product, which belongs to what Qualcomm calls the MSM6xxx family, supports multimode, multiband second- and third-generation technologies."It is the first wireless handset family to leverage...
Qualcomm Inc. rose to the defense of third-generation technology, amid reports the technology will drag its feet for about three years.The company said the demand for its CDMA integrated circuits would meet the forecast of 16 million units, a 1 million unit increase from...
In one simple moment last week, when all my usual technology aids disappeared, the need for the United States to have a 3G spectrum policy that uses the same frequencies as the rest of the world crystallized.It was just a minute of panic, really....
HAYWARD, Calif.-In an effort to raise awareness of the issue of security as a key enabler of mobile and wireless technologies, Certicom has announced the Certicom Trust Partner Program, an open industrywide initiative dedicated to providing leading security solutions for today's wireless marketplace.Participants include...
Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is a good way for wireless customers to experience large data files.PacketVideo Corp. has jumped...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
SAN DIEGO (AP)-Qualcomm Inc. is trying to recover $573,527 in legal costs from former employees who sued the company, claiming they were denied stock options when Qualcomm sold a division to L.M. Ericsson in 1999.Gary LeBlanc, Vincent Malgapo and Ron North signed releases assuring...
In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to write applications for mobile phones from a variety of vendors.The product, known as Binary...
SnapTrack Inc. and SignalSoft Corp. have officially agreed to combine their resources and jointly market and deliver location-based applications and systems.SnapTrack, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., designs and manufactures GPS hardware for wireless devices, and SignalSoft provides software for location-based billing, safety and tracking.The...
After 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum set in 1996."This most recent auction demonstrated the...
Qualcomm Inc. said it is reviewing the need for and timing of its proposed initial public offering of Qualcomm Spinco Inc., the company's semiconductor business, which it plans to spin off.Regardless of the decision on the IPO, Qualcomm said it still expects the spinoff...
After more than a month of silence, Glenayre Technologies Inc. came out last week with guns blazing and announced three new deals to push its @ctiveLink two-way wireless messaging module-proof the company is still alive and kicking and is moving out from under the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc. was awarded a patent that describes methods for remotely locating or tracking a wireless device via client-server systems that use a computer network or Web browser to initiate a request for a wireless device's position, and to receive that position...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. made the move to invest in the infrastructure services necessary to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's Phase II E-911 mandate with a multi-year agreement with emergency communications service provider SCC Communications Corp. Under the agreement, SCC will provide call...
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. took a bold, albeit peculiar, step last week, announcing it is suspending indefinitely principal and interest payments on all its funded debt, including its credit facility, vendor financing agreements, senior notes, dividend payments and preferred stock.Globalstar was supposed to pay $45...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwan chipset designer VIA Technologies has neither confirmed nor denied a report that the world's CDMA leader, Qualcomm Inc., has settled a deal to buy a five-percent share of the company."We cannot comment on a report like this," a VIA spokesman told Reuters,...
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest carrier in Japan, has decided to launch its third-generation (3G) services based on High Data Rate (HDR) technology. KDDI will launch its HDR services initially using the 800 MHz band, the spectrum in which it provides second-generation (2G) services.KDDI is scheduled...
