Qualcomm

The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Omnipoint Corp. last week and noted the Department of Justice and the FBI delayed its decision, a problem …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement to license its High Data Rate technology product designs to LG Information and Communications Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea. Under the agreement, LGIC will …

NEW YORK-Leap Wireless International Inc., San Diego, sold $1.245 billion in debt and equity securities Feb. 17, a substantial sum that was more than it expected to raise. Leap, which …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. launched a new program and Web site-developer. sprintpcs.com-designed to help Web developers create their own Sprint PCS Wireless Web applications or simply make their own Web …

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., a joint venture company between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., has been selected by Sprint PCS as a Premier Partner in its recently announced Application Developer’s …

NEW YORK-Extraterrestrial wireless received good news when Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. sold a $245 million secondary stock offering Jan. 26. In preparation for Globalstar Telecommunications’ secondary offering last week, Bernard L. …

DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the …

When you’re moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year. Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged …

SAN DIEGO-China United Telecommunications Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. announced an agreement outlining guidelines for Chinese manufacturers to license Qualcomm’s intellectual property to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access wireless …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it shipped on time chip samples and system software for the MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem. The company said this product is the world’s first third-generation 1x …

CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to accelerate the deployment of open, Internet-based …

Another Swedish company soon will be competing for America’s wireless business. Satsafe AB, based in Stockholm, said it plans to expand its mobile data communication and global positioning system-based services …

Qualcomm Inc. shares dropped 16 percent last Wednesday after the cdmaOne innovator warned of slower chip sales this quarter. This warning eclipsed Qualcomm’s higher-than-expected first fiscal quarter earnings. Merrill Lynch …

Qualcomm Inc. on Friday officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant it spectrum in the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions. Qualcomm wants the commission to quickly award it spectrum to …

Qualcomm Inc. took a major step last week to expand its patent and technology portfolio to include mobile location-based services and wireless Internet systems, announcing it acquired San Jose, Calif.-based …

NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile …

Handsets from Nokia Corp. and Code Division Multiple Access technology dominated the U.S. cellular and personal communications services industry in 1999, while international powerhouse L.M. Ericsson struggled to keep its …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM3000 chipset and high-speed packet data software solution is featured in handsets developed by several Japanese manufacturers for the 64 kilobits per second, high-speed packet …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. will cut hundreds of jobs as a result of selling its mobile-phone division to Japanese vendor Kyocera Corp., the company said. Qualcomm is transferring employees from its …

This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and …

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There is a chink in Nokia Mobile Phones’ armor, and it is the vendor’s market share in the cdmaOne handset business. While Nokia sells the most popular handsets in the …

WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler has close financial and business ties to two top wireless data firms-an arrangement CTIA’s top board members are comfortable with while others see …

Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has been able to do to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor. To do that, Kyocera needs …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies’ sixth-generation MSM3100 chipset and system software for its Code Division Multiple Access handsets. The MSM3100 chipset and …