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Samsung is buying CSR’s mobile connectivity chipset business, and some investors think that could be bad news for Broadcom.

How much do you want your smartphone to know? As long as the information doesn’t leave the phone, are you OK with your sidekick device knowing where you are, what you’re doing, who you’re doing it with? Qualcomm, designer of the chips that power most smartphones, has been right about a lot of technologies in wireless, and now it’s betting on mobile devices with built-in intelligence.

Under its new corporate structure, Qualcomm will put its primary business unit into a wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) QTI and its subsidiaries will operate Qualcomm’s semiconductor business (QCT), its product and services businesses, and its research and development. Meanwhile the parent company, Qualcomm Incorporated, will include QTL (patent licensing) and all other corporate functions.

Qualcomm wants mobile devices powered by its processors to hit the ground running the best software as efficiently as possible. So the company is offering Android developers a software development kit (SDK) for its Snapdragon mobile processors.

Dish Networks’ attempt to enter the mobile communications space received somewhat of a boost as it announced Qualcomm would enable chip-level support for potential devices designed to work across Dish’s …

Tablet makers now have a new chipset option when configuring devices for AT&T Mobility. Nvidia (NVDA) says its Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem chipset is good to go on …

Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement to sell a 49% stake in its Indian operation that holds spectrum licenses covering Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala to Bharti Airtel for …

NEW ORLEANS – Clearwire continues it march towards an LTE future, announcing this morning at the CTIA trade show that it had signed a deal with Qualcomm to produce a …

A California judge has ordered Samsung and Apple to send their CEOs and top lawyers to settlement talks next month. Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung will meet May 21 and …

If AT&T Mobility is interested in the 700 MHz spectrum assets Verizon Wireless is looking to offload, it’s keeping that interest close to the vest. Speaking during its quarterly conference …

“It’s painful not to be able to supply all the chips your customers ask for,” Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs said in announcing the company’s fiscal second quarter earnings. The …

The world’s largest seller of mobile phones says its devices and services unit will lose money during the first half of this year as it struggles to make the transition …

Sales of chipsets that enable connectivity for mobile devices are expected to surge in the months ahead, and this is seen as an area of opportunity for smaller players. The …

American teachers are spending more and more time telling students to put away their smartphones, but that didn’t stop Qualcomm from funding a program that gave free smartphones to 150 …

Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF) continue to dominate the global semiconductor market, but Qualcomm (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (BCOM) and nVidia (NVDA) are coming on strong, thanks in large …

Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will collaborate in an effort …

BARCELONA, Spain – The move towards the TDD version of LTE gained serious steam last week when during the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, China Mobile President Li …

India’s state-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has launched three tablets at a price of $66.23, $224.15, $275.12 respectively.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SIMO) has been a Wall Street favorite for more than a year, more than doubling in price between September and February. But today things took …

Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom’s Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s …

Huawei recently announced that it will award OEM contracts totaling $6 billion to Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago, three California-based leading communications technology companies.

Google (GOOG) has approval from the United States Department of Justice and from the European Union to proceed with its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI). The Justice Department …

Almost half of all Americans now own a smartphone, and the number of smartphone owners is rising every day. But carriers are struggling with the cost of subsidizing smartphone sales …