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Today Qualcomm scored a huge coup for its MediaFLO mobile television service by winning the right to broadcast the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and to create a 27/7 channel devoted to the event. All MediaFLO subscribers will be able to watch the broadcast when it airs on Dec. 3. The fashion show...
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Nokia posted a 30.5 percent drop in earnings today on sales of 12.2 billion euros ($16.5 billion). The company saw its market share erode by 2 percent from the previous quarter and blamed price cutting by competitors for taking buyers.
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Asus Eee PC
A new report from ABI Research on ultra mobile devices will warm Intel’s heart. The report estimates that the sale of all ultra mobile devices including mobile Internet devices, ultraportable PCs, netbooks and basically anything larger than a phone and smaller than laptop will move...
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10-13-2008
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Typically, customers have had to choose between a satellite-based phone or a cellular phone when travelling to remote areas. Now, thanks to a new technology agreement, it will be only a matter of time before customers won’t have to choose. That’s because the goal of this agreement is to incorporate...
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Qualcomm said today that it will build a chipset to offer combined cellular and satellite radios in one handset. It hopes to offer them in 2010. This is a boost for the struggling satellite companies and offers up the potential for a small phone that is integrated with existing CDMA cellular networks...
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How do cell phone users want to get their mobile applications, how do mobile developers want to deliver them, and what’s the future? Web or native, preloaded or installed, at a centralized app store or a distributed model, bundled or installed, offered by a company or a consortium, and open or...
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Yesterday the New York Times reported that an engineer’s LinkedIn profile appears to confirm that Apple will make its own application processors for the iPhone — something long suspected after Apple purchased low-power chip firm PA Semi and got a license to tweak the ARM mobile core. Such...
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Figuring out how to get wireless subscribers to watch and pay for over-the-air television on their mobiles is a problem in the U.S., and apparently it isn’t doing well in Europe either. But instead of asking if people actually want to watch broadcast TV on their mobiles (or would rather just stream...
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After a few quarters of nonchalant statements that the sub-prime mortgage crisis and rising oil prices weren’t going to affect the tech stocks, the bloom is off the rose. The lowered sales forecasts and lackluster quarters are trickling in, and the trend for wireless companies is clear. This morning...
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09-04-2008
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You have to love it when two companies fight like children and then suddenly grow up. For as long as I can remember Nokia and Qualcomm have been squabbling over patents.
To paraphrase Monty Python the two companies have decided, ‘lets not bicker and argue over who created CDMA.
There are extra...
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The ugly-duckling of Mobile TV standards definitely didn’t get off to a good start in 2007. MediaFLO, wholly owned by lawsuit-loving Qualcomm, has shown that 2007 wasn’t a great year for profits. MediaFlo’s 2007 statement-filing with the SEC details yet another year of red-ink. Qualcomm’s...
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When it comes to getting your corporate name out into the mobile-ether, the buck stop with the Chief Marketing Officer. So, it seems that our favorite legal-beagle chipmaker and MVNO are shifting around their corporate hierarchy with new CMO’s. Virgin Mobile USA has announced that its long-time...