Qualcomm

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 North Carolina algebra students. The students used the 3G phones …

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 part to the success of their chips for wireless devices. …

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 to bring a variety of 3G devices to the region, …

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 Yue laid out plans for the world’s largest operator to …

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 a very different turn and the Taiwanese chipmaker saw its …

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 top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our …

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 says its antitrust division has closed its investigation of the …

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 and looking for less expensive ways to attract new customers. …

Global sales of smartphones exceeded those of all personal computers combined last year, with vendors shipping roughly 490 million smartphones, according to reports from IDC and Canalys. This was well above the estimated 414 million client PCs (including tablets and …

Device makers spent more on chips for wireless products last year than on chips for computers or any other product. The latest research from IHS iSuppli shows semiconductor spending for wireless products at $58.6 billion in 2011, up more than …

The positive buzz about Nokia’s Lumia 900 is sounding very sweet to Qualcomm, maker of the 1.4-GHz Snapdragon APQ8055 chipset that powers the smartphone. After several years with no business from the world’s largest mobile phone maker, Qualcomm appears to …

AT&T (T) closed on its $1.925 billion acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses covering 300 million potential customers from Qualcomm (QCOM). The deal gained regulatory approval late last week, having been announced initially in late 2010. The process was delayed …

Following the discovery of a lump of coal in its stocking earlier this week, AT&T (T) managed to get at least one present it was hoping for: Qualcomm’s 700 MHz spectrum. AT&T announced late last night that it had garnered …

Qualcomm (QCOM) is set to lose one of its co-founders to retirement as the company announced Irwin Jacobs would retire from its board of directors at Qualcomm’s 2012 annual stockholder meeting. Jacobs served as Qualcomm’s initial CEO and chairman at …

AT&T has asked the judge overseeing the Department of Justice case against its plan to acquire T-Mobile USA to “stay any further court proceedings until Jan. 18, 2012, to allow the two companies time to evaluate all options.” “AT&T is …

Texas Instruments says fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than expected, thanks to weakness in all markets — except mobile. Success in the wireless market has been a key differentiator for chipmakers this year, as companies that have a strong presence …

As the amount of data moving over wireless networks grows, so does the demand for the chips that generate and process that data. Strategy Analytics estimates that sales of smartphone applications processors surged to $2.2 billion in the third quarter, …

Chipmakers Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) and ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) all saw tremendous growth this year, according to preliminary 2011 market share rankings from research firm IHS. Acquisitions helped each company boost sales and market share. Intel purchased …

Mobile phone intellectual property rights (IPR) licensing significantly includes patents that are “essential” to implement various standards including GSM, CDMA, HSPA and LTE. Purported IPR valuations including those derived from essential patent ownership “determinations” are subject to great uncertainties, inaccuracies …

Qualcomm is looking to take advantage of Latin America’s relatively modest 3G penetration rates to boost its influence and revenues in the region. As part of this, Qualcomm said it was also looking to participate in the Brazilian semiconductors value chain …

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay launched HSPA+ commercial networks during the first week of November, bringing Latin America’s total of HSPA networks in the region to 66, with 25 now upgraded to HSPA+ technology, which is available in 17 countries, industry …

Switzerland’s ST-Ericsson has inked a deal to supply chipsets for future Nokia phones that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. Shares of ST-Ericsson’s two parent companies, Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, traded higher on the news, as did Nokia. Finland-based Nokia is …