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SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. refuted claims made in a Korean newspaper that certain Korean manufacturers’ royalty obligations will expire in 2006 for sales within Korea and in 2008 for sales outside Korea. Qualcomm said The Korea Times apparently is reporting details …

The United States last week struck a historic trade deal with Vietnam, the communist nation and one-time foe whose name pops up a lot these days as we find ourselves bogged down militarily in another overseas hot spot. The U.S.-led …

While big-name media conglomerates scramble to find ways to leverage the “third screen,” a handful of wireless companies are slowly gaining traction by offering content from hometown TV newscasts. Local Solutions Network, an Atlanta-based mobile content delivery company, has quietly …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. refuted claims made in a Korean newspaper that certain Korean manufacturers’ royalty obligations will expire in 2006 for sales within Korea and in 2008 for sales outside Korea. Qualcomm said The Korea Times apparently is reporting details …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it plans to extend Microsoft Corp.’s “Live Anywhere” technology onto its BREW platform in an effort to provide a “unified gaming universe.” The chipmaker used its BREW 2006 Conference to showcase an integrated gaming offering across …

MINNEAPOLIS—Wireline connectivity equipment leader ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it’s willing to pay $2 billion in stocks to acquire Andrew Corp., a move that would give ADC a major boost in the wireless gear arena. Indeed, a combined Andrew and ADC …

The upcoming AWS auction of 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, now slated for August, raises the question of how many frequency bands might be jammed onto a handset and whether that poses technical challenges for component and handset vendors. …

Further glimpses at Nokia Corp.’s strategy for addressing the CDMA market that has largely eluded its global grasp came to light recently as several phones surfaced, rebranded for the Finnish handset giant. Web-based reports revealed last week the existence of …

Qualcomm Inc. sent yet another shot across Nokia Corp.’s bow, filing a lawsuit last week in the United Kingdom against the Finnish handset maker for alleged violations of two of Qualcomm’s GSM-related patents focusing on GPRS/EDGE handsets. In typical Nordic …

“News of my death has been greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain is said to have written in 1897, when he remained hale and hearty. Qualcomm Inc. has taken a page from Twain and added a biblical twist, as it hails its …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced a single-chip solution that supports three of the world’s mobile broadcast standards. The chipmaker’s new UBM chip supports Qualcomm’s own MediaFlo technology, plus Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) and One-Segment integrated services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) technology. Qualcomm …

SAN DIEGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. signed on to use Qualcomm Inc.’s BREW-based handset customization interface, uiOne. Qualcomm’s uiOne is already in use at Sprint Nextel Corp, the nation’s third-largest carrier with more than 40 million subscribers, and at Alltel Corp., the …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. sent yet another shot across Nokia Corp.’s bow, filing a lawsuit in the United Kingdom against the Finnish handset maker for alleged violations of two of Qualcomm’s GSM-related patents focusing on GPRS/EDGE handsets. The suit seeks an …

NEW YORK—Investment bank UBS joined the latest wireless parlor game: Will Nokia Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. get the upper hand in the two companies’ intellectual property rights licensing negotiations? UBS analyst Maynard Um wrote in a report on Nokia that …

PITTSBURGH—Penthera Technologies Inc., a software provider for mobile broadcast TV and multimedia, announced the launch of its Penthera Broadcast Center 1.0, a carrier-grade mobile broadcast control and data system designed to support advertising, branding and metering. Though terms were not …

A quarter century ago, RCR’s inaugural issue rolled off the presses. Radio Communications Report was launched by Titsch Communications Inc. as a monthly spinoff of another publication, Two-Way Radio Dealer, to cover the emerging cellular telecommunications industry. In its second …

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to boost sagging revenues by making its Java programming language available as free open-source software. Jonathan Schwartz, who took over as Sun’s chief executive officer three weeks ago, told developers at last week’s JavaOne conference …

Mobile game-makers spent their time at the world’s largest video-game conference trying to reconcile two very different bills of health. A report issued by M:Metrics in advance of the Electronics Entertainment Expo earlier this month indicates mobile-gaming activity has been …

The CDMA camp is on a roll with a litany of recent successes, guaranteeing its place at a global wireless table still dominated by GSM technology, according to the CDMA Development Group. The expected network upgrades to CDMA2000 1x EV-DO …

Nothing kills a party like running out of food and booze. And, when guests show up in droves, beyond expectation, you check your supplies and commandeer friends for a mad dash to the store, right? Especially if each and every …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-NextWave Wireless Inc. filed a Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering their existing shares of stock, but the company said it is not preparing for an initial public offering. “NextWave Wireless LLC has filed a Form …

NEW YORK-Broadcom Corp.’s share price popped up 3 percent while Qualcomm Inc.’s fell 2 percent after a UBS analyst reported that a staff attorney for the International Trade Commission advised an ITC judge that Qualcomm infringed on two Broadcom patents …

NEW YORK—Broadcom Corp.’s share price popped up 3 percent while Qualcomm Inc.’s fell 2 percent yesterday after a UBS analyst reported that a staff attorney for the International Trade Commission advised an ITC judge that Qualcomm infringed on two Broadcom …

Qualcomm Inc. may be closer to snaring a European deal for its MediaFlo mobile TV offering through a new agreement with digital TV platform operator British Sky Broadcasting Inc. The two companies agreed to test MediaFlo this summer in the …

Now that Qualcomm Inc. has signed a new royalty-bearing patent agreement giving Soma Networks Inc. license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units, modem cards and infrastructure equipment based on Qualcomm’s OFDM and OFDMA technology, the wireless industry is buzzing …