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Omnimedia as a Lifestyle

The concept of “omnimedia” is becoming increasingly relevant with the convergence of personal computing and mobile technology. I blame this trend, primarily, for my recent bicoastal lifestyle (bi-coastal, that is, not bi-polar). I didn’t expect, however, to encounter the living, breathing manifestation of this concept— but that’s exactly what happened.

WebTech @ Uplinq

For those of you lucky enough to attend Qualcomm’s 2010 Uplinq developer conference, here’s a list of things you can look for from our WebTech team.

Advertising on Tablets/e-Readers

A few days ago, I attended and spoke at the “Dimensional to Digital: Managing from Augmented Reality to Tablets” meeting, organized by the Magazine Publishers of America. At the event, John Squires (former Time, Inc. executive) announced that he was ceding his current role as interim managing director of Next Issue Media to Morgan Guenther (former president of TiVo), who was named permanent CEO.

Platform Wars—They Fight, You Lose

As smartphones become an ever-increasingly important segment of the overall mobile phone market, more attention is being focused on the software that runs on these devices – namely, the operating system, the applications and the services. In a very short period of time, 3rd party applications have become all the rage, and the heavy hitters in the smartphone OS space are vying for the attention of these application developers.

We’re Shaping the Future: World Economic Forum on Advancing mHealth

This is my first blog posting and so before I dive into what I really want to talk about, an introduction. My name is Don Jones and I am the Vice-President of Business Development in Health & Life Sciences at Qualcomm (quite a mouthful!). It is in this role that I have the pleasure of leading Qualcomm’s expansion of wireless technologies into the consumer health, healthcare and medical device markets. Now enough of me…

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