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August 30, 2010

How big (or small) is femto?

by Prakash Sangam
A femto is incredibly… infinitesimally… extraordinarily small! It’s actually one quadrillionth of a unit, which, in other terms, is one part of a number that has 15 zeros! Well, the femto that I am going discuss here is not that femto. The one I’m talking about is femtocell, which has lots of buzz around it these days.
August 25, 2010

Fishing with 3G Nets

Fishing with 3G Nets
by Margaret Johnson
Recently, I traveled to the rural fishing village of Santa Cruz Cabralia, in the state of Bahia, Brazil where I represented Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative at the launch of the Fishing with 3G Nets project. Santa Cruz Cabralia is beautiful. However, the community has faced many hardships, including over-fishing, lack of infrastructure, and the emigration of people to urban areas in search of work.
August 24, 2010

Qualcomm forms incubation lab to launch next-generation mobile services and applications

Qualcomm forms incubation lab to launch next-generation mobile services and applications
by Isaac Babbs
Qualcomm Services Labs, Inc. (QSL) is a wholly owned subsidiary created to develop and introduce new services and applications that tap into the advantages of mobile technology. QSL recently launched its first four services: Neer, Qilroy, Tapioca and Vive.
August 23, 2010

Brew MP™ Code Camp – Seattle, August 17, 2010

by Brian Perrotta
Well… another successful Brew MP code camp under our belts. This time around we had our second largest turnout with nearly 30 developers in attendance. As we had this session in relative close proximity to the Bellevue AT&T campus, a few more members from the AT&T Developer Relations team were in attendance.
August 18, 2010

Segmentation Possibilities in the Smartphone Sector

by Pete Lancia
In a previous blog, I claimed that 2009 was the year of the smartphone. Well if that was the case, then 2010 is the breakout year in which we are starting to see the smartphone category itself start to segment. Iconic high-end smartphones such as HTC’s Evo and Incredible and Apple’s iPhone 4 are all selling well.
August 17, 2010

Qualcomm Helps Developers Tackle Open Market Challenges on a Global Scale

by Mitch Oliver
Since the close of our Uplinq conference, I’ve been thinking about the complex landscape that developers encounter these days. It’s a very different environment compared to what it was like during the days of the last Brew conference, more than two years ago.
August 12, 2010

Displays Getting Touchy

by Cheryl Goodman
I’m back to answer the questions about mirasol® displays that keep you up at night. Tuesday we addressed questions about how “front-light” technology enables users to view mirasol displays in conditions with little or no light. Now it’s time to get in “touch” with mirasol’s sensitive side.
August 10, 2010

Shedding Light on a Solar Eclipse

by Cheryl Goodman
There are a few questions we’re asked again and again about our technology. We hear these questions from folks visiting our website, at tradeshows (like SID, which we’ll talk about in a bit) and from you, our faithful readers. Over the next couple days, I’ll be offering some answers to a couple of these astute and very frequent lines of questioning.
August 04, 2010

Are e-readers and tablets converging? Consensus is that there is no consensus.

by Cheryl Goodman
Lately, the e-reader industry has been attacked on all sides, by both pundits and new products — set to render these single-function devices obsolete.
July 30, 2010

Augmented Reality: The Future of Play and More

by Pete Lancia
At the end of June, we held our Uplinq conference here in San Diego. One of the topics that created the most buzz was Augmented Reality (AR). I would like to share what you missed at the event and Qualcomm’s views on this developing space.
July 29, 2010

Apps Development Made Fun and Easy

by Tony Newpower
I just saw something really cool today. Google recently announced its AppInventor web-based application development environment for the Android platform. You know what the required skills are for using AppInventor? Well, can you point and click a mouse? If so, you’re off to the races. To me, this is what it’s all about: the code should be a means to a particular end, not vice versa.
July 28, 2010

Qualcomm Presents Vision for Integration of EVs in Smart Grid

by Pete Lancia
Yesterday, Qualcomm took the stage at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, an annual event showcasing many of the key players in the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem from electric utilities, to charging station manufacturers, software providers, automakers and others. During the Smart Grid Technology and Integration session, Ignacio Contreras from our Corporate New Business Development group discussed the role that cellular technologies can have in enabling electric cars and charging infrastructure in the future.
July 27, 2010

The Internet of Everything, Including Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles

by Pete Lancia
The Mobile Internet has exploded over the last few years and the next area for innovation will come from making the Internet of Everything a reality. Wireless is going to be embedded into sensors that are all around us that will help us manage and monitor many aspects of your life.
July 21, 2010

The Power of Word of Mouth

by Kabir Kasargod
A few years ago on a business trip, I had a chance to meet with my good friend Monique to catch up. After sharing our updates over dinner, Monique excitedly asked me, “Have you heard of Redbox? It’s like Blockbuster Video, but it’s a vending machine, and you can rent new movies for just a dollar a day. How cool is that!“
July 02, 2010

Omnimedia as a Lifestyle

by Cheryl Goodman
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.
July 01, 2010

WebTech @ Uplinq

by Mark Bapst
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.
June 22, 2010

Advertising on Tablets/e-Readers

by Cheryl Goodman
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.
June 21, 2010

Platform Wars—They Fight, You Lose

by Tony Newpower
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.
June 18, 2010

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

by Don Jones
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…
June 14, 2010

Creating Entrepreneurs

Creating Entrepreneurs
by Shawn Covell
Qualcomm and Grameen Foundation’s Long Collaboration Brings the Benefits of Wireless to Rural Indonesians Over the last three years, Qualcomm Wireless Reach and Grameen Foundation have worked alongside Indonesian organizations to evaluate, test and build a Village Phone Microfranchising program. Combining the power of microfinance with the benefits of expanding access to wireless communications (mobile phones) has resulted in positive economic and social returns for entire communities.

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