A U.S. federal court affirms a ruling against Qualcomm in its long-running battle with Broadcom over video technology patents, but voids a part of the lower-court decision that said Qualcomm could not enforce the patents. The ruling is slightly favorable to Qualcomm because of the part on enforceability, Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder says. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) A U.S. federal court on...
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A federal appeals court has added another layer to the never-ending dispute between Qualcomm and Broadcom over digital video patents by agreeing that Qualcomm was wrong but that the punishment doled out by a lower court was too harsh. The appeals court sent the whole thing back to that lower court for another go. The case started in 2005 when Qualcomm said chip competitor Broadcom infringed on two...
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In the Energizer Bunny of litigation (it keeps going and going and going), Broadcom won a round in its running battle with Qualcomm over EVDO chip patent issues when a federal district court ruled that Qualcomm violated an injunction to stop using Broadcom technology or pay royalties. Qualcomm had been allowed to continue to sell "legacy" EVDO chips until Jan. 31, 2009 as long as Broadcom got a ro...
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FierceWireless on 19th Nov 2008 (via fiercewireless.com)
Broadcom today said a federal judge again ruled contempt against rival mobile chip maker Qualcomm for infringing the rules of an earlier injunction.
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WirelessWeek on 18th Nov 2008 (via wirelessweek.com)
All products were obtained from company Web sites, downloaded, and installed on our test PCs – either a Dell 710m notebook running XP SP2, or a 2.8 GHz. 24-inch iMAC equipped with a Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 Wi-Fi adapter and running OS X 10.4. Each product was then put through its paces, checking every option, and compared for accuracy against our reference, the Intel ProSet/Wireless console, wi...
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NetworkWorld on 17th Nov 2008 (via networkworld.com)
Broadcom Corporation today announced a new combination chip that integrates a complete Bluetooth Version 2.1 + enhanced data rate (EDR) baseband, radio and software, along with a high performance FM stereo radio transceiver, on a single piece of silicon. This next generation host controller interface (HCI) solution targeted for mobile devices adds FM transmit capabilities, enhanced voice and stere...
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CellPhoneDigest on 23rd Oct 2008 (via feedproxy.google.com)
Broadcom's new combination chip integrates Bluetooth® Version 2.1 + enhanced data rate (EDR) baseband, radio and software, along with a high performance FM stereo radio transceiver, on a single piece of silicon.
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MobileTechNews on 23rd Oct 2008 (via mobiletechnews.com)
65 Nanometer Combo Chip Integrates Bluetooth with FM Radio Receive and Transmit Capabilities and Advanced Audio Processing for Low Cost Multimedia Handsets Read the full story here.
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