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...

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...

Nokia is preparing to launch what could very well be the first flagship touchscreen mobile phone the company has seen this coming week. Robert Scoble suggests that this handset may include Broadcom’s new chipset that combines Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, which is “just about” to be announced. Nokia currently has a countdown clock that is presumed

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...

Broadcom today said a federal judge again ruled contempt against rival mobile chip maker Qualcomm for infringing the rules of an earlier injunction.

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...

You can just tell from the wording in Broadcom's latest press release that it's still beaming from the late September court ruling involving it and Qualcomm, as we've never seen any one company so excited about a piece of silicon. The BCM2049 combo chip is built on 65-nanometer technology and combines Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and an FM transceiver in one convenient place. Obviously, the ch...

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...

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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