We haven't been shy about expressing our undying love for the MiFi, and now Novatel is playing catchup with the Sierra Wireless-built Sprint Overdrive and bringing WiMAX into the fold. Novatel has completed and tested a WiMAX MiFi prototype, achieving 18Mbps throughput in testing. The unit relies on a Beceem WiMAX chip and has 30Mbps down / 10Mbps up theoretical speeds. No word on when the 4G...

Colm Healy, Vice President of EMEA Services for Qualcomm Internet Services, and General Manager of Xiam Technologies, argues that operators and brands need to put consumers in control of mobile content The recent explosion of device-centric application stores and the...

Looks like the Motorola Droid Devour(Calgary, A555) that will be released on Verizon Wireless soon will be the first Android phone rocking the Qualcomm MSM7627 processor. This is a new processor for Qualcomm and can also be found in the Palm Pixi and RIM BlackBerry Curve 8530. The processor is similar to the ARM 11

It's been a busy start to the year for mobile chip maker Qualcomm, with the launch of the Google Nexus One and Lenovo trying to chuck a Snapdragon chip in anything it can get its hands on. And things don't look like letting up, with two new flavours of Snapdragon due to be launched this year. We spoke to Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (pictured below), at... ...

The Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor is slowly becoming a mainstream product with more and more devices now supporting it. So, what’s next in line? Well, that’s exactly what we’ve got for you guys today. Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm, has confirmed that they will be coming out with two new Snapdragon processor

Scott Bicheno from Hexus just spoke to Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CDMA Technologies, who unveiled that Qualcomm is going to be adding 2 processors to the Qualcomm Snapdragon family during 2010. First up is the 8X50A, a 45 nanometer version of the current Snapdragon, but running at 1.3 GHz

Samsung has signed a brand new deal with the cell phone chip manufacturer Qualcomm. The contract is to last over the next 15 years and started with a down payment of 1.3 billion dollars, chump change for the number two handset maker of the world. The deal is to include for QUALCOMM to allow Samsung rights to 3rd and 4th gen wireless technology, also Samsung will pay out royalties to Qualcomm but p...

Samsung Electronics will pay Qualcomm $1.3 billion in a cross-licensing deal that will allow Samsung to use the chipmakers's 3G and 4G wireless technology and for Qualcomm to use 57 of the manufacturer's mobile patents. Read the full story here.

bvlad: Samsung to pay 1.3 billion US dollars for Qualcomm patents

While some companies make their way to the top using others' achievements, there are still ones that are willing to pay for patent licenses without mumbling too much. Like Samsung who have just...