Samsung and Qualcomm recently announced a renewed cross-licensing agreement regarding each firms' patents in mobile and wireless technology. Samsung will be making use of up to 57 of Qualcomm's 3G and 4G patents. Samsung will make a down payment ...

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.

Samsung and Qualcomm have reached a cross-licensing deal which will let Samsung continue producing 3G and 4G wireless phones for the next 15 years.  Samsung is also letting Qualcomm 57 of its patents on mobile technology.  The $1.3 Billion is a down payment and future loyalty payments will be involved, but arent detailed.  It is

Wireless carrier Sprint announced today the launch of a new device for its users, the Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless. According to the company, the new device offers users the possibility to connect a number of up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to the Sprint 4G network, thus providing them with transfer speeds that are ten times faster than those delivered by 3G networks. Th...

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...

Novatel Wireless  has completed a technology transfer with Qualcomm Incorporated of two Qualcomm Wearable Mobile Device module designs. This new technolgoy could mean faster smaller devices like Novatel's  MiFi USB portable Wi-Fi network Or small USB devices that connect the web and networks for consumers electronics. The Qualcomm Wearable Mobile Device supports integrated GPS, accelerom...

Qualcomm looks set to be the leading patent holder in 4G wireless communications after recording 24% of ETSI declarations surrounding LTE, as well as 16% of the 26,000 patents that have potential relevance to 4G technologies generally, including WiMAX. Other notable players in the LTE field include Interdigital (18%), Huawei (10%), LG (9%), Nokia (9%) and Samsung (7%). When considering the whole 4...

You know those annoying little stickers you get on new handsets proudly boasting that they're packing 3G technology from Qualcomm? Yeah, well, those have already started to go away as manufacturers have turned to competing chipsets -- but Samsung buyers definitely won't need to peel those off anymore in a year or two when the Korean giant starts rolling out its WiMAX- and LTE-based phone...

Finnish cell phone giant Nokia has sued Apple, claiming the iPhone violates ten patents covering GSM, 3G WCDMA and WLAN technology. Nokia claims since 2007 the iPhone violated wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption. The lawsuit apparently stems from Apples refusal to license the technology from Nokia. By refusing to agree to appropriate terms for

You can't please all the people all the time. In a suit filed today in U.S. District Court, Nokia claims that Apple has violated 10 of Nokia's wireless technology patents. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the company says the patents "relate to technologies fundamental to making devices," that are compatible with the GSM, UMTS, or 3G WCDMA, and wireless LAN standards.