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4 unusual facts about Qualcomm


Qualcomm

After integrating the company, Qualcomm re-branded their interface markup language, TrigML, and its accompanying integrated development environment (IDE) as uiOne.

Qualcomm pioneered the commercialization of the cdmaOne (IS-95) standard for wireless cellular communications, following up with CDMA2000, an early standard for third-generation (3G) mobile.

Thomas Pierson

In 2012 Franklin Antonio, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Qualcomm, donated $3.5 million for updates to more than double the sensitivity of the Allen Telescope Array.

WYPX-TV

On April 12, 2007, WYPX requested permission from the FCC to shut down their analog signal on channel 55 so that the bandwidth could be used for Qualcomm's MediaFLO service.


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Aloha Partners

The next-largest owner of 700 MHz spectrum is Qualcomm, which owns channel 55 nationwide for use by its MediaFLO system.

Cornell NYC Tech

The college launched following gifts of $350 million by Duty Free Shops founder Charles Feeney through his Atlantic Philanthropies and a $133 million gift by Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs and his wife Joan.

EBI2

External Bus Interface 2 (EBI2) is an external interface found on some Qualcomm processors.

Globalstar

The first call on the original Globalstar system was placed on November 1, 1998, from Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs in San Diego to Loral Space & Communications CEO and chairman Bernard Schwartz in New York.

Irwin Jacobs

Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman and former chief executive officer of Qualcomm

Lucy Hood

Hood guides the Institute’s strategy and its consortium of corporate members which include AT&T, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Qualcomm, Motorola Mobility, Alcatel-Lucent, Disney, Fox and Ogilvy & Mather.

Rosanne Siino

Since retiring, she has consulted for numerous high-tech and Internet companies, such as AOL, Google, Shutterfly, Qualcomm, and PlanetOut.

SAMENA Telecommunications Council

The Council’s membership comprises around 100 leading regional and international organizations, including Nokia Siemens Networks, Turk Telekom, Saudi Telecom, Etisalat, Qualcomm, Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC) of Jordan, among others.

Sanjay Jha

Jha began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as a senior engineer with the Qualcomm very-large-scale integration group working on the Globalstar satellite phone, and later on the first 13k vocoder application-specific integrated circuit, which was integrated into Qualcomm's MSM2200 chipset.

Sanjay Memorial Institute of Technology

Some of the organizations where alumni are employed include IBM, Infosys, Fujitsu, Qualcomm, DELL, i2, Bally Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Accenture, TCS, HAL, NAL, Shell, and Satyam.

Smartbook

By the end of 2010, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad already occupied the niche of the smartbook, so the name was dropped.

Sony Xperia Z series

With Qualcomm's latest quad-core Snapdragon S800 processor clocked at 2.2Ghz and 2GB of RAM, it also contains a 5.0 inch Sony's Triluminos and its X-Reality Engine for better image and video viewing.

Steve Dorner

As of 2006 Dorner was one of Qualcomm engineers tasked with shifting Eudora to a Mozilla Thunderbird base.

Wireless Broadband Alliance

Members include AT&T, BT, Orange, NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, Cisco, LG, Intel, Ericsson,CableLabs, MediaTek, Mosaik Solutions, NEC BIGLOBE, Qualcomm, Sharedband, Smith Micro, Spice Digital, Telkom Indonesia and Telecom New Zealand.

Zephyr Technology

More recently, Zephyr has partnered with organizations including Massachusetts General Hospital, the National Institutes of Health, Qualcomm, Verizon Wireless, and 3M to develop and launch ZephyrLIFE - one of the first commercially available comprehensive remote patient monitoring systems for general care monitoring.


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