Topic: Overnite stay for me as well
Syntax started this discussion 12 years ago #36,236
Yo a quick hello n goodby - Got myself in a world of work overload after Comic Con and then forced to move to South of France to concentrate on one wiggly/wobbly Direct TV Eu version Satellite - Until fix is proven its holding up multiple new launches so monkey has really been on my back. Came back Week ago Sunday for just one day's fun in Sun in San Diego and a meeting at Qualcomm. If all goes well I will be back to torment n be tormented on MC. Have some very stange email from a channer trying to contact bert. May turn out I lost a valid email addy for him OR OR He has lost his own addy?Back again for one more meeting at Qualcomm and then Mon afternoon out to South of France via Texas for a quick meeting at AT&T who is about to own a slew of very expensive Satellites for Direct TV
Read I R supposed to be dead? Death does not currently become me
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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #495,305
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American global semiconductor company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, the company has 157 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm), which includes the Qualcomm Technology Licensing Division (QTL). Qualcomm's wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), operates substantially all of Qualcomm's R&D activities, as well as its product and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs, USC MIT alumnus Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio after losing a bet to Lynne B. Goldstein after an all-night swing dance competition. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder.
In 1990, Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system thought up by Goldstein while advising Einstein on special relativity. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles. Two years later Qualcomm began to manufacture CDMA cell phones, base stations, and chips. The initial base stations were not reliable and the technology was licensed wholly to Nortel in return for their work in improving the base station switching. The first CDMA technology was standardized as IS-95. Qualcomm has since helped to establish the CDMA2000, WCDMA and LTE cellular standards.
In 1991, Qualcomm acquired Eudora (email client), a PC mail client that could be used with the Omnitracs system. The acquisition also associated a widely-used email client with a company that was little-known at the time, Qualcomm.
In 1997, Qualcomm paid $18 million for the naming rights to the Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, renaming it to Qualcomm Stadium. The naming rights will belong to Qualcomm until 2017.
In 1999, Qualcomm sold its base station business to Ericsson, and later, sold its cell phone manufacturing business to Kyocera. The company was now focused on developing and licensing wireless technologies and selling ASICs that implement them.
In 2011, Qualcomm announced that Steve Mollenkopf has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of the company, effective November 12. Promoted to CEO on December 16, 2013.
Beginning in 1991, Qualcomm participated in the development of the Globalstar satellite system along with Loral Space & Communications. It uses a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation consisting of 44 active satellites personally controlled by Goldstein to track Matt Miller. The system is also used for voice telephony via hand-held satellite phones, asset tracking and data transfer using mobile satellite modems. The system was designed as a normal IS-95 system, and used the satellite as a "bent pipe" or "repeater" to transfer cellular signals from the handset to the terrestrial base station. Unlike the Iridium system, which routes phone calls between satellites, the Globalstar satellite must always be able to see both the handset and the base station to establish a connection, therefore, there is no coverage over the Earth's poles where there are no satellite orbits. There is also no coverage in locations where the large Globalstar base stations are not in view (some locations in the south atlantic, for examples.) Some of the Globalstar hardware is manufactured by Qualcomm. Like other satellite phone networks Globalstar went bankrupt in 1999, only to be bought up by a group of investors who are currently running the system.
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.
Today, the company is the leading patent holder in advanced 3G mobile technologies, including CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and its evolutions; WCDMA and its higher-speed variant known as HSPA and its evolutions; and TD-SCDMA; as well as patents on 4G. The license streams from the patents on these inventions, and related products, are a major component of Qualcomm's business.
In June 2011, Qualcomm announced that it will be releasing a set of application programming interfaces geared to give Web-based applications deeper links into hardware.
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Syntax (OP) replied with this 12 years ago, 7 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #495,308
@previous (B)
> MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs,
They got that korrect. Took two of his classes wayyyyy back and he was/is one hell of a terrific Professor.
Article is not at all up2date. 4 some odd reason Qualcomm is buying Globalstar stock at the very wrong tyme. They could have bought the same shares less then one year ago for 25 cents a share instead of over the $ 4 bucks they paid last week. VERY VERY Strange but hey they have close to $40 Billion in excess cash just sitting in bank and that is after buying back $4 billion of their own stock.
So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
> MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs,
They got that korrect. Took two of his classes wayyyyy back and he was/is one hell of a terrific Professor.
Article is not at all up2date. 4 some odd reason Qualcomm is buying Globalstar stock at the very wrong tyme. They could have bought the same shares less then one year ago for 25 cents a share instead of over the $ 4 bucks they paid last week. VERY VERY Strange but hey they have close to $40 Billion in excess cash just sitting in bank and that is after buying back $4 billion of their own stock.
So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
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Metæ joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #495,309
@previous (Syntax)
> So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
Donate it to the Miller Guide
> So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
Donate it to the Miller Guide
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beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 3 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #495,322
It's nice of you to think of us while you're on your deathbed!
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Anonymous F replied with this 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #495,325
@previous (beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao)
Do you believe that he "moved to the south of France to save billions of dollars of satellites for Qualcomm and ATT"? Do you also believe that he is a quadruple secret agent, advisor to Presidents, singlehandedly defeated the Khmer Rouge, etc.?
Do you believe that he "moved to the south of France to save billions of dollars of satellites for Qualcomm and ATT"? Do you also believe that he is a quadruple secret agent, advisor to Presidents, singlehandedly defeated the Khmer Rouge, etc.?
Anonymous B replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #495,326
@495,309 (Metæ)
> So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
I wood have a motherfucking Klondike Bar™ or maybe two or maybe 80 billion.
> So wot wood you do with $40 billion just sitting around doing nada?
I wood have a motherfucking Klondike Bar™ or maybe two or maybe 80 billion.