Rebounding from a humbling, all but forced capitulation in the face of fierce government opposition to its proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA, AT&T won FCC approval to snap up $1.93 billion in Qualcomm spectrum just three days later.
AT&T is getting a jumpstart on its 4G network by agreeing to purchase almost $2 billion worth of airspace used by Qualcomm’s recently-shuttered Flo TV service. Flo TV plans to stop using the airspace in March 2011 and the sale is expected to close in the second half of next year sometime, pending regulatory approval.
News broke yesterday that Qualcomm would be shuttering its FLO TV service and the company has just relased a statement that says direct to consume sales of hardware have been halted and that service will continue into next spring. If you subscribe to FLO TV services through your mobile phone carrier, it seems your service [...]
In a rather needlessly lengthy post, TechCrunch contributor Steve Cheney claims that unnamed sources have revealed to him that Apple has ordered millions of CDMA chipsets from San Diego, CA-based Qualcomm. The fabled iPhone for Verizon will supposedly go into production in December.
Out of Lenovo’s entire crop of CES laptop offerings, the Skylight might be the neatest of the bunch. Wait. Did I just say that about a netbook? I did! The ARM-based 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon smartbook features a 10.1-inch display, full keyboard, up to 10 hours of battery life, weighs less than 2 lbs. and has [...]
There’s never been a compelling reason to have a portable TV on your person. Do we really need another way to rot our brains? FLO TV certainly thinks so. The Qualcomm-developed technology began appearing on a handful of mobile phones last year and offers live streaming and previously aired content from a variety of networks. [...]
