Talk:Qualcomm/Archives/2012

Logo is inaccurate
It looks like someone just did a poor autotrace of the .png to get that svg. If you compare the true Qualcomm logo, it is much sharper. In particular the C in Qualcomm is completely wrong in the current image. 199.106.103.248 (talk) 21:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:QualcommLogo.png
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Patent infringement issue
Why is there nothing about that in this article? . Anchoress 20:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup and advertisement tags at top
I added them. Cleanup includes wikification and expansion to come in line with other corporate articles; advertisement alludes to the focus on products and the lack of information about current controversy. Please do not remove the tags unti the issues have been dealt with and noted on the talkpage. Anchoress 20:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not detected a significant amount of advertising or bias in this article, it seems to spend as much time on the Broadcom case as the Broadcom article. I'm in favor of removing the tags.  Mathiastck 23:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

The article is lacking
In coverage of Qualcomms role as developer of the 3G WCMDA technology, on the initial struggle with Nokia, Ericsson and the other UMTS crowd, and how Qualcomm managed to get essentially full control over the current UMTS technology, including their patent policies. This is of course also the real background with their current battle with Broadcom, since Broadcom could not get a license for UMTS on what Broadcom (and probably most of the world) considered reasonable terms. -- Egil (talk) 09:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

It also reads like shit. It is more a collection or loosely bound statement than an article. I'll try and clean it up but I don't know all that much about Qualcomm Towel401 (talk) 20:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The history section needs some cleanup and some transition sentences or something, it doesnt flow nicely at all...as Towel said, it reads like ****. Also, the complete lack of dates is annoying. All a reader can tell is that all the stuff in the history section happened after 1985-the year it was founded.

134.121.247.116 (talk) 08:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * One date I was looking for that I just found out was when CDMA was patented...it appears it was 1990 > http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/patentcitation/cdma.html. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.121.247.116 (talk) 08:13, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

This article doesn't ever mention the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (other than a link in See Also) which is a major Qualcomm investment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.35.156.11 (talk) 19:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

CDMA Canada Bann
This line "Immigration Canada has banned the use of CDMA by people trying to cross the border because it is easily GPS tracked." seems a bit unrelated, at worst, and needs a citation at best. -- Jim

Globalstar and IS-95
The article states that Globalstar uses IS-95, which is not correct. Globalstar does use many of the same generic CDMA techniques that are in IS-95, but it had to customize its air interfaces to deal with the propagation delays and doppler shifts. I work for Qualcomm so I probably shouldn't make the change myself. Karn (talk) 00:10, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

What's the status of the Globalstar EV-DO deployment? This article says it is coming in 2009 Pablos (talk) 18 September 2012 —Preceding undated comment added 20:48, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Language
"Qualcomm informed their Cambridge engineering staff that they were going to be made redundant". That they were going to be removed? 122.169.37.163 (talk) 07:24, 4 May 2010 (UTC) In your Qualcom main page in the first para "long-haul trucking companies" should be read as "long-haul trunking companies"

kaushik.muhuri@siemens.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.244.209.245 (talk) 04:47, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Revision Requests from Qualcomm
Hello.

This account was created on behalf of Corporate Communications Team at Qualcomm. We noticed outdated information (for example we recently reorganized our operating divisions) and we want to ensure that we’re following the right process for correcting inaccuracies.


 * Current text: “Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a US global telecommunications equipment corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA. The company operates through four segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT); Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL); Qualcomm Wireless & Internet (QWI), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI).”

These requested changes reflect the most up-to-date and accurate information about our company. We are no longer a company that is strictly in the telecomm business.
 * Requested update: “Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a mobile, computing and connectivity technologies company. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, 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 (QCT).”


 * With the release of our Snapdragon processor product line, we entered into the computing space.
 * http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-27/qualcomm-says-snapdragon-devices-to-come-with-windows-rt-debut


 * On January 5, 2011, we acquired QCA which significantly increased our portfolio of wired and wireless connectivity technologies.
 * http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063453274665320.html

Let us know if there are any questions. We’ll continue to watch this space. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qcwp (talk • contribs) 19:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Need to correct inaccuracies in Mobile Phone Standards section
Hi, I work for Qualcomm. I would like to call attention to a mistake in the Qualcomm Wiki article, under Mobile Phone Standards. Right now it reads:

''Qualcomm is the inventor of CDMAone (IS-95), CDMA 2000, and CDMA 1xEV-DO, which are wireless cellular standards used for communications. The company also owns a significant number of key patents on the widely adopted 3G technology, W-CDMA. 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.''

First, cdmaOne is spelled with either a single capital “O” or as CDMA One. Second, Qualcomm did not invent CDMA. The CDMA spread spectrum technique was actually invented by Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil for the military. The military later declassified it, making it available for commercial purposes. Google “Hedy Lamarr and CDMA” or check out: http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/nu_lectures/lecture7/hedy/lemarr.htm

Qualcomm simply improved the already existing technology and led the way to standardization and broad commercialization of the standard. Further work by Qualcomm resulted in the evolutions of CDMA, including CDMA2000 1X and 1xEV-DO. CDMA is also the foundation for WCDMA (wideband CDMA and HSPA) and TD-SCDMA. So if the editors/admins do not mind, I’d like to change the section to read:

''Qualcomm pioneered the commercialization of the CDMA (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 CDMA 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 of 2011, Qualcomm announced that it will be releasing a set of applications programming interfaces geared to give Web-based applications deeper links into hardware.''QuattroKing (talk) 06:27, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Clarification needed under Satellite phone network section...
For clarification, the section should be set off by a year. I propose: Beginning in 1991, Qualcomm participated in the development of the Globalstar satellite system along with Loral Space & Communications. The date was sourced from the Globalstar article on Wikipedia.QuattroKing (talk) 05:21, 13 November 2012 (UTC)