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Qualcomm Received License to Sell Chips to Huawei

Qualcomm Inc. has received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., Reuters reported. This decision means that Qualcomm has complied with a rule that the U.S. Department of Commerce unveiled in May of 2020 that requires licenses for sales to Huawei Technologies of semiconductors made abroad with U.S. technology. In

Qualcomm Wants Permission to Sell Chips to Huawei

The Wall Street Journal reported that Qualcomm Inc. is lobbying the Trump Administration to roll back restrictions on the sale of advanced components to Huawei Technologies. Qualcomm wants to sell chips for Huawei 5G phones. Qualcomm is telling U.S. policy makers their export ban won't stop Huawei from obtaining necessary components and just risks handing billions of dollars of Huawei

Microsoft Loses Top Engineer as they Scramble for CEO Closure

Last week I was at Ford for a press event. I got to talk directly to Ford CEO Alan Mulally (he was interested in my Google Glass). I didn't ask about the Microsoft offer because that was covered in the press bombardment earlier -- which he side-stepped the answer. But now, Microsoft is facing a new issue as a top

Steve Ballmer makes symbolic handoff of CES to Qualcomm

We knew Microsoft was out of the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013 and going forward. The company decided that, like Apple, it could do better on its own. However, Steve Ballmer decided to make a cameo appearance tonight on the CES stage during Paul Jacobs' keynote address. It was a handoff from old technology to new, but with a bridge

E-Logs

As an over-the-road truck driver, in the past couple of months I had to make the mandatory switch away from a paper logbook that had to be filled out each day to an electronic logging system, or so-called E-Logs. For some time now I knew the changeover was in the works, nonetheless I approached this change with trepidation. Certain trucking

Skifta by Qualcomm

Qualcomm which is known for its silicon and wi-fi technology for handsets and tablets is spreading into software and service. One of the consumer products they are currently developing is called Skifta. It is a media shifting platform which works through  DLNA-certified and UPnP -compatible devices. DLNA protocol has been around for about eight years. Most TVs today which are