Talk:Qualcomm/Archives/2014

Omintracs

In November of 2013 Vista Equity Partners acquired Omnitracs from Qualcomm and is operating it as an independent company. In December of 2013 that new company acquired Roadnet which was in the same line of business. I suggest that the Omnitracs "article" that was merged into Qualcomm is spun out again to align with the new reality. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 18:10, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Edits requests from Qualcomm

Hello. The Qualcomm Corporate Communications Team would like to add some additional information to the “Acquisitions” section to provide a more complete/accurate history of Qualcomm acquisitions:

-In 2005, Qualcomm acquired Elata, a pioneer in the development of over-the-air (OTA) delivery technology for wireless applications and content since 2000. This acquisition extended Qualcomm’s reach into Europe and reaffirmed its support for open wireless standards.

-In 2006, Qualcomm acquired Berkana Wireless, a specialist in RF CMOS solutions founded in 2001. This acquisition helped enable Qualcomm to more quickly deliver new, highly integrated RF CMOS solutions to its CDMA2000 and WCDMA customers.

-In 2006, Qualcomm acquired Qualphone, a specialist in IP-based Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)-embedded client software solutions for mobile devices and a provider of interoperability testing (IOT) services. This acquisition helped Qualcomm further accelerate the delivery of multimedia, feature-rich, 3G solutions on top of the emerging IMS and Multi Media Domain (MMD) architectures to CDMA2000® and WCDMA/UMTS markets.

-In 2006, Qualcomm acquired Airgo Networks, a company specializing in 802.11 chip and MIMO technologies. This acquisition helped Qualcomm enable its device-manufacturing partners to more quickly and easily offer a wide range of compelling wireless devices.

-In 2006, Qualcomm acquired RF Micro Devices (RFMD). This acquisition enhanced Qualcomm’s ability to support its device-manufacturing partners.

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Let us know if there are any questions. We’ll continue to watch this space. Thank you.Qcwp (talk) 21:39, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

I have corrected the description of Qualcomm's acquisition of RF Microdevices's Bluetooth division in 2006. Qualcomm did not acquire RFMD, only a small part of it that was developing (CMOS) Bluetooth products (as can be seen in the original reference given). To provide some background, RFMD has been a manufacturer of RF components, primarily cellular GaAs power amplifiers which form a significant part of the peripheral electronics and chips outside of the main SoC processor inside a handset and continued to sell a billion or so dollars worth of them each year (many of them alongside Qualcomm chipsets in mobile phones) until it merged with TriQuint Semiconductor recently. Although Qualcomm has been developing cellular RF technology itself based on its expertise in CMOS technology, due to the increasing RF complexity and data rates associated with the smartphone revolution GaAs technology has until now continued to be essential and sales of these components have increased (see also significant sales growth at Skyworks Solutions). That said, Qualcomm is currently pioneering commercial shipment of CMOS cellular RF technology products for smartphones and some analysts believe this technology will gradually take over from GaAs over the next several years (maybe 50% of the market in three to five years time). Calamites (talk) 03:02, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

The QChat section should be shortened and redundant info should be deleted for easier reading/comprehension

I am proposing: QChat is a cellular/data 2-way Push-to-Talk (PTT) technology developed by Qualcomm and designed for 3G and next-generation networks. QChat-enabled mobile devices and server software allow users to connect instantaneously with other QChat users with the push of a button over the cellular network instead of making a normal mobile phone call. In addition, QChat enables one-to-one (direct) and one-to-many (group) calls and communication including the ability to add participants ad-hoc to existing calls by any participant.[39] It is optimized for UMTS HSPA/HSPA+ and CDMA 2000 EV-DO Rev. A networks, can roam across networks, is compatible with 1xRTT, and interoperates with iDEN. The largest QChat customers include Sprint in the U.S., Nextel International (NII) across Latin America, and China Telecom. QuattroKing (talk) 05:39, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

It would certainly be a huge improvement over the copypasta press release that currently appears in the article. Honestly, I'd make it even a little less "brochurey", by dropping words like instantaneously — that term is pure marketing and has no encyclopedic worth. IMHO. – FeRD_NYC (talk) 20:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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Qualcomm takedown notice to Github

Recently a paragraph was added and then removed about a takedown notice that was issued to Github on behalf of Qualcomm on 2 July. Just now I observed on the Github site a further announcement dated 8 July in which Qualcomm is undoing some or all of the takedowns. Whichever way this ends up, I agree with User:Crisco 1492 that we should have better quality referencing for something like this. Unless there is something published in the business or trade press it's hard to know if any of this belongs in our article on Qualcomm. We don't generally use primary sourcing in these cases. EdJohnston (talk) 23:07, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Qualcomm initiated this, so even if they remove DMCA for *all* repos they forced to take down, this is still important to mention in the aspect that even opensource software is not protected against DCMA repository hoster takedown. 77.11.54.195 (talk) 23:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Auto archiving

I propose auto archiving for this talk page. ClueBot III creates an index and can be set to keep a certain number of threads (5 proposed), archive threads at a set age (90 days proposed). I also propose adding an archive box. - - MrBill3 (talk) 11:47, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Acquisitions

I have a conflict of interest with Qualcomm and would like to help improve this article following COI best practices. I've started by putting together a wikitable of Qualcomm's acquisitions at User:CorporateM/Qualcomm, similar to the format of the tables in List of acquisitions by AOL, List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems or List of mergers and acquisitions by Google. Because many of these acquisitions are small and would create undue weight on this page, my suggestion is to create a separate List article that will eventually have an introduction and then to use Summary Style on this page. If editors agree with that approach, I'll submit the List article to AfC, but I wanted to check-in here to see what the sentiment was. Any thoughts on this? CorporateM (Talk) 22:45, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Good list, but I think it may actually be better to include these in the main article rather than creating a separate list article.

Each list entry has a "technology" associated with it. Does this mean that Qualcomm always and only buys businesses for their technology? (Rather than, say, skills or production facilities or a good brand or a foothold in some key market). Also, would it be possible to develop some prose around Qualcomm's acquisition strategy? And has Qualcomm ever sold a business unit, or is it a one-way street? bobrayner (talk) 18:00, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

@bobrayner That sounds like a plan. The current acquisitions section has a lot of unsourced/poorly-sourced items, copyright symbols, etc. and this would be a much better replacement. I am not a subject-matter expert and probably can't answer some of your questions until I read more sources. However, it is on my To Do list to research/write a prose-style summary if the sources are available for it. "Technology" was just a way to describe the business they were acquiring (they are all tech companies) and wasn't intended to imply anything about their motives for the acquisition. We could rename it to "Business" like the Cisco page does[9]. CorporateM (Talk) 19:19, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Good ideas. Certainly better than what we've currently got. bobrayner (talk) 23:29, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Requesting an independent editor replace the current "Acquisitions" section, with the draft at User:CorporateM/Qualcomm. Sometime in the future I will also be looking at potentially improving it as discussed above depending on what sources are available. CorporateM (Talk) 01:06, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

@bobrayner While doing research for the rest of the article, I came across another recent acquisition. Do you think I should keep the Acquisitions list updated myself as non-controversial edits or would you like to do the honors?

|- |July 2014 |EmpoweredU |Mobile education software |Not dislcosed |<Ref>{{cite news|title=Qualcomm acquires mobile ed tech firm EmpoweredU|url=http://www.zdnet.com/qualcomm-acquires-mobile-ed-tech-firm-empoweredu-7000032144/|publisher=ZDNet|accessdate=August 7, 2014|first=Charlie|last=Osborne}}</ref>

CorporateM (Talk) 16:19, 7 August 2014 (UTC)