bizjournals (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Shares of SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. were up more than 22 percent Friday on reports that the company could be near a patent infringement settlement with Broadcom Corp. (SIRF) (BRCM)
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Technology stocks cut their losses late Friday, while memory chipmaker SanDisk Corp. surged following a report that it could be an acquisition target.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Components and Semiconductors industry is available in its catalogue.
EE Times (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
AMD could announce later this month a significant advance towards its long-touted fab-lite strategy that involves spinning out its Dresden, Germany fabs in a deal that includes an investment from a middle-East group to form a new company.
Reilly2040's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
I'm a glutton for punishment I think. I've blogged about this before, but I've been having another crack at getting the wifi to work on my laptop under Ubuntu again. I really can't figure it out. With ndiswrapper, I get my broadcom card's drivers installed. Near as I can tell, this definitely works. [...]
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Online movie rental service Netflix Inc. on Tuesday said Bill Holmes has been appointed as vice president of business development. (NFLX) (MSFT)
Mannerisms (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Forbes magazine dismisses Qualcomm's defeat in the US courts by Broadcom as a 'minor bump'. Qualcomm has been ordered to pay Broadcom all the profit it has made from its QChat service whatever that is, and whatever they may be....
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Steve Murray submits: “Connecting Everything” is a perfect company slogan for a company which has been doing just that. Broadcom (BRCM), a semiconductor company based in Irvine, CA, has had explosive growth recently. Many of its products are regarded as parts of the wireless and multi-face future. Its low-cost, high-speed multi-functioning “system-on-a-chip” semiconductors and the software that combines...
Engadget HD (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Filed under: Displays , Other hardware , Set-top boxes , Pioneer , Sharp If a Panasonic prototype plasma and new copy protection spec weren't convincing enough, we'll let the Wireless HD group argue why it's ready to compete with WHDI and all the rest . This summer's big get is Broadcom , ready to promote Wireless HD as a necessary feature in the army of HDTVs and set-top boxes it already powers....
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Judge Rejects Most Grounds for Contempt, Finds Certain Violations SAN DIEGO - August 28, 2008 - Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced that the District Court for the Central District of...
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
After a long series of lawsuits between Qualcomm and Broadcom last year, it was determined that Qualcomm was in violation of patents when using certain chipsets and an injunction was issued. A court has found that Qualcomm has been violating that injunction and has ordered Qualcomm to make a payment to Broadcom for profits lost. The violation is for the use of the chipsets in the company s Q-chat...
DeepMarket Stock Market Blog (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Image via Wikipedia Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks: Priceline.com Inc (PCLN) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Priceline.com Inc in context. Omnivision Technologies (OVTI) over the next 5 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Omnivision Technologies in context. Gap Inc (GPS) over the next 7 trading [...]
UberPhones (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Ignoring an injunction might be a way to earn you a couple of extra bucks, but you can only get away with it for so long. Last year Qualcomm was banned from selling some 3G chips that were deemed to have infringed on Broadcom’s patents, but they obviously ignored the warning, resulting in the judge finding the company in contempt of violating the injunction, and ordered it to pay the gross profits...
IntoMobile (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
In a move that should at least somewhat restore your faith in the US legal system and corporate accountability, U.S. District Judge James Selna found that Qualcomm violated (more like ignored) a previous injunction that barred the chip-maker from selling 3G chips in the US that infringed on Broadcom’s patents. This most recent ruling [...]
Gadgets Future (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
by Nilay Patel , posted Aug 29th 2008 at 5:04PM Ooh, Qualcomm you been naughty. You might remember that last year Qualcomm was banned from selling various 3G chips that infringed on Broadcom's patents, but the big Q apparently believes that being in trouble is a fake idea, because it kept right on doing it -- to the point where a judge yesterday found the company in contempt for violating the injunction...
