*Also, where is Gregg Powers who still hasn't answered why he is right and Irwin is wrong about fragmentation of 3G standards? Gregg and others think that aberrant and arbitrary technical deviancy is good to fragment the 3G standards to impose higher unit costs on R&D. Also, what about the "we don't have to pay royalties to ourselves and we get cheap ASICs" question to reduce profit to zero.
Also, why on earth would anyone want to sell the handset division which is roaring? The concept of handsets as commodities is absurd. We are only in the Model T phase.
Also, the final vindication - posted by Mika in a final indignity. Tero, Bill [out for another flogging, Frezza] are you eating crow?
Message 10119906
<...Ericsson announces its membership in the CDMA Development Group (CDG) at the organization's Fourth Annual CDMA World Congress in Hong Kong, June 14-18, 1999. This membership signifies Ericsson's commitment to support the development and deployment of cdmaOne technology worldwide. In addition, Ericsson will participate in standardization and development efforts to ensure a smooth evolutionary path to third generation services with cdma2000...>
This quite clearly says that L M Ericsson is going to be developing and deploying cdmaOne technology worldwide, despite the denials and accusations of we cdma proponents being totally obtuse "When will you looney CDMA fanatics get it? Ericsson DOES NOT WANT cdmaOne and Ericsson INVENTED W-CDMA"
It just needs pointing out again for the newbies who might think L M Ericsson has bought out Qualcomm and is now implementing Ericy's great vision.
The employees going to L M Ericsson should be very happy. They were not making headway because the marketing costs were too high. They would have stayed in a poorly performing division with no bonuses. They will be working with the same people as before, though Ake Persson is now the boss and the shareholders are different people [other than Caxton, Mardy, and a few others]. They will be in a hugely successful division and they will get good pay, great bonuses and be on the leading edge of the new world of CDMA.
They have got Ericy's money, marketing and operational capacity now at their service. They can sell $$billions to China, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil and all over the place. The Ericy people have even adopted Qualcomm lingo: <''By the acquisition of Qualcomm, we suddenly have 1,300 people to pay salaries for, so our costs in the short-term are going
up,'' Dimert said. ''But for the long-term, the infrastructure looks very, very promising.''>
Message 10131727
[actually originally posted here by Michael P but worth repeating]
Yes indeed, the infrastructure looks very, very promising. ["very, very", is Irwin Jacobs lingo for superlatively fantastic, for those who are not up with the jargon].
Mqurice
PS: *Graviton Spin Reversal* How about these bandits, trying to pinch my patented Graviton Spin Reversal technology for using Anita [TM] as a 'helicopter'? You sit in a car, with Anita [TM] attached, and the whole thing just floats up.
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scientificamerican.com
The Mystery of Nucleon Spin
Klaus Rith and Andreas Schäfer
A crucial property of protons and neutrons is their intrinsic angular momentum, or spin. Simple models of their spin are elegant--but wrong. The truth involves devilishly complex interactions among ephemeral quarks and gluons within these particles.
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They've figured out it's complex - that should keep them busy for a while and give SurferM's cheque [check] a chance to arrive and clear [if only we had EudoraCoin [TM] we could be underway by now].
Also, I'd have liked to visit and maybe watch a few touchdowns by Mark McGuire at Qualcomm stadium and go hiking in the desert scrub with some of the SI locals, but it was a flying visit - maybe we could have a local SI convention next time. When Q! hits 200/2/2000.
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