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To: slacker711 who wrote (44923)	3/8/2005 8:03:24 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (3) of 197214

QUALCOMM Names Dr. Paul Jacobs as CEO Unfortunately, I think the question needs to be asked...has Paul accomplished enough to deserve this promotion? Dr. Paul Jacobs has been the primary driver of QUALCOMM's focus on enabling wireless data. He has held numerous engineering and management positions since joining the Company fulltime in 1990. Dr. Jacobs' early work focused on the speech compression techniques that became CDMA's initial differentiating consumer feature. In 1995, he was appointed to run the handset and integrated circuit division, which was subsequently divided into QUALCOMM Consumer Products (QCP) and QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, respectively. Important developments which began under Dr. Jacobs in QCP include the first Palm OS(R)-based smartphone, the Company's initiative to include global positioning system (GPS) capabilities in cellphones and the initial work on the BREW(R) environment. Dr. Jacobs expanded this latter idea into the overall concept for the BREW system, which included dynamic downloading of applications with security checks for digital signatures, and the business ecosystem that enables BREW developers to engage operators globally and receive payment. He was an early proponent of embedding TCP/IP in CDMA phones and worked with operators and industry partners to develop technology which allowed CDMA devices to directly connect to the Internet. Dr. Jacobs first conceived of deploying voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) as the basis for push-to-talk capabilities over CDMA networks, which became QChat(TM), and he developed many of the technical concepts and business strategy for the MediaFLO system. Dr. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. JMO....but I dont think that enough of these initiatives have been successful to endorse his promotion to CEO. This isnt much of a surprise....I guess we'll just have to hope that he is closer to the second generation of Galvins (Robert) than the third (Christopher). Slacker

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