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To: S100 who wrote (114501)	2/26/2002 1:29:38 PM
From: S100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Qualcomm Juggles GSM and BREW Deals 02/25/02 Qualcomm had several announcements at this week's 3GSM World Congress pertaining to its Global System for Mobile (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies as well as its BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform. For starters, the company demonstrated a convergence solution for GSM1x, a cost-effective technology evolution for GSM operators. GSM1x enables convergence of a GSM/GPRS core service network with CDMA2000 radio access. With it the company says operators can mix it into their existing GSM/GPRS core network equipment while enhancing the data capabilities and spectral efficiency of their radio access with commercially available CDMA2000 1x infrastructure. Using existing spectrum, GSM1x offers better voice and data capacity, supporting peak data speeds of up to 307 kbps in a 1.25 MHz channel. Common data throughput will be 70-90 kbps, 2-3 times the throughput of standard dial-up modems. This solution introduces a GSM1x Mobile Switching Node (MSN) to interface an existing and unmodified GSM core network with an unmodified CDMA2000 radio access network. The GSM1x terminals use a standard GSM Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and are subject to standard GSM authentication. But as a result, Qualcomm says operators will be able to offer global roaming and service transparency between CDMA2000 1x and GSM networks without compromising their current infrastructure. "Combining the feature-rich services of the GSM core network with the spectral efficiency of a CDMA2000 radio network creates a powerful, cost-effective solution," says Qualcomm chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs. "With the GSM1x solution, GSM operators can offer customers advanced voice and data capabilities while maintaining the key features and services already available on their GSM networks." The company says it is accelerating acceptance of 3G CDMA solutions in South Korea, North America and Latin America, which now account for over five million 3G CDMA users. The company also inked a development deal with Comverse, and content agreements with Walt Disney Internet Group and San Francisco-based NuvoStudios. All three companies will be using Qualcomm's BREW technology to enhance their own offerings. A Comverse exec said that "Our joint efforts and resulting synergy will lead to the introduction of a vast array of attractive multimodal solutions for BREW applications. As a result, end users will enjoy a more natural user experience because they will be able to choose their preferred mode of interaction." mbusinessdaily.com

To: S100 who wrote (114501)	2/26/2002 1:31:16 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of God (we could use some humor today) The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliban zealots by proving the non-existence of God. Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets', will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of pavement cafes at strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else. Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous. There is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out of my ear, Juliet, I am talking." Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's nauseating freedom of action with special reference to the work of Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. However, humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects of passive smoking from the Frenchmen's endless Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area. Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may also contribute to the effort by dropping Professor Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to propagate his non-deistic theory of the creation of the universe. This is only one of several Psy-Ops operations mounted by the Allies to undermine the unswerving religious fanaticism that fuels the Taliban's fighting spirit. Pentagon sources have recently confirmed rumours that America has already sent in a 200-foot-tall robot Jesus, which roams the Taliban front lines glowing eerily and shooting flames out of its fingers while saying, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Follow me or die."