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To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (123231)	8/15/2002 2:33:01 PM
From: qveauriche	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

robv. I am wondering what,if any, impact it would have upon your doleful outlook for 3g, and QCOM in particular, if the PCS Vision launch proves to be as successful as the Asian 1x launches. If that alone won't do it can you give some indication as to what else would have to happen? Not at all intended antagonistically.I'm just trying to gauge the extent to which your negativity is based upon a lack of confidence in CDMA>

To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (123231)	8/15/2002 2:46:23 PM
From: surfbaron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Rob: ok you win; IPR, licensing and patents suck. But I read your post and still I can't find any mention of a WHY-FI company thats profitable today, two years ago and the prospects for future profit growth are double digits, spends 25%+ of sales on R&D annually, has 2x annual sales in cash. Who are these mighty WHY-FI GUYS. Oh right its my neighbors teen kid pedaling through the neighborhood with a hotsheet on WHY-FI spots. Or the local retailer with overpriced real estate just itching to negatively monetize the unused space by offering free WHY-FI. Or the military vendors with a customer of impeccable efficiency in decision-making. You keep citing the death of telecom. funny my cell phone still works fine, my dsl is good to go, and my wireline is trusty, when I go to a hotel the dialup works (p.s. funny I don't see the WHY-FI ISP's offering their shit for free). You remind me of the Netscape bozos that conned everyone in to thinking that free had value. You also sound like the enlightened travelers who spend a little while overseas and think the U.S. wireless industry is in the dark ages. Is our telecom industry in great shape, no. We went from monopoly to Darwin style biz model in a nano second. Capitalism works. And free is not a value driver. Or did your outcome based educator fail to tell you.

To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (123231)	8/20/2002 5:14:14 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 152472

In patents we trust infosync.no By: Jørgen Sundgot, Monday, 19.08.02 10:56 GMT Smart-call has received a U.S. patent for maintaining phone book and calendar data in a range of mobile devices; could device manufacturers be forced to pay licensing fees? Smart-call, based in Fort Worth, Texas, recently announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had granted U.S. patent #6,427,064 for the company's invention "Method and Apparatus For Maintaining a Database in a Portable Communication Device." According to Smart-call, the patent covers the company's solutions for providing Caller ID in wireless messaging, and synchronization of phone book information between a personal computer and a wireless communication device, such as a Smartphone or two-way pager. "This patent is validation of our early role in the emerging convergence of portable computing and wireless communications devices," said Daniel Henderson, inventor and President, Smart-call Incorporated. "This patent is a result of ongoing research efforts and further reinforces our belief that the future lies in small portable communication devices that can easily access and exchange calendar, contact and other information with different devices and computing platforms, whether on the go or in the office." The technology allows for periodically or intermittently updating, modifying and refreshing a database in a portable communication device using serial, parallel, infrared or radio frequency links with other devices - a description that matches closely the process commonly known to users of various mobile devices as synchronizing. According to the patent, Smart-call has also devised a method for automatically delivering Caller ID as part of a paging signal, which is commonly used on today's cell phones and paging systems. By comparing data in the paging signal to a portable communication device's internal directory of names and numbers, the device can retrieve and display phone book entries, a picture of the caller, address information and other data. A second Smart-call patent, United States Patent #6,278,862 was issued August 21, 2001 for "Method and Apparatus for Enhancing the Efficient Communication of Information in an Alphanumeric Paging Network". According to The Smart-call, its patents were filed before the first PCS cellular telephones and two-way paging devices, the introduction of Magic Cap, Envoy and Marco products by Motorola, the first Palm Pilot, Windows CE by Microsoft Corporation, Symbian, and Handspring. The company did not state whether it intended to pursue collecting licensing fees from manufacturers of various mobile devices that use technology similar to what Smart-call has patented, but should the patent be general enough to cover a wide range of devices, the possibility is present. If pursued, devices covered by the patent might risk seeing an increase in price depending on the fees collected, as manufacturers are unlikely to be willing to decrease their profit margins drastically.