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To: slacker711 who wrote (57780)	12/15/2006 3:23:17 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197673

Original BREW announcement re: purpose and vision: infoworld.com ---------------------------- [snips] January 31, 2001 QUALCOMM ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY the development of an open application platform for wireless devices, which the company said is a better alternative to Java for mobile telephones. The announcement, made in Tokyo, comes five days after the first cell phones with support for Java went on sale here.... "We think that it will ignite a revolution in applications development and dramatically increase the pace of handset innovation," said Paul E. Jacobs, executive vice president of Qualcomm, at a Tokyo news conference. "We believe Brew can have this impact because it solves fundamental issues facing developers, device manufacturers, and carriers as they seek to bring the Internet to a vast array of wireless devices," he said.... "The major reason for this was new applications. At this point in time, they have to be programmed by handset manufacturers individually, therefore it all depends upon development of applications on the part of the manufacturers," [said Masashi Onodera, executive vice president of DDI]. "At the same time, it also depends on the difficulty involved with software development and these have resulted in delays in handset shipments." "Brew will resolve this problem," Onodera said, because the handsets will not have to be reprogrammed for new services. That also brings benefits for the user, Jacobs said. "What you will see is faster operation and more responsive applications. ... The virtual machine with Java requires a lot of processing power because it is an interpreted environment instead of a native environment. The applications will run faster and we will also have richer, more complex applications running on top of Brew because you have deeper access to the functions in the phone".... The Brew system does away with the sandbox approach to security that Java uses, where applications are free to run in a protected area of the device. Instead, Brew applications will be certified error- and virus-free by Qualcomm and signed with a digital key so that devices can run software with no fear of rogue applications....