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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (58091)	1/3/2007 8:38:54 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 197472

S. Korea-- slightly different take from this article: ------------------- The investigation into Qualcomm was triggered last year by complaints from Nextreaming and Thin Multimedia, two South Korean companies that make software that allows cellphone users to download music, surf the Internet and display video over high-speed cellular networks. Lim Il Tiek, president of Nextreaming, charged that Qualcomm had undermined fair competition by bundling its own multimedia software into its market-dominant cell phone chip sets. nytimes.com -------------------- It's amazing that three days after the intial article from Reuters the Google headlines for Qualcomm have this headline in 35 out of the first 40 links, no doubt because the market was closed and while the SEC squeezes Apple shareholders. Might as well invest in China.

To: slacker711 who wrote (58091)	1/3/2007 9:06:12 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 197472

"The investigation into Qualcomm was prompted by complaints filed in June by Nextreaming ..." I hope the name Nextreaming is not an evil omen.

To: slacker711 who wrote (58091)	1/3/2007 12:24:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197472

Dang those facts are hard to find. They could make some up. <“We have been investigating Qualcomm's case since last April, but we have found it to be a complicated case where facts are difficult to establish,” said Lee Seung-kyu, an investigator for the commission. > Drooling 'anti-trust' officials could simply declare that there is a trust even if there isn't. Just say "We don't trust you QCOM" and take it to court. Get the judge to say "I don't trust you QCOM". Hey presto, an anti-trust case is proven and QCOM has to give them the money. "Complicated"? Yeah, right. It's a fleet of whining Koreans wanting something for nothing. Same old story. Mqurice

To: slacker711 who wrote (58091)	1/25/2007 9:59:00 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 197472

With the 1st Broadcom trail coming to conclusion, the Korean Trade Commission challenge is starting to make a bit more sense. Message 23212448 Message 22971851 Thin's Techology is wavelet (think Ramchandran) ... TMI's wireless video platform is based on a wavelet codec called Thin Client Media 2 (TCM-2), and its supporting infrastructure includes authoring, streaming and decoding software tools. The software operates on all CDMA cell phones with multimedia screens; phones without TCM-2 can be recalled and retrofit with little difficulty, Park said, though SK Telecom doesn't offer an upgrade option. Initially, TMI's software was based on MPEG 4, but the company soon discovered that handsets required to support that standard were expensive, and consumers weren't interested. “To use MPEG 4 based services, users had to buy specially designed, very expensive phones,” Park said. “That service was pretty much dead on arrival.” telephonyonline.com and the Pantech situation can't be good for these folks ... nextreaming.com