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

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (62600)	4/13/2007 8:51:03 AM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197208

The conspiracy launched by the gang of six and Broadcom should be major headlines across the financial news networks. Hopefully the Gilder article will enable the beginning of enlightment. Hopefully he takes up the torch once again as he did in the early nineties, helping to trump the conspiracy from the Euro's and a few unethical American professors who claimed CDMA was a fraud.This time the cause needs to be taken to the legislative bodies and pronto as they seem to be setting a new course for protectionism which could only help QUALCOMM and all other American companies with essential IPR that is being stolen.

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (62600)	4/13/2007 10:10:46 AM
From: matherandlowell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197208

Has Broadcom become Nokia's whore? Finally, Gilder steps forward with a cogent analysis of what is at stake in this battle. "At a recent ITC public hearing, Broadcom CEO Scott MacGregor declared that the U.S. wireless telecom system would function better if it completely capitulated to the European standard" Hopefully MacGregor remembers that when the Nazis were driven out of Italy and France, local citizens rewarded the prostitutes who had befriended them by publicly shaving their heads. I wonder if it isn't going to be soon time for a little public haircut for the Broadcom executive team? j.

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (62600)	4/13/2007 10:14:01 AM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 197208

Gilder makes the same analysis that I have made several times, that it seems crazy that the ITC has jurisdiction to exclude American designed technology merely because fabrication is outsourced and that the ITC is actually ends up favoring foreign technology.

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (62600)	4/13/2007 6:55:27 PM
From: BDAZZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 197208

>>But threatened by Qualcomm's CDMA breakthrough, the Europeans launched a ferocious political and PR offensive, hoping to scare off potential customers of the young American firm. The technology was all hype, they said; it "violated the laws of physics.<< Was it this board or the other with the thread debating whether or not this was a myth?

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (62600)	6/14/2007 11:43:27 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 197208

"The Broadcom campaign began in May 2001 when it purchased, from an obscure bar-code and RFID company called Intermec, a set of three flimsy patents that they are now attempting to use to block the importation of all Qualcomm wireless data chips incorporating its (Qualcomm's) state-of-the-art data system called EV-DO." To correct the record on this thread ... "On December 24, 2002, Broadcom Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary Broadcom (BVI) Limited purchased approximately 150 domestic and foreign patents and patent applications from UNOVA, Inc. for $24 million in cash." -- sec.gov Broadcom may have begun a campaign in May 2001, but the patent purchase wasn't made until many months later.