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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ruffian who wrote (26441)	4/7/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Dear Techies and any Qualcomm employee lurkers: I have a real world problem; need advice. The problem with Lo-Jack is you have to know that the car has been stolen. Is there a way with present technology to install a security system in a car that will sense movement and instruct a cdma cell phone hidden in the vehicle to dial Lo-Jack as well as my cell phone number with a pre-recorded message to alert that the car has been moved, so that the Lo-Jack can be turned on and the car located. Remember the phone has to have some power and if it has a battery it cannot have to be changed but maybe once every ten years. And, you can't have a visible antenna because it is a classic car. If you have further questions, private mail me. {This should be an interesting puzzle, but in line with our discussion several months ago regarding possible uses for cdma, cell-phone transmissions for security, device control purposes.}

To: Ruffian who wrote (26441)	4/7/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 152472

When it says "as of 4/7" I presume that includes today's trading?

To: Ruffian who wrote (26441)	4/8/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Michael, those are interesting statistics on flow of funds. However, such data could only be useful to confirm short term trends, not longer term directions, which would be tied more to fundamentals. Inasmuch as I don't do technical analysis but restrict my decisionmaking to long run implications, the current events that seem to me to be paramount in influencing QCOM prices are: (1) increased patent royalties resulting from the affirmation of the key patent, and from the Q-E agreement, and (2) strong indications that China will not prevent CDMA from competing with other recently approved systems, such as GSM. If CDMA is allowed to go forward in China, as seems likely now, it means the opening of market demand for at least 30 million CDMA handsets in the next two years or so - about 20 times the entire world production so far. Art