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4G Will Not Have Same IP Battles As 3G, says Qualcomm

4G will not be bedeviled with the same kind of legal disputes which marred the roll-out of 3G, according to Michael Mamaghani, director of marketing at Qualcomm, speaking at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco.

ESC: Atmel offers custom ARM chips in 12 weeks

Atmel’s latest customisable ARM7 microcontroller is intended for rapid (12 week) turnaround designs. NRE charges are $75,000, and unit costs as low as $5, without requiring a separate license from ARM, said Atmel. The AT91CAP7L microcontroller has 200k gates of metal programmable cell fabric that can be used to implement proprietary customer IP, hardware accelerators, additional processor cores or other ...

UK laser maker wins VC investment

Sussex laser maker Powerlase has announced a "significant" investment from venture capitalists. Powerlase claims to make the world's most powerful nanosecond Q-switched diode-pumped solid state lasers,

CTO Of The USA

We haven’t heard much recently about the CTO of the USA, though it was a big talking point just before the US elections. Is this because the President’s choice was Steve Jobs?

CV spam

CV-spam is increasingly cluttering my inbox. There are a handful of agencies that seem to think it is a good idea to send CV's to a contrived mailing list of inferred e-mail addresses.