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Mobile operator AT&T has announced it will be acquiring a broad collection of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Qualcomm for a total of $1.925 billion in a bid to expand its capability to offer 4G mobile broadband services. The spectrum licenses cover more than 300 million people across the United States, including more than 70 million people in five of the top 15 U.S. metropolitan areas: San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and… Read More

Mobile technology giant Qualcomm has announced it is pulling the plug on its FLO TV personal mobile television endeavor, stopping sales of new devices immediately and turning off the existing content service in spring of 2011—although content provided to handset operators through MediaFLO will continue without interruption. Qualcomm says it will make appropriate refunds to customers when it discontinues service, and while the company… Read More

There are some people whose lives won't be complete without real-time and timeshifted television with them all the time—and those folks will be thrilled to know the Flo TV Personal Television is on sale now through retailers like Amazon.com and Best Buy. Announced last month, the Flo TV Personal Television enables users to tap into both live and time-shifted television content using a dedicated portable player with a 3.5-inch… Read More

After looking around my office and wrapping up my notes from visits to Marvell and Qualcomm over the last couple of weeks, I noticed a trend. There is a ton of stuff coming, some of which has already arrived, that is focused on doing a few Web-connected activities without the need for a PC. A lot of it hasn’t been announced yet, but the devices that have seen the light of day include printers, picture frames, portable TVs, and a variety of new… Read More

Qualcomm subsidiary Flo TV has made the jump from phone handsets to its own consumer electronics devices: today the company announced the Flo TV Personal Television, a small portable device designed to deliver live and time-shifted television content to consumers wherever they happen to be. Flo TV's content partners include NBC and Viacom (meaning NBC, Comedy Central, and Spongebob are on board), and and delivers content over a multicast… Read More