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...Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers, was turned into the largest of the county's 25 evacuation centers. With the fire affecting much of the county's rural areas, many of the centers found accommodations for farm animals as well as domestic pets. LeDanian Tomlinson and several other San Diego Chargers were among the county residents evacuated from their homes. While many of the displaced found shelter in school gymnasiums converted into Red Cross shelters, the Chargers headed to Arizona, leaving the site of next Sunday's home game against the Houston Texans uncertain...
...half the cost" of cellular networks, which were originally designed only to handle voice calls. Handset vendors also like the prospect of a WiMax future which may help to free them from intellectual property payments. (Many cell phones, for example, use a technology called cdma from San Diego?based Qualcomm, which collected $2.75 billion in licensing fees in its most recent fiscal year...
...reality--until now with little success. But digital multimedia broadcasting, a new Korean technology, is finally allowing consumers to get video on the go. On May 1, TU Media, a subsidiary of SK Telecom, launched a satellite-based service that beams seven video channels to cell phones. (Nokia and Qualcomm are backing similar technologies that won't hit the market until next year.) Tu Media forecasts 600,000 users for what it calls "take-out TV" by year's end. One obstacle: the cheapest video-ready phones cost $700. Lee's grandmother has another issue. "She asked...
...much: "We wanted people who would represent the Administration positively, and--call us nutty--it seemed like those who wanted to kick this Administration out of town last November would have some difficulty doing that," says White House spokesman Trent Duffy. Those barred from the trip include employees of Qualcomm and Nokia, two of the largest telecom firms operating in the U.S., as well as Ibiquity, a digital-radio-technology company in Columbia, Md. One nixed participant, who has been to many of these telecom meetings and who wants to remain anonymous, gave just $250 to the Democratic Party. Says...
...North America and parts of Asia and Latin America) and GSM networks (used everywhere else). Verizon is offering the Samsung a790 for $350 with a two-year contract, with international calling rates starting at $1.29 a minute in the most-developed countries. Samsung is using semiconductors from CDMA pioneer Qualcomm, which was the first to integrate the competing network technologies on one set of chips. Qualcomm has also licensed the dual chips to LG and Motorola, which plans to roll out its first global phone in the fourth quarter but has yet to announce a carrier...