Qualcomm, Intel and most of the companies involved in mobile computing and wireless all agree on one thing: Embedded wide-area broadband is the way to go for notebooks, UMDs and consumer appliances.
But it's happening across industries, a creative conjoining of mobile-computing brawn, faster wireless speeds and data-crunching in the computing cloud.
The collaboration between the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm will bring together experts in technology usability, wireless sensors, cloud computing and mobile health to accelerate the convergence of these fields.
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It manufactures high performance mixed signal and standard products, which cater to automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
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"Sierra Wireless has offered wireless modules with LTE support since 2010, and Qualcomm Gobi technology has been important to the success of our LTE module program, " said Dan Schieler, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Computing for Sierra Wireless.
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These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
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NXP's product solutions are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
Concurrently, greater availability of wireless broadband Internet, shared network printers, and mobile computing has made it easier for groups to share printers, putting additional downward pressure on demand for printers.
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Growth in computing is moving away from the PC and more toward wireless, mobile and connected devices: Motorola's turf, not Intel's.
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