Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
Verizon, by contrast, uses a different standard, known as code-division multiple access (CDMA).
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Telecommunications experts predict that most GSM countries will adopt a 3G standard known as Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA).
It signed a deal earlier this year to source phones from an undisclosed Asian contractor that will work with the carrier's chosen technology, code-division multiple access (CDMA).
Now, Qualcomm is a promising telecom company with a lock on a technology (called code division multiple access) that is becoming the standard for digital cell phones.
Sprint uses code division multiple access technology, or CDMA, in its cellular networks, while Nextel uses Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) iDEN hardware.
While T-Mobile and Cingular use that standard, Verizon and Sprint operate on the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) standard, which is popular in North America but not supported everywhere else.
In the widely used cellular protocol known as code division multiple access, or CDMA, data are chopped up into dozens of small, duplicate data packets and blasted out over a range of frequencies.
Seybold is still bullish on the long-term prospects of Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which has made progress penetrating the European mobile phone market with its code division multiple access wireless technology.
But Samsung Electronics, an affiliate of the Samsung chaebol, did have one thing going for it: The firm was totally committed to the up-and-coming phone standard of the time, known as CDMA technology (or code division multiple access), adopted by Sprint.
He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
Representatives from Silver Lake Partners, one of the lead investors among the consortium of private equity, venture capitalist and pension funds that bought Skype from parent eBay in 2009, told Forbes that Skype will continue to be run out of multiple offices, even after it becomes a division of Microsoft.
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"Multiple deployments have multiple effects, " said Darrell Partee, chief of the service support division in the Georgia National Guard.
The U.S. market will also get a crack at reacting to news that UBS is preparing to ax multiple business lines and lay off 10, 000 in its investment banking division.
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The plans coming out of these collaborations can use multiple verticals of IBM technology, some of which the company says remain proprietary to its research division.
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