Qualcomm

Taiwanese handset vendor has predicted that phones based on Google's Android operating system will account for as much as 50 percent of its devices portfolio in 2010.

Qualcomm has scored a major customer win for its Plaza Mobile Internet widget platform, announcing that Latin American mobile giant America Movil will deploy the platform across all of its 18 subsidiaries in the region.

The Wall Street Journal notes that Qualcomm has disputed a draft order from Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordering it to modify its licenses with some Japanese companies and eliminate provisions they say force them to cross-license patents to Qualcomm on a royalty-free basis and prevent them from filing patent lawsuits against them.

US mobile silicon giant Qualcomm is to take a stake in South Korea's third-largest handset vendor, Pantech, as part of a debt-to-equity swap.

Telecompaper notes that German notebook manufacturer Smartbook has obtained a restraining order against Qualcomm and its German subsidiary at the District Court Cologne.

Sprint is planning to launch devices running Qualcomm's Brew platform. No specific details were mentioned in the US operator’s press release today.

Silicon giant Qualcomm is ramping up efforts in the heavily-hyped but still nascent femtocell (home base station) market.