Qualcomm

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.

Acer's new F1 smartphone will be released on 6 October in the UK, the same date as version 6.5 of Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, reports Tech Watch.

TIM Brazil has announced plans to launch an applications store that will be available across its entire device portfolio, allowing the operator to compete directly with handset and software companies offering stores of their own.

The former and current CEOs of Qualcomm - Irwin and Paul Jacobs, respectively - fired a warning shot to operators this week during their appearance at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment, declaring that femtocells and other methods of increasing the density of radio networks will be key to future success.