AirPrime to Leverage QUALCOMM's BREW Applications Platform to Speed Wireless Solutions Development for OEM CDMA Customers.Business/Technology Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 AirPrime, a leading provider of high-speed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. ) wireless data and voice solutions to the original equipment manufacturing (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) marketplace, today announced an agreement with QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM QCOM Qualcomm, Inc. (stock symbol) ) to support QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless BREW is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones. It was originally developed for CDMA handsets, but has since been ported to other air interfaces including GSM/GPRS, UMTS, and CDMA. (TM) (BREW(TM)), an applications platform for wireless devices. The BREW platform will allow developers to create applications for CDMA devices without having to access the CDMA chip system source code. AirPrime will use QUALCOMM's dynamic software platform for wireless devices to optimize customization of its own CDMA product platforms for carriers, shorten the product development cycle, and speed its customers' time to market for their wireless products and applications. AirPrime's first product platform, the SB3000, is a third-generation (3G) ready, wireless CDMA Springboard(TM) Module for the Handspring(TM) Visor(TM) handheld computer A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. . Based on existing and 3G CDMA technology (cdmaOne(TM), cdma2000 1x/1xEV), the SB3000, will allow Handspring users to wirelessly surf the web, exchange e-mail and make voice calls from a single device at 14.4 kbps. As 3G CDMA digital service becomes available, the SB3000 can be upgraded to support cdma2000 1x with data speeds of up to 153 kbps, power saving and voice capacity enhancements. "The BREW initiative is a valuable development tool for a number of our platforms," said Mark W. Steele, AirPrime's senior vice president of Product and Program Management. "We believe the BREW platform will help us rapidly customize our embedded CDMA products for OEM customers. Longer term, the BREW initiative is capable of accelerating the development of key strategic applications that will work across multiple OEM platforms." "AirPrime is uniquely positioned to help QUALCOMM quickly expand adoption of the BREW platform in the wireless Internet market segment," said Peggy Johnson, senior vice president of QUALCOMM and general manager of QUALCOMM Internet Services. "We look forward to working with AirPrime to enable valuable applications for their OEM customers." About AirPrime Inc. AirPrime Inc. is a leading supplier of high-speed, CDMA wireless access solutions to the OEM market. Working under a full CDMA subscriber license from QUALCOMM Incorporated, AirPrime is focused exclusively on providing the optimal current and next-generation wireless access products to OEMs for use in handheld devices, notebook PCs, and Internet appliances. AirPrime's wireless products will also be used in telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. and emerging applications. A private, venture-backed company, AirPrime is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with additional development offices in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and a sales presence in existing and emerging markets around the world. For more information please visit http://www.airprime.com. About QUALCOMM QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's business areas include CDMA integrated circuits and system software; technology licensing; the Binary Run-time Environment for Wireless (BREW) applications development platform; Eudora(R) e-mail software; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar(TM) system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS(R) and OmniExpress(TM). QUALCOMM owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. QUALCOMM has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 100 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2000 FORTUNE 500(R) company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (R) under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors QCOM. Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the Company's ability to successfully design and have manufactured significant quantities of CDMA components on a timely and profitable basis, the extent and speed to which CDMA is deployed, change in economic conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended September 24, 2000, and most recent Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . QUALCOMM, OmniTRACS and Eudora are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. cdmaOne, BREW and OmniExpress are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Globalstar is a trademark of Loral QUALCOMM Satellite Services, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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