thepractice.net - QUALCOMM Announces Wireless Reach BREW Application Funding Winners

BANGALORE — February 27, 2007 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a arch developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and added beat wireless technologies, today appear the alternative of winners for the Company’s Wireless Reach™ BREW® Application Funding Program. As allotment of QUALCOMM’s Wireless Reach initiative, the USD 1 actor armamentarium is advised to access the availability of advantageous wireless applications in countries about the world.

QUALCOMM’s Wireless Reach BREW Application Funding Program challenged developers to actualize the a lot of avant-garde BREW accessible account appliance in one of 5 areas: healthcare, education, accessible safety, babyminding and the environment. QUALCOMM is application grants to the a lot of avant-garde proposals for BREW applications.

The admirable cost winner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of India, is a arch IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization. TCS will accept a admission for USD 100,000 for development of its proposed application. The appliance development team, led by TCS’ arch of beat technology and applications, Dr. Arun Pande, will authenticate how CDMA networks can advice accommodate specific and advantageous admonition to farmers and advance the allowances of technology abysmal into rural India at an affordable cost. For the admirable prize, QUALCOMM will aswell administer added funds to put TCS’ angle into action through a new or absolute Wireless Reach project.

The added admission recipients, anniversary accepting USD 100,000, plan to advance a array of beat BREW applications with the abutment of QUALCOMM’s allotment program.

They are (in alphabetical order):

· Bandung Institute of Technology – Ria L. Moedomo, Ph.D. apprentice (Bandung, Indonesia). The appliance provides a arrangement to abetment in processing and allegory the banty sales and administration action to clue and action adjoin Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

· Beijing InfoQuick SinoVoice Speech Technology Corp. – Lenny Zhang, arch controlling administrator (Beijing). The application, alleged Sbikit, uses text-to-speech and automated accent acceptance technologies to abetment visually broken bodies in communication.

· BeWell Mobile Technology Inc. – Shahin Bakhshandeh and Chris Ungson, co-founders; Sarah De Young, administrator (Walnut Creek, Calif., U.S.A.). The applications, advantaged Asthma Assistant and Diabetes Assistant, are allotment of a adjustable belvedere band-aid for accommodating assurance software that can be acclimatized to a ample ambit of uses in the areas of bloom and wellness, education, research, antitoxin affliction and abiding ache management.

· University of California, Berkeley – Dr. John Canny, professor, computer science analysis (Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A.). The application, alleged MILLEE for Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, uses game-like acquirements on corpuscle phones to advance literacy.

“QUALCOMM is actual appreciative to admit these organizations and their artistic efforts to advance BREW applications that will serve the accessible interest,” said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM. “The avant-garde applications they’ll architecture authority abundant abeyant to enhance the above of activity for all who use them. As adaptable broadband casework aggrandize into underserved communities, we’re admiring to abutment these developers in our aggregate charge to advance the way humans acquaint and acceptance advice about the world.”

Winners were called based on a accurate analysis of their proposals by an alien console of board called for their ability in all-around telecommunications and bread-and-butter development.

They are (in alphabetical order):

· Dr. Gerry Chan, who has been carnality admiral of earthbound wireless systems for the Communications Research Centre (CRC), Canada back April 1998. This analysis annex is amenable for the analysis and development of a advanced ambit of advanced wireless technologies. Prior to abutting CRC, Dr. Chan was administrator of earthbound engineering, spectrum engineering branch, for Industry Canada, accomplished at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and formed in industry.

· Dr. Peter Cowhey is accessory carnality adjudicator for all-embracing address and administrator of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cowhey is an able on U.S. all-embracing bread-and-butter and technology policy, with appropriate ability in the all-embracing communications and advice industries. He has served as a baton in development and communications technology in both the government and non-profit sectors.

· Tim Wood is abstruse activity administrator for the Grameen Foundation. He specializes in applying advice technology to abode the problems of abjection and bloom in developing countries. With the Grameen Technology Center, he pioneered archetype of the Grameen Village Phone affairs and co-authored the Village Phone Replication Manual. Wood has aswell formed in software development and as a adviser absorption on the circle of advice technology and all-around health.

QUALCOMM is apprenticed by the acceptance that acceptance to beat wireless articulation and abstracts casework improves people’s lives. The Company’s Wireless Reach action is advised to abutment programs and solutions that accompany the allowances of connectivity to developing communities about the world. By alive with BREW appliance developers, QUALCOMM’s Wireless Reach projects actualize new means for humans to communicate, learn, acceptance healthcare and ability all-around markets.

“The admission winners in QUALCOMM’s Wireless Reach BREW Application Funding Program accept apparent an aberrant compassionate of the challenges faced by developing regions and accept offered solutions that acutely afflicted the judges,” said Shawn A. Covell, chief administrator of all-embracing address for QUALCOMM and arch of the Wireless Reach initiative. “We’re aflame to plan with these forward-thinking organizations in accouterment communities with new technologies and capabilities that reinforce their abiding bread-and-butter and amusing development.”

“BREW is advised to advanced wireless abstracts worldwide, authoritative it decidedly able-bodied ill-fitted for developers targeting new markets as allotment of QUALCOMM’s Wireless Reach initiative,” said Peggy Johnson, admiral of QUALCOMM Internet Services and controlling carnality admiral of QUALCOMM. “We’ll absolutely be tracking the advance of admission recipients as they accompany their proposed applications to accomplishment and accomplish them accessible in 2007.”

BREW solutions change the way humans chronicle to wireless abstracts services. By enabling analysis and accumulation of high-value content, BREW creates opportunities for the wireless industry to enhance consumers’ adaptable abstracts experience. QUALCOMM’s absolute and targeted BREW Signature Solutions action bargain time to bazaar and lower basic investment for companies accouterment adaptable articles and services. Customers can aswell account from several modular BREW offerings, including uiOne™, deliveryOne™ and QPoint™, which accommodate the foundation for customer-differentiated wireless abstracts capabilities.

QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a baton in developing and carrying avant-garde agenda wireless communications articles and casework based on CDMA and added beat technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2006 FORTUNE 500® aggregation traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market®

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