Posts Tagged ‘OS platform’

Platform Wars-They Fight, You Lose

As smartphones become an ever-increasingly important segment of the overall mobile phone market, more attention is being focused on the software that runs on these devices – namely, the operating system, the applications and the services. In a very short period of time, 3rd party applications have become all the rage, and the heavy hitters in the smartphone OS space are vying for the attention of these application developers.

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Why is Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Investing in WebKit?

As the Principal Engineer for QuIC’s Web Technology team, one of the most common questions I’m faced with is, “Why is QuIC expending energy to help optimize Webkit?” Perhaps some people feel that actively participating in open source runs contrary to traditional business models. Or, some may even wonder why QuIC doesn’t just sit back and leverage the work of other corporations and the rest of the WebKit community.

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Android Team at Qualcomm Innovation Center

In my five years working as an Engineer in San Diego, the most recent year working at Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has been the most exciting time for me. Mobile technology is creeping into new consumer devices and new 3rd party OS’s are coming up, along with a ton of new mobile apps. It feels good to work at QuIC and to get to be a part of all these developments in some way or the other.

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