Silicon Valley

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(1) Brian Caufield, Qualcomm Is Dialed in. No factories, no phones, No fuss. How CEO Paul Jacobs keeps the cellphone-chip company above the fray. Forbes, Aug , 2012.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bria ... s-wireless-profits/

Quote:

"Every Apple iPhone 4S sold contains $23.54 worth of Qualcomm parts.

"Qualcomm's gross margin of more than 60% is richer than any of its customers', including Apple's.

"Qualcomm grabbed 45% of the $15.1 billion market for wireless modem chips last year.

"Nvidia could be a bigger headache.

Note:
(a) For WCDMA, see W-CDMA (UMTS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-CDMA_(UMTS)
(Wideband Code Division Multiple Access)
Modem chip processor
(0 Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'Em_Sock_'Em_Robots

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots Commercial. YouTube.com, uploaded by planetxmagazine on Jul 20, 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7cx4cQOuU

(2) Peter Burrows, Profiting From Other People's Wi-Fi. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 23, 2012 (title in print)
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... other-peoples-wi-fi
(Devicescape eases data traffic by tapping into public hotspots)

(3) Douglas MacMillan, Take the Day Off, and the Next Month, Too. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 23, 2012
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -unlimited-vacation
("Companies with set vacation policies often struggle to define time off, as workers phone into meetings from the beach or spend half-days with their kids. 'Vacation is not as binary as it used to be, with people being able to work remotely from anywhere,' says Sam Shank, chief executive of hotel booking app Hotel Tonight")

Note: In print:
(a) The summary just underneath the title: Open-ended vacation policies are catching on in Silicon Valley
(b) The summary in Table of Contents: Companies stop counting days off to recruit techies