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Each year at the beginning of January, technology enthusiasts clamor to be the first to touch, tweet, blog, gossip and play with the latest toys, devices and technology. The Consumer Electronics Show—or simply “CES” to the initiated—plays host to the world of consumer electronics. To the uninitiated, it’s pure chaos.
At Qualcomm, we believe that America’s students should have the same 24/7 access to their learning communities that we have in our work lives. Today, the FCC and the U.S. Department of Education took a big step towards making that a reality with the release of the Digital Textbook Playbook.
A few weeks ago the Qualcomm Life team launched the second Qualcomm Wireless Fitness Challenge (QWFC II), during which our executive team is competing over eight weeks to lose weight and increase activity. By using wireless health and fitness devices to monitor progress with real-time feedback loops, participants are learning to proactively manage their health based on this information.
Learn more about Qualcomm's collaboration with the World Economic Forum to empower people everywhere via mobile connectivity and computing. And keep an eye out for the latest from our execs from Davos this week.
There is a lot happening this week at CES. The awards are already rolling in and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) had its 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honorees displayed Sunday night at a CES press event. One of the honorees, in the Software & Mobile Apps category, was Picitup for its computer vision (CV) based driving safety app, iOnRoad . We know these folks pretty well and we were psyched when they downloaded the FastCV™ SDK, quickly incorporated it into iOnRoad and significantly upped the performance.
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