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Aiding the Policenet By Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | February 8, 2006 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiting Fellow at PNAC, he is the winner of "Spirit of Tiananmen" and "Chan's Journalism" awards in 2005. He has written for Weekly Standard, Asian WSJ, Investor's Business Daily and other publications. FP: Ethan Gutmann, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Gutmann: Thanks Jamie. It’s an honor. FP: Google has just recently agreed to formally censor its China operations to Chinese Communist Party specifications. According...

Verizon Wireless says it will offer live broadcast TV and other video services via a new wireless network that Qualcomm (QCOM) plans to build. Verizon and Qualcomm look to make it easier for cell phone users to watch TV on the go — bringing the companies a new revenue source in the process.

As if the wireless market weren't interesting enough, Qualcomm(Nasdaq: QCOM) just played a trump card on competitors by announcing the acquisition of privately held Flarion Technologies of Bedminster, N.J. The deal commandeers coveted intellectual property in an advanced form of wireless technology that is expected to be the basis of broadband wireless systems well beyond this decade. The deal will cost Qualcomm $600 million in cash and stock up front, with future earn-outs of $200 million also possible. This marks Qualcomm's largest acquisition since it paid $1 billion for Snaptrack's GPS technology in 2000. On the surface, some investors are...

Newly released documents from the Bush administration show that a former member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle has resurfaced inside the new Iraqi government, bringing charges of corruption, bribery and bid-rigging. As a result, millions of U.S. aid dollars and billions in Iraqi government funds have disappeared in an ongoing scandal that is poised to engulf Baghdad and Washington. Worse still, a leading candidate for the top elected post in Iraq has also been implicated in the report as having taken "payoffs" in order to rig a major government cell phone contract. According to a May 2004 U.S. Defense Department...

Qualcomm is Hiring big time. These are just IT jobs. Go to the main page and select 'Careers'. http://jobs.qualcomm.com/staffing/Staffing.asp?page=search_results

Congressman Protests Use of French Marble By ROBERT GEHRKE .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A Colorado congressman is asking the Bush administration to stop making headstones for military veterans from marble bought from a French-owned company. If the Veterans Administration agrees to Rep. Scott McInnis' request, the additional marble would come from two other quarries - one a Swiss-owned operation in the Colorado Republican's district. ``The French have done everything in their power to undermine the very troops whose sacrifice from which they now stand to profit,'' McInnis said in a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J....