Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect to a cellular network that uses one type of technology, say GSM, then when it wants to support something totally different, like CDMA, it can just by shifting a few bits around. It’s been the Holy Grail for mobile phone manufacturers, to be able to shove one of these into a handset, but problems such as power consumption and heat have prevented the technology from taking off. Qualcomm is no stranger to software defined radios. They sell a product dubbed “Gobi” that goes inside many high end enterprise laptops as it supports literally every networking standard on the planet.
Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.
Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.
[Photo via IEEE]
End ED — From the Left!
It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.
Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:
Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.
Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:
First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.
Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.
But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.
Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.
In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?
Who needs it, indeed!
As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.
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Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect to a cellular network that uses one type of technology, say GSM, then when it wants to support something totally different, like CDMA, it can just by shifting a few bits around. It’s been the Holy Grail for mobile phone manufacturers, to be able to shove one of these into a handset, but problems such as power consumption and heat have prevented the technology from taking off. Qualcomm is no stranger to software defined radios. They sell a product dubbed “Gobi” that goes inside many high end enterprise laptops as it supports literally every networking standard on the planet.
Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.
Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.
[Photo via IEEE]
End ED — From the Left!
It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.
Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:
Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.
Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:
First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.
Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.
But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.
Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.
In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?
Who needs it, indeed!
As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.
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Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect to a cellular network that uses one type of technology, say GSM, then when it wants to support something totally different, like CDMA, it can just by shifting a few bits around. It’s been the Holy Grail for mobile phone manufacturers, to be able to shove one of these into a handset, but problems such as power consumption and heat have prevented the technology from taking off. Qualcomm is no stranger to software defined radios. They sell a product dubbed “Gobi” that goes inside many high end enterprise laptops as it supports literally every networking standard on the planet.
Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.
Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.
[Photo via IEEE]
End ED — From the Left!
It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.
Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:
Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.
Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:
First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.
Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.
But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.
Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.
In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?
Who needs it, indeed!
As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.
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