than a dozen workshops covering such topics as developing 3D graphics based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Adreno GPU, writing Web apps with Qualcomm’s HTML5 device API extensions, and using Snapdragon tools for building augmented reality apps.
Qualcomm says this will be the first time it has hosted its own hackathon, but the company has been creating prize competitions for several years—beginning with the QPrize that Qualcomm Ventures created to accelerate wireless technologies in key business sectors. It’s a smart way to encourage development and expand the wireless ecosystem of devices and systems based on Qualcomm’s proprietary technologies.
Qualcomm’s biggest prize, of course, came in January, when CEO Paul Jacobs launched the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, saying the challenge to develop a handheld medical diagnosis device is intended to drive development of mobile wireless health technology for consumers. And maybe help to create a billion-dollar industry, too.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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