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Qualcomm is best known for its cellphone technologies and chipsets; flip over your handset and you may see the company’s name on the back of your device. It’s fair to assume Chief Executive Paul Jacobs will talk about the latest phones and tablets Qualcomm is powering during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote presentation.
But since this is CES, the world’s biggest tech exhibition, Jacobs will also link Qualcomm’s businesses to broader themes like economic development in emerging markets. Cellphones, after all, can be empowering tools for people who would otherwise lack affordable, ready access to the Internet.
CES is a useful platform for Qualcomm, which has been diversifying into other forms of connectivity, such as smart grid services and wireless charging. Qualcomm tells me it sees this CES presentation as a way to show it is much more than a chip company. For a live-blog of Jacobs’ speech, which begins at 8:30 am PT, read on:
8:35 am: Beginning a little late. It’s a big crowd. Consumer Electronics Association President/Chief Executive Gary Shapiro will be on stage with Jacobs.
8:38 am: First, a video with some CES 2012 stats. There are more than 140,000 attendees and 3,300 exhibitors here. Though Forbes has been in Vegas for two days now, this keynote is the opening keynote and marks the show’s official kickoff.
8:40 am: Shapiro is on stage, talking up the consumer electronics industry’s ability to create jobs, encourage innovation in other industries and save lives.
8:43 am: Shapiro doing a quick recap of 2011 tech news. Mentions Steve Jobs‘ legacy: “[He] burnished the concept of innovator as hero.”
8:48 am: Shapiro is basically talking about each special zone, summit or conference here at CES, like car tech and health & fitness, and making the case for why each is important.
8:50 am: SOPA shoutout. Shapiro warns against what he calls over-aggressive attempts to curb Internet piracy and describes SOPA opposition as a “populist” “nerd army”. This bit attracts applause.
