EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: Qualcomm, the company that brought you ubiquitous mobility, is now oil a quest to connect all things to the Net

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Incoming CEO Mollenkopf believes a similar opportunity applies to the Internet of Things. "Our ambitions are to really be much more pervasive, not only in the phone space but in whatever replaces the PC, whatever happens in the home, in the car," he says. "But we also know that those things will be running some form of smart-phone ecosystem, and it's going to be connected all the time, and it's very likely going to be through some sort of Qualcomm technology." And so just as Apple took the smartphone further than Qualcomm ever could with the pdQ, other companies will build the software, apps, watches, and, yes, even the butt sensors that will power the Internet of Things. And that's just fine with Qualcomm. Put another way: Heads we win, tails we win.