Qualcomm buys Palm patents from HP for undisclosed amount

Cell-phone chip maker Qualcomm Inc. said Thursday it has acquired patents once owned by smartphone maker Palm Inc. from Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed amount. Qualcomm says the purchase covers 1,400 U.S. patents and about 1,000 more foreign patients for the company’s mobile computing technology.   Hewlett-Packard Co. paid $1 billion for Palm in 2010 as […]