SAN DIEGO, Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), today announced it has shared its Device Identification, Registration, and Blocking System (DIRBS) platform as freely downloadable open-source software.

The full release is available on the Qualcomm News Center website at (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/09/17/qualcomm-technologies-inc-shares-dirbs-software-platform-address)

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