News of Note—Qualcomm, Microsoft, Linux Foundation

Here are some other stories we're following today:

> Qualcomm Technologies EVP Cristiano Amon said he believes “without a doubt” 5G can be a commercial reality as soon as early 2019. Mobile World Live video

> Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized the closed nature of mobile app stores and said the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence should be an open ecosystem. Business Insider article

> The Linux Foundation announced Open Source Networking Days, a series of free regional events hosted and organized by local open source networking communities and The Linux Foundation members and projects including ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, DPDK, FD.io, PNDA and more. Linux Foundation blog post