Motorola poised to offload mobile biz
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Sell it or spin it off? Motorola is considering various options to sort out its mobile phone division which lost the company $1.2bn in 2007.â¦
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Motorola Inc.  said  on Tuesday it would start selling the Motofone, its thinnest  phone yet in high-growth emerging markets in a bid to compete  better against bigger rival Nokia (NOK1V.HE).
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Motorola Inc  said on Monday  it is "fully committed" to its mobile phone business and its  strategic review is aimed at bringing about a "product-led"  recovery for the loss-making division.
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Motorola&#39;s mobile-phone business continued to lose its signal in the fourth quarter, dragging the company&#39;s revenue and profit down.
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Motorola plans to sell mobile phone network equipment that uses Linux-based code, a step forward in network gear makers&#39; efforts to rally around a standard.
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A troubled Motorola Inc. has realigned itself as its critical cell-phone business slows down.
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NEW YORK - Like a boxer shedding pounds to get to his fighting weight, Motorola is trimming down to take on the mobile phone market, shedding jobs and spinning off divisions.
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Motorola said yesterday it would cut 1,000 jobs, as the company continues to refocus on its core mobile phone business. It said some positions being cut were related to the Freescale Semiconductor division that Motorola is in the process of spinning off.
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Motorola Inc. is the latest company to move towards adding a payment function based on Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology to its line of cell phones, the company announced Tuesday.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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Motorola Inc , which has  recently lost cell phone market share, is introducing a mobile  device for playing live television to expand its reach in  portable consumer electronics.
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MOBILE PHONE giant Motorola is experimenting with putting credit cards and payment functions on their line of mobiles. Under the bonnet of the cunning plan is Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology which is a short-range wireless system.
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With a view to focusing on its wireless business, Motorola Inc. said it plans to slash 1,000 jobs, or 1 percent of its staff, and absorb charges of about $50 million.
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Motorola plans to carry out a trial of cell phones incorporating MasterCard&#39;s PayPass contactless payment technology. The cell phones will enable customers to make payments by positioning
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Motorola is working with MasterCard to introduce a "lifestyle changing" credit card phone by year's end.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorolaâs Greg Brown was channeling Winston Churchill last week when he announced his companyâs plans to take on the BlackBerry market with wireless devices for all manner of enterprise jobs. âWe will address the needs of mobile workers in the office, out in the field, in the factory, at retail, and across the supply chain,â said Brown, president of Motorolaâs network and enterprise business. Hey! What about âon the landing groundsâ? But big talk was the order of the day, as Brown tried to explain what Motorola hopes to do after it digests its $3.9 billion acquisition of Symbol Technologies. Symbolâs stock and trade is handheld computers and bar-code scanners used to capture data in warehouses and factories. If you have signed for a UPS package recently, the chances are you did so on a Symbol device. Motorolaâs specialty, on the other hand, is WANs. The plan is to join the two and push more wireless data devices into all corners of the enterprise by cutting across devices, infrastructure, applications, and services, Brown said. âSymbolâs strength in capturing, moving, and managing data inside the building directly complements â¦ Motorolaâs network capabilities outside of the building,â Brown said. Motorola is already envisioning the types of products and services it will be able to offer. For example, Symbol is a leader in RFID, the short-range wireless technology that companies are just beginning to use to track products and assets. Motorola would like to expand RFIDâs reach by combining cellular, Wi-Fi, WiMax, and RFID in a way that can help enterprises track products throughout their lifecycles, spanning private networks inside offices and public networks outside, said Ed Zander, Motorolaâs chairman and chief executive. Symbol is developing wireless devices catering to various industries, such as medical, transportation, and retail. âI looked at all the devices and imagined the Wi-Fi and WiMax play,â Zander said. Motorola also sees opportunities in Symbolâs enterprise WLAN business. Symbol has deployed 45,000 such networks that will eventually need to be upgraded to higher speeds. And there are still lots of enterprises that have yet to install their first wireless networks, Zander added.
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Motorola Inc. will cut 1,000 jobs worldwide and take a charge of $50 million for severance benefits, officials said Tuesday. Motorola is completing a spinoff of its chip operations, now operating independently
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Motorola is completing a spinoff of its chip operations, now operating independently as Freescale Semiconductor. A Motorola spokeswoman says that has made some corporate positions unnecessary.