Making Over Motorola
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Edward Zander always wanted to be in charge. After 25 years in high technology, including five years as a prominent second banana at Sun Microsystems, Zander got his wish. In January he became chief executive at Motorola, a fallen angel of mobile communications. It used to own the business. It doesn't anymore.
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Motorola wants to position itself for digital-home revolution. Part of the strategy: buying Netopia.
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Motorola Inc has announced that it is starting a new open source project to develop a high-availability operating environment for network equipment providers based on Service Availability Forum standards.
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Motorola Inc , the world's No.  3 mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it is exploring  strategic alternatives including a possible separation of its  mobile devices business from other units.
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Nokia NOK1V.HE aims to regain   popularity among U.S. consumers with advanced devices and   retail stores, but the world's No. 1 cellphone maker may need a   revamp of its devices to dent the lead of Motorola Inc.   MOT.N, analysts said.
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By Keiko Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--Motorola Inc.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan&#39;s top mobile-phone carrier, and Motorola Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 cell-phone maker, plan to develop a next-generation mobile phone that subscribers in Japan can also use while traveling in
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About ten days after saying it was thinking about spinning off its mobile phone business, Motorola's CEO is now talking commitment with his phone business.
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Decision may bring world of wireless peripherals to market.
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Motorola Inc. , the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, said it expects to cut an additional 4,000 jobs, bringing the total to 7,500 this year, as it works to reduce costs to return to profit.
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(InfoWorld) - A troubled Motorola has realigned itself as its criticalÂ cell-phone business slows down. The company sketched out the reorganization in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday, two days before it is set to announce its second-quarter financial results. Last week, Motorola slashed its earlier revenue forecast for the quarter and predicted a larger loss, blaming lower phone sales. It also named a new chief of its mobile unit, Stu Reed. Other recent changes in the executive ranks have also rocked the company. Motorola is now split into three divisions: Mobile Devices, Home and Networks Mobility, and Enterprise Mobility Solutions. The company is moving its Good Technology mobile e-mail software business from the Mobile Devices division into Enterprise Mobility Solutions. Its carrier equipment business has been combined with home broadband products in the Home and Networks Mobility segment with the new enterprise unit focusing on private network products. The Home and Networks Mobility group is responsible for set-top boxes and digital video systems for carriers, home DSL and cable modems, and wired and wireless broadband network gear. The Enterprise group encompasses analog and digital two-way radio and other voice and data communications systems for government, businesses and Motorola's large public safety customer base. Good Technology, whichÂ Motorola acquiredÂ in a deal completed in February, is a mobile messaging platform with enterprise features like centralized lockdown of unwanted applications on the phone. It competes against Research in Motion's BlackBerry system and Nokia's Intellisync technology. After the rousing success of the slim Razr handset, which started out as a premium-priced bauble and quickly became a mass-market commodity, Motorola has had trouble coming out with an encore. A Razr 2 is expected later this year. New handsets from Nokia, Samsung, and LG Electronics had stolen the spotlight even before Apple's iPhone, which debuted June 29, became the talk of the industry. Meanwhile, sales for all makers have stagnated in higher-priced markets like North America and Europe while rising in lower-priced India and China, according to industry analysts. Last Wednesday, Motorola said it expected to report 35 million to 36 million handset sales in the second quarter, down from 45.5 million in the previous quarter. Its revenue forecast dropped from $9.4 billion to between $8.6 billion and $8.7 billion. The company now expects to lose between $0.02 and $0.04 in the quarter.
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Long gone are the days when it was enough for a mobile phone to simply be a phone. Ever since the technology began to emerge to transform handsets into handheld media players, phone manufacturers have been producing these multimedia marvels in droves.
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Dell's no business like mobe business Dell's ardour for the mobile phone business seems very much cooled. When asked yesterday about the company's possible interest in buying up Motorola's mobile phone business, Michael Dell responded that the company is "more focused on the computer business", and wouldn't be drawn further.â¦
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New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the cell phone maker four years ago Â the Razr. But that could be a good thing Â if Brown, who took over Tuesday as chief executive, applies lessons learned from Motorola's nasty fall last year.
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InfoWorld - Motorola may spin off its handset business, the weakest part of a wireless giant that has seen hard times and a management shakeup in recent months.
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Motorola Inc. , the world&#39;s  second-biggest mobile phone maker, said it expects to cut an  additional 4,000 jobs, bringing the total to 7,500 this year,  as it works to reduce costs to return to profit.
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Motorola plans first use of the open-source software in the core of next-generation cell phone networks.