Motorola to acquire MeshNetworks
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Motorola has agreed to buy MeshNetworks, a developer of technology and products for rapidly deployed, self-creating wireless mobile networks.
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Motorola will acquire online music store Soundbuzz in a bid to expand its mobile music offerings in Asia, the company said Monday.&quot;Soundbuzz will become part of the Motorola entertainment family,&quot; said Ian Chapman-Banks, vice president of marketing at Motorola Asia-Pacific&#39;s mobile devices unit, at a press conference in Singapore.Terms of the deal, which is expected to close during the current quarter, were not disclosed.Motorola hopes the acquisition of privately held Soundbuzz will make it the top online music seller in Asia, Chapman-Banks said, citing Soundbuzz&#39;s existing relationships with recording companies as well as mobile operators in India, Australia, Singapore, and other countries in Asia.The Soundbuzz acquisition will complement&#160;Motorola&#39;s own mobile music service, called MotoMusic, which is available in China, Chapman-Banks said.For its part, Soundbuzz is counting on Motorola&#39;s backing to expand its reach in Asia. &quot;Through the resources we&#39;re going to have access to, it&#39;s going to help us expand our offerings,&quot; said Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Soundbuzz&#39;s CEO, without disclosing details of the company&#39;s plans.Soundbuzz offers mobile downloads based on OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) DRM (digital rights management) technology. An online music store for PCs operated by the company offers music downloads based on DRM technology developed by Microsoft.The use of OMA DRM for mobile downloads, such as ringtones and ringback tones, means Soundbuzz&#39;s mobile download service will continue to support handsets made by a variety of companies, not just Motorola, Sarronwala said.Both the PC music store and the mobile-download service will continue to operate as usual following the Motorola acquisition, Sarronwala said.
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Motorola Inc. is acquiring MeshNetworks Inc., developer of a technology that makes it easy to set up and expand wireless networks, in a deal expected to help the world's No. 2 cell phone maker win more government business.
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Motorola, No. 2 maker of mobile telephones, and NTT DoCoMo, the world&#39;s second-largest wireless carrier, will jointly develop handsets to attract business customers in Japan.
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InfoWorld - Motorola has agreed to acquire Leapstone Systems, which makes software that helps carriers create and deliver services for wired and wireless networks.
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NTT DoCoMo is looking to boost its services to business users in Japan with a new, more advanced handset. It has signed a deal with Motorola to jointly develop a FOMA handset targeting business users and taking
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TOKYO: Motorola and NTT DoCoMo, Japan&#39;s top mobile phone operator, said yesterday they would jointly develop third-generation (3G) handsets, giving Motorola a way into a market largely out of reach for foreign manufacturers.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb. 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc.  today announced that it has signed an agreement with Neotel, South Africa's second national operator, for Radio Frequency (RF) planning of its WiMAX and CDMA wireless networks in South Africa.
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Motorola Inc. is acquiring MeshNetworks Inc., a developer of a Wi-Fi based technology in which a person's mobile device doubles as a network relay point that can transmit a signal between other devices.
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Motorola Inc.  on Tuesday said  it will buy Symbol Technologies Inc. , a maker of bar  code and inventory scanning technology, for about $3.9 billion  to boost sales of wireless handheld devices to corporate  customers.
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US mobile phone giant Motorola has announced plans to buy technology infrastructure group Symbol Technologies in a 3.9 billion-dollar deal.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorola has agreed to acquire Leapstone Systems, which makes software that helps carriers create and deliver services for wired and wireless networks. Terms of the deal were not announced. Privately held Leapstone, in Somerset, New Jersey, was founded in 2001 and counts AT&T and Verizon among its customers. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. Leapstone's CCE (Communications Convergence Engine) is a service delivery platform that can be used for many types of services, including fast-growing technologies like IPTV and VoIP. Telecommunications service providers and cable operators are bundling voice, video, data, and mobile services so they can offer subscribers new applications and make them more loyal. This "three-screen" strategy lets them serve customers on their TVs, PCs, and 3GÂ cell phones. For example, a carrier with both an IPTV and a cellular service might let subscribers watch some shows on their TV or their mobile phone. The Leapstone acquisition gives Motorola an overarching service delivery system for all these services. CCE complements Motorola's Global Applications Management Architecture, which is specific to mobile networks and will continue to be used for certain mobile functions, said Sean Matthews, a senior director of strategy at Motorola. The services created and delivered with CCE would not be specific to Motorola's own broadband set-top boxes, he said. Leapstone's 75 employees, who work at a Canadian development center and other facilities as well as in Somerset, all will join Motorola, Matthews said.
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Motorola Inc. MOT.N on Monday said   it bought privately held video technology developer Vertasent   LLC to expand its product and customer base in the cable   television provider market.
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Motorola said on Thursday it has extended for three years a deal to supply Nextel Communications with telecommunications equipment, allaying fears that Sprint buyout of Nextel would threaten the relationship.
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NTT DoCoMo and Motorola have announced a deal to jointly develop a third-generation handset for business users, marking the American company&#39;s first major foray into the lucrative Japanese mobile phone market.
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Motorola Inc.'s venture capital arm  aims to boost its investments to more than $100 million this  year, betting on technologies including automotive electronics,  high-speed wireless communications, and advanced optical  systems, its chief told Reuters.
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IBM Corp. has agreed to acquire content integration software maker Venetica Corp., a move that continues IBM's pattern of snapping up its business partners to augment its software portfolio.