Motorola buys stake in HD video chip designer
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(InfoWorld) - Motorola's venture capital arm has invested in Amimon, an Israeli company that designs chips for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video. Amimon -- a fabless semiconductor company -- designsÂ WHDI (wireless high-definition interface) chip sets, modules, and reference designs. WHDI enables the transmission of an uncompressed video signal between devices such as a digital set-top box and a high-definition TV. Motorola, which did not say how much it invested, said Amimon's work fits in with its own strategy of letting consumers share and access stored media on devices around the home. Motorola said it hopes WHDI, which can be incorporated into other hardware such as wireless projectors, becomes a new industry standard. Amimon said WHDI can project up to 100 feet through walls with a latency of less than one millisecond. WHDI uses the unlicensed 5GHz band and can send uncompressed HD video streams at up to 3Gbps using 40MHz of bandwidth, according to the company's Web site. That complies with the U.S. FCC rules, it said. A slower rate of 1.5Gbps is possible using 20MHz of bandwidth, which conforms to other worldwide spectrum regulations, Amimon said. Amimon's other investors include Argonaut Partners LLC, Cedar Fund, Evergreen Venture Partners, Stata Venture Partners, and Walden Israel Venture Capital.
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Microprocessor designer Arm Holdings buys US tech firm Artisan for about $913m in a deal which the UK firms says will boost its product range.
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Shares of Motorola (MOT:NYSE - news - research) rose Tuesday after Geoffrey Frost, senior vice president of Motorola&#39;s mobile phone division, told Reuters that the company feels &quot;very good&quot; about sales growth during the second half of the year.
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - message board) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nextel Communications Inc.
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Motorola Inc. has agreed to buy MeshNetworks Inc., a developer of technology and products for rapidly deployed, self-creating wireless mobile networks.
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British semiconductor designer ARM Holdings Plc (ARM.L: Quote, Profile, Research) agreed to buy US chip components firm Artisan (ARTI.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  cell phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service  Soundbuzz Pte Ltd. as it looks to stem recent market share  losses.
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Dell Inc.  said on Friday it hired the head of Motorola Inc.'s  mobile phone unit to oversee a new global consumer division, making him the second high-profile executive hired since Michael Dell returned as CEO to the company he founded.
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- Motorola Inc. MOT.N on Tuesday said it agreed   to buy Symbol Technologies Inc. SBL.N for about $3.9 billion   in cash to expand its enterprise capabilities.
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Motorola Inc. is acquiring MeshNetworks Inc., a developer of a Wi-Fi based technology in which a person&#39;s mobile device doubles as a network relay point that can transmit a signal between other devices.
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Mobile phone firm Motorola is buying Symbol Technologies, a maker of barcode scanning systems, for $3.9bn.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Nextel Communications said Monday that it has purchased shares of its own stock and Nextel Partners from Motorola.
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Motorola plans to acquire wireless mobile device developer Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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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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- Motorola Inc.  on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Symbol Technologies Inc.  for about $3.9 billion in cash to expand its enterprise capabilities.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest cell phone maker, on Thursday introduced a mobile  media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips  and programming saved on digital video recorders.
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Beep beep beep - $4bn please Motorola is acquiring industrial mobile-device specialist Symbol in a cash deal worth almost $4bn.â¦