Motorola buy adds heat to mesh networking
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com November 16, 2004, 1:24 PM PT. Wired &amp; Wireless continues its reign as the top IT priority among IT managers due to widespread IP telephony deployment and other network infrastructure upgrades.
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By Cox, John  Cisco, IBM and two partners have been awarded the contract to build a public 802.11-based wireless mesh that is intended to blanket most of the Silicon Valley peninsula of California, some 1,500 square miles.
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Networking provider upgrades a slew of products so large companies can better connect their workers.
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Motorola said it plans to buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion and make the acquired company &#8220;the cornerstone&#8221; of its enterprise business for mobile and wireless technologies.
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The largest U.S. wireless service provider commits billions to network data speed upgrades.
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A Motorola acquisition and an expected deal from Nortel show the market for mobile ad hoc network equipment is hot.
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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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Company preps single chip WiMax compliant part for use in wireless broadband gear.
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Nortel Networks on Monday declined to comment on a news report that the company is negotiating with Motorola to combine wireless infrastructure units.&quot;Nortel doesn&#39;t comment on rumors and speculation,&quot; a Nortel spokesman said.The two companies are talking as a way to cut costs in a network equipment market that is consolidating and facing stiff competition, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.The deal with Nortel would be separate from Motorola&#39;s announcement last month that it was&#160;considering spinning off its mobile handset business, the Journal reported. Motorola on Jan. 31 announced it was looking at separating the lagging handset division from the rest of its business.A Motorola spokeswoman wasn&#39;t immediately available for comment Monday.A combined wireless infrastructure unit would have sales around $10 billion, the Journal reported. Talks between Motorola and Nortel have been going on for about a month, the news report said, and under one scenario, Nortel would own a majority of the joint venture.Both companies have faced challenges recently. Motorola last month reported a loss of $49 million for 2007, due largely to declining handset sales.But fourth-quarter 2007 sales were up in the Home and Networks Mobility group, which makes set-top boxes and wireless infrastructure. The group saw sales rise 11 percent to $2.7 billion from the fourth quarter of 2006.Last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged seven former Nortel executives with participating in a 2003 accounting fraud by manipulating reserves to manage Nortel&#39;s earnings.Last February, Nortel announced it would lay off 2,900 employees and move another 1,000 jobs to low-cost locations throughout 2007 and 2008.
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Technology behind super-fast wireless networks is close to getting official approval.
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Motorola Inc.  said on Tuesday  it had made an equity investment in privately held Amimon Inc.,  a developer of semiconductor technology for wireless  transmission of high-definition video.
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Motorola Inc. has been selected to provide a &#36;344 million expansion to a wireless network run by China United Telecommunications Corp., or China Unicom, one of the largest network operators in the world.
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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¦
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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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Sprint has awarded a $3 billion contract to Motorola, Nortel and Lucent to upgrade its wireless network to handle high-speed Internet traffic over mobile phones and computers.
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A top networking gear producer plans to offer a speedy new cellular technology that's an alternative to DSL and cable Internet access with the added advantage of being available on the road.    NetGear Inc...
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InfoWorld - Motorola&#39;s venture capital arm has invested in Amimon, an Israeli company that designs chips for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video.