Motorola adds 2 new Razr phones
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Motorola Inc. introduced two additions to its Razr phone family at its annual analysts' meeting, hoping they will be hits during the end-of-year holiday shopping season.
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Today, Motorola announced two new 802.16e devices, one for fixed connectivity, and one that's somewhat more nomadic.
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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 , 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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Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. cell phone maker, more than quadrupled its third-quarter earnings to &#36;479 million thanks largely to new handsets that boosted its sales by 26 percent.
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Motorola Inc , the world&#039;s  second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it had  agreed to buy Britain&#039;s TTP Communications , which  develops software for 3G applications, for 103 million pounds  (&#36;193.5 million).
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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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Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled two new cell phones Wednesday, pushing deeper into the lucrative cell phone arena and broadening the array of equipment it can sell to large companies.
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T-Mobile USA is updating its Sidekick cell phones, adding a high-end model and the first Motorola-built entry in the line of quirky gadgets with a screen that swivels to reveal a keyboard.
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'Kick slider' successor, the Z10, kicks butt CES Motorola launched it's successor to the impressive "kick slider" Z8 - reviewed here - the Z10 at CES in Las Vegas. First seen in May last year, the Z8 was a packed full of features... and the Z10 is no less so.â¦
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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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Motorola&#39;s mobile-phone business continued to lose its signal in the fourth quarter, dragging the company&#39;s revenue and profit down.The Schaumburg, Illinois, company has had trouble coming up with a phone to match the success of its original Razr, which is now several years old and does little for the company&#39;s bottom line. Motorola&#39;s Mobile Devices unit had sales of $4.8 billion in the fourth quarter, down from $7.8 billion a year earlier, and the division lost $388 million compared with profit of $341 million in last year&#39;s fourth quarter.Stronger results with enterprise and home-network products eased Motorola&#39;s pain, but the company still reported a steep fall in profit for the quarter and a loss for the full year 2007. In the fourth quarter, Motorola had net income of $100 million and earnings per share of $0.04, down from $529 million or $0.25 a year earlier. The company lost $49 million or $0.02 per share for the year. Companywide, revenue in the quarter fell to $9.6 billion from $11.8 billion a year earlier.The outlook for the current quarter is no better. Along with Wednesday&#39;s earnings report, Motorola forecast a loss of between $0.05 per share and $0.07 per share, excluding charges associated with its cost-reduction initiatives and other items.&quot;The recovery in Mobile Devices will take longer than expected and there is a lot more work to be done,&quot; CEO Greg Brown said in a prepared statement. The company&#39;s &quot;primary focus&quot; is to improve profits and enhance its mobile products, he added. Motorola is also focused on reducing costs and took several steps to make the Mobile Devices business more efficient, he said.Once locked in a struggle with Nokia for cell-phone sales leadership,&#160;Motorola had fallen to third place&#160;behind Samsung by last year&#39;s third quarter. Last May, when it introduced the Razr&#39;s successor, called the Razr2, the company said it hoped the new device would cut losses. But tough times have continued in the face of Apple&#39;s iPhone and other high-profile competitors, and in late November,&#160;CEO Ed Zander was replaced by Brown.Fourth-quarter sales were up in both the Home and Networks Mobility group, which makes set-top boxes and wireless infrastructure, and in Enterprise Mobility, which benefitted from Motorola&#39;s acquisition of Symbol Technologies early last year. The home business saw sales rise 11 percent to $2.7 billion, though its profit fell to $192 million. Profit in the home business soared to $451 million from $323 million in the fourth quarter of 2006, while sales were up 35 percent to $2.1 billion.In midday trading Wednesday, Motorola&#39;s shares on the New York Stock Exchange were down $2.32 to $10.00 amid a generally weak day on Wall Street.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorola plans to acquire wireless mobile device developer Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. Symbol makes a range of devices for businesses, including handheld computers that may include bar code scanners, RFID (radio frequency identification) technologies and WiFi. They are widely used by workers in warehouses and large retail outlets, and by delivery services. The acquisition would fit with Motorola's history as a developer of mobile phones and two-way radios, and advances its push into companies' mobile computing strategies, it said. Motorola has traditionally catered to businesses, notably with is push-to-talk technology used by Nextel in the U.S., and with its Canopy broadband wireless infrastructure business. While Symbolâs products have a broad customer base the company has faced hurdles in the past few years. In 2004, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined Symbol $37 million fine for fraudulent accounting practices. Eleven executives were charged with securities fraud including the former chief executive, who subsequently fled the U.S. Rumors had surfaced over the past few days that Symbol was looking for a buyer. The deal is expected to close later this year or early in 2007, subject to regulatory and other approvals. Symbol will become a Motorola subsidiary and continue to operate from its headquarters in Holtsville, N.Y.
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Motorola said Monday it had released Good Mobile Messaging 5, the first new version of the software since its acquisition of the company in November of last year.
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Motorola&#039;s latest phone, out this week, shares its name with the iconic gadget guru of the James Bond movies: Q.
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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.
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RAZR phones fail to slice into new markets Motorola has announced another round of layoffs - 4,000 to add to the 3,500 jobs it slashed in January.â¦