Strategy Is Shifted at Motorola
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Motorola executives said Friday that they would introduce a series of innovative new cellphones, rather than a âone-hit wonderâ like the Razr.
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The carrier's chief technical officer, Dick Lynch, talks strategy as the mobile industry enters a new era.
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Motorola's mobile-phone business recorded a $138 million loss in the third quarter, with handset revenues declining by 36 percent to $4.5 billion in comparison with the year-earlier period. Nevertheless, Motorola executives remain upbeat about the ailing unit's prospects for returning to profitability, noting that substantial progress has been made during the quarter.
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The wireless phone provider's focus on business spills over into the consumer market.
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BetaNews examines why Nomura financial analyst Richard Windsor toyed with the idea of Motorola surrendering its handset business to focus on enterprise and government solutions.
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Motorola Inc  is aiming to cut its quarterly research and development expenses for mobile devices by about 15 percent by the end of 2007 to try to return to profitability.
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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.The company is &quot;exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices Business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value,&quot; Motorola said in a statement Thursday. &quot;The company&#39;s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses.&quot;The handset unit has had trouble coming up with a successor to the popular Razr phone, and in last year&#39;s third quarter it fell to third place in worldwide sales behind Samsung. But spinning off the division, which forms the largest part of Motorola&#39;s business, would be a drastic move.Motorola had 13 percent of the worldwide handset market in last year&#39;s third quarter, down from a 21 percent share a year earlier, according to Gartner. Samsung had 15 percent and Nokia 38 percent.Thursday&#39;s announcement doesn&#39;t guarantee the handset business will be spun off. CEO Greg Brown said in the statement that Motorola was exploring ways in which the unit can recover faster and retain and attract talent, plus help shareholders &quot;realize the value of this great franchise.&quot;In its fourth-quarter results announced last week, Motorola said the Mobile Devices Business lost $388 million on revenue of $4.8 billion, down from a profit of $341 million on revenue of $7.8 billion a year earlier. 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&#160;Motorola&#39;s acquisition of Symbol Technologies&#160;early last year.Motorola as a whole lost $49 million for the year.&#160;CEO Ed Zander stepped down in late November, replaced by Brown.
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If there's going to be a convergence between the applications you use on your multimedia-enabled cell phone and the ones you use on your digital TV tuner, then Motorola -- which has a big stake in both -- will have to work harder to  bring it about. That's the inspiration behind the next stage of its Motodev developer community, as the company's vice president told BetaNews this week.
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Motorola Inc  reported on  Thursday its first profit in 2007 and gave an outlook that beat  Wall Street expectations, in a sign the mobile phone maker has  started to turn around its business.
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The head of Motorola Inc.'s cell phone business resigned Friday, focusing new attention on a division whose performance has faltered after two years of success fueled by Razr handsets.
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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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Motorola Inc  expects a  challenging year, with recovery in its money-losing mobile  devices business taking longer than expected, Chief Executive  Greg Brown said on Wednesday.
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Motorola mulls breaking up its business as it battles to recover from losses and weak sales.
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Motorola has to find a way to make cool phones that people want to buy, or else face the possibility that its mobile business will be sold off.
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Motorola is to shed an extra 4,000 jobs this year, as it continues efforts to reverse a fall in profits.
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InfoWorld - Motorola&#8217;s Greg Brown was channeling Winston Churchill last week when he announced his company&#8217;s plans to take on the BlackBerry market with wireless devices for all manner of enterprise jobs.
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Ron Garriques, the president of Motorola Inc's mobile devices division, has moved to Dell Inc as Michael Dell continues to make recruitment of new management talent a priority as he aims to transform the performance of his ailing company.