Motorola and Metrologic lay down arms
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Season of goodwill to all IT companies Motorola and Metrologic have settled a half-decade long patent dispute, which the comms giant inherited when it bought Symbol Technologies almost a year ago.â¦
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Motorola, the world&#39;s second largest mobile phone maker, is cutting 1,000 jobs although its core cellphone business will be unaffected.
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Lays off half the staff Motorola is pruning its Cambridgeshire presence by laying off 155 people at TTPCom, the technology firm snapped up by the American phone manufacturer in March 2006.â¦
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Motorola Inc., the world&#39;s second-largest maker of mobile phones, will cut 1,000 jobs as the company prepares to spin off its computer-chip business, costing $50 million in severance payments.
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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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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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The layoffs come as Motorola completes the spinoff of its semiconductor division. Also: Akimbo Systems signs a deal for content from Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System & hellip;. PalmSource introduces a smart phone operating system & hellip;. and more.
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Consumers needing a cell phone or accessories on the run have a new option now that Motorola Inc. has rolled out a series of what the company calls "robotic stores."
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Are there more changes ahead for Motorola?
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Motorola Inc.'s investors were placated for at least a day Â and sent its battered stock soaring 10.3 percent Friday Â after the company signaled it may get out of its trademark cell-phone business.
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CHICAGO - Shoppers craving the latest Motorola Inc. cell phones and accessories will be able to buy them at automated sales machines being installed in nearly two dozen malls and airports nationwide.
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Plus: Motorola shares rise after profit beats estimates...Electronics sales push Sony to profit...CNET reports deeper loss...STMicro sees market recovery.
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Motorola is taking a pass on producing 802.11n products until the standard is fully ratified, the company told ZDNet UK on Friday. Officials say they would rather wait for the final standard to be worked out.
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After Nokia announced plans to acquire open source technology maker Trolltech earlier in the week, Motorola ended the week by showing its support for open source technology, while also stating how it will shift away from Trolltech technologies.
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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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By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Business Writer  Goodbye, analog.  Or shall we say, good riddance? At least that could be what executives at the mobile phone service providers are thinking.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorolaâs Greg Brown was channeling Winston Churchill last week when he announced his companyâs plans to take on the BlackBerry market with wireless devices for all manner of enterprise jobs. âWe will address the needs of mobile workers in the office, out in the field, in the factory, at retail, and across the supply chain,â said Brown, president of Motorolaâs network and enterprise business. Hey! What about âon the landing groundsâ? But big talk was the order of the day, as Brown tried to explain what Motorola hopes to do after it digests its $3.9 billion acquisition of Symbol Technologies. Symbolâs stock and trade is handheld computers and bar-code scanners used to capture data in warehouses and factories. If you have signed for a UPS package recently, the chances are you did so on a Symbol device. Motorolaâs specialty, on the other hand, is WANs. The plan is to join the two and push more wireless data devices into all corners of the enterprise by cutting across devices, infrastructure, applications, and services, Brown said. âSymbolâs strength in capturing, moving, and managing data inside the building directly complements â¦ Motorolaâs network capabilities outside of the building,â Brown said. Motorola is already envisioning the types of products and services it will be able to offer. For example, Symbol is a leader in RFID, the short-range wireless technology that companies are just beginning to use to track products and assets. Motorola would like to expand RFIDâs reach by combining cellular, Wi-Fi, WiMax, and RFID in a way that can help enterprises track products throughout their lifecycles, spanning private networks inside offices and public networks outside, said Ed Zander, Motorolaâs chairman and chief executive. Symbol is developing wireless devices catering to various industries, such as medical, transportation, and retail. âI looked at all the devices and imagined the Wi-Fi and WiMax play,â Zander said. Motorola also sees opportunities in Symbolâs enterprise WLAN business. Symbol has deployed 45,000 such networks that will eventually need to be upgraded to higher speeds. And there are still lots of enterprises that have yet to install their first wireless networks, Zander added.