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UPDATED: Nokia Offers $410 Million To Buy Up Partners’ Stakes In Symbian - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 23 Jun 2008 08:50 PM PST

UPDATED: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants it all. The Finnish handset maker said today that it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian that it…

Motorola And Kodak Debut Motozine ZN5; Kodak Offers Up Mobile Imaging Technology - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 23 Jun 2008 05:12 AM PST

The Motorola (NYSE: MOT) pipeline hasn’t been exactly flowing lately, but today, the U.S. handset maker announced with its partner Kodak the launch of a new camera phone–the Motozine ZN5.…

@ London Calling: Bundled Music Services “Commoditizing” Music? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 20 Jun 2008 03:07 PM PST

At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobiles that cell phones would one day…

Mobile Developers Still Favor .Net and Java, But The Popularity Of Linux And Android Is Growing - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 20 Jun 2008 11:08 AM PST

One way to look into the future to see which cell phones will be popular is by figuring out what platform developers are building applications for today. Developers tend to…

Sprint Makes It Possible To Be An Email Addict Without A BlackBerry - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 19 Jun 2008 04:37 PM PST

If you were using the excuse that you couldn’t read your corporate email while on-the-go because you didn’t have a BlackBerry, you are now out of luck. Sprint (NYSE: S)…

Motorola’s Spinoff: One Unit To Be Sent To “Poorhouse”? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 16 Jun 2008 05:40 AM PST

A very bleak look at the financials behind Motorola’s decision to hive off its mobile division. According to the WSJ, the handset division is losing so much money that spinning…

Motorola Shakes Up Its Research Labs; Eliminates 120 People And Reassigns 180 More - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 12 Jun 2008 04:25 PM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is cutting the size of its research division in half, by laying off about 120 people and reassigning 180 others to different divisions within the company, according…

Memorylink Sues Moto Over Wireless Video Technology - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 10 Jun 2008 06:27 AM PST

Memorylink is suing Motorola (NYSE: MOT) for fraud, patent infringement and breach of contract over streaming wireless technology that is used today by carriers to transmit video to mobile phones.…

Moto To Offer Full-Length Movies For Download On Handsets In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 Jun 2008 04:00 PM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT), feeling ignored among all the iPhone-mania, has announced a deal of its own: in UK, it has done a deal with Paramount Pictures to offer full-length film…

Motorola Close To Hiring Cellphone Chief; HP Executive Named As Possible Candidate - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 04 Jun 2008 11:15 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is nearing a choice for a head of its soon-to-be independent cellphone unit, Fortune magazine reported yesterday, but today the WSJ reported who the potential candidate is—Hewlett-Packard’s…

Global Mobile Phone Sales Hit 294.3 Million In Q1; Motorola And Western Europe See Weakness: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 28 May 2008 11:52 AM PST

Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 percent increase over the first quarter of 2007, Gartner reported today, but the news…

Videocon Emerges As Buyer For Motorola’s Handset Division Emerges; In Early Talks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 23 May 2008 08:21 AM PST

Videocon said today it was in early talks to buy Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) handset division, according to the Business Standard. Videocon, a consumer electronics company, said it made a bid…

Mobile Content Bits: Sony Ericsson And Usher; m.friendster.com; Sprint’s Instinct; ShoZu’s NowPublic - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 12:41 PM PST

-- Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that it will be partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist Usher and AT&T (NYSE: T) to market Sony Ericsson’s Walkman music phones…

Intrinsyc Software Buys GPS Navigation Company - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 20 May 2008 09:11 AM PST

Intrinsyc Software, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that uses Windows Embedded CE to make software for mobile phones, said today it has acquired certain assets of Destinator Technologies for $8.5 million…

Industry Moves: Rich Nottenburg, Chief Strategy And Technology Officer Leaves Motorola - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 17 May 2008 07:59 PM PST

Another high-flying Motorola (NYSE: MOT) executive has left the company...Rich Nottenburg, chief strategy and technology officer, has “left to return to the New York area to be with his family…

Motorola Provides Updated “White Spaces” Device To FCC For Review - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 09:09 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) planned again to try and show the FCC that a device can operate on unlicensed TV spectrum, called the “white spaces” without causing interference. They planned to…

Sprint Nextel Says The iDen Network Stays; Aims To Have 40 New Push-To-Talk Markets Soon - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 06:32 PM PST

One of the big questions for Sprint (NYSE: S) right now is what it will do with its Nextel network—spin it off, turn it off, or invest in it to…

Icahn Ups Stake In Motorola To 7.6 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 07 May 2008 05:01 AM PST

Activist investor Carl Icahn has raised his stake in Motorola (NYSE: MOT) to 7.6 percent from 6.4 percent according to and SEC filing on Wednesday, reports Reuters. Icahn and affiliates…

HTC Launches iPhone Killer Touch Diamond; Can Apple’s iPhone Distribution Model Last? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 06 May 2008 12:31 PM PST

Another handset manufacturer turning to the mobile internet to boost sales. Today, at a splashy launch at the smart Soho Hotel in London, Peter Chou, president and CEO of Taiwanese…

Motorola Chief Greg Brown Takes Heat From Angry Investors - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 06 May 2008 01:42 AM PST

Pretty soon Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CEO Greg Brown will be able to trademark the gritted-teeth smile. At the company’s annual meeting on Monday, angry shareholders blasted Brown over the struggling…

LG And Samsung’s “Breakneck Pace” Too Much For Motorola? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 05:41 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the world’s dominant handset maker, but Motorola should be more worried about its fleet-footed Korean rivals, LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung, according to an in-depth…

Adobe Sets Flash Free; Aims For 40 Percent Mobile Penetration By Year’s End - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 04:08 AM PST

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…

Moto’s Marketshare Went To Incumbent Handset Vendors, Not New Entrants: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 07:33 AM PST

There has been some shuffling in the marketshare of the top five handset manufacturers, but no major change in new entrants according to Strategy Analytics. Although Motorola (NYSE: MOT) lost…

Motorola And Paramount Building Online Movie Store - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:14 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Paramount are building an online store for downloading films to mobile phones, reports NMA.co.uk, citing an unnamed Paramount source. The site is expected to launch at…

Motorola’s “Truce” With Icahn Just “Window Dressing”? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 24 Apr 2008 07:26 AM PST

How much does Motorola (NYSE: MOT) management hate Carl Icahn? USAToday has a lengthy interview with CEO Greg Brown over all the usual talking points. Yes, the handset division is…