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Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 04 Nov 2007 09:06 PM PST
The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phone stories come thick and fast… Google has signed up Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) as partners reports USA Today citing the ubiquitous “people…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 26 Oct 2007 03:27 AM PST
The latest handset figures for the third quarter are out from Strategy Analytics, and there’s no surprises. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) took 39.2 percent of the market, followed by Samsung with…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 24 Oct 2007 11:28 PM PST
After some major cost cuts and the introduction of new selection of phones to follow up on the RAZR success, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today reported $60 million in net earnings…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 24 Oct 2007 12:28 PM PST
mFoundry, a San Francisco-based provider of mobile banking solutions, has raised a $15 million third round from Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures, PayPal, NCR, along with existing investors and an unidentified…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 17 Oct 2007 09:37 AM PST
Another bit of news has come out on the subject of developers creating applications for the iPhone. BusinessWeek is reporting that “sources familiar with the company’s plans” say that Apple…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 17 Oct 2007 03:55 AM PST
A Q&A with Kenneth “Casey” Keller, the CMO of Motorola, in Advertising Age sheds some light on where Motorola (NYSE: MOT) might be heading next in terms of targeting the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 15 Oct 2007 03:42 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will sell half of its smartphone software unit UIQ (bought from Symbian last year) to Motorola (NYSE: MOT) for an undisclosed sum. “It’s not…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 09 Oct 2007 04:11 PM PST
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CEO Ed Zander has called the $8.1 billion paid by Nokia for Navteq “stunning”, and that Motorola had decided against buying the company because it was a…
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 05:37 AM PST
That Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is focusing on music to sell its handsets in India is pretty obvious from it’s promotional campaigns with Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan. ChicagoBusiness reports that the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 12 Sep 2007 03:10 PM PST
Motorola has launched a consumer-facing site in public beta to showcase the content available on its handsets, which seems to be simply chasing after Nokia (or maybe it just feels…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 11 Sep 2007 07:07 AM PST
Motorola has been roundly criticized for its uninspired handset line-up since the Razr and a few quarters of losses, and in its bid to return to profitability it is aiming…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 14 Aug 2007 03:22 AM PST
It looks like high-time for startups developing technology to move TV viewing to the next generation. A place-shifting concern with only two employees called Inxstor has just secured 600,000 pounds…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 08 Aug 2007 04:16 AM PST
Motorola has released a new mobile Linux platform, dubbed Motomagx. The handset manufacturer plans to get 60 percent of its handset portfolio based on Linux in the next few years……
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 19 Jul 2007 08:10 AM PST
As it warned Motorola has posted a net loss for the second quarter ending June 30, reporting a net loss of $28 million compared to a profit of $1.38 billion…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 15 Jul 2007 02:17 PM PST
As Motorola’s woes continue other manufacturers are on the ascendant. “Samsung churned out 37.4 million handsets in the second quarter, compared with Motorola’s self-projected volume of 35 million to 36…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 12 Jul 2007 08:05 PM PST
There’s a bit of a death-watch going on for Ed Zander’s CEO position at Motorola...an expected outcome of Motorola saying it has lost money and marketshare again in the second…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 11 Jul 2007 04:22 PM PST
Motorola’s mobile handset business continues to plummet, with the #2 mobile phone maker warning that its second quarter results to be posted next week will show around $8.6 billion to…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 11 Jul 2007 06:56 AM PST
Motorola has announced it will buy Somerset, New Jersey-based Leapstone Systems in the third quarter this year—the financial terms were not disclosed. Leapstone produces software that helps carriers create and…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Jul 2007 05:08 PM PST
Fresh off his contribution to Terry Semel’s departure as Yahoo CEO and armed with 130 shares in Motorola, Erik Jackson started a campaign Monday to get rid of Motorola chairman…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 21 Jun 2007 06:46 AM PST
ShoZu has signed a deal with Motorola which will see the photo-uploading applicatoin preloaded onto mobile phones. Initially the ShoZu application will be available for free download to the MotoRizr…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 01 Jun 2007 01:49 AM PST
Motorola has upgraded its Chinese online entertainment portal MotoMusic so it now includes play list creation, management, and sharing, buddy interaction, music guidance articles, mobile phone sections to recommend music…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 May 2007 06:34 AM PST
Motorola is changing its marketing practices for its next set of handsets, according to this Ad Age interview with Casey Keller, chief marketing officer of the handset manufacturer. Motorola will…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 May 2007 12:24 AM PST
A survey by Canalys has shown a moderately strong interest in mobile TV. The online survey was conducted in April among more than 2,000 employed, adult mobile phone users in…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 15 May 2007 10:41 AM PST
Motorola has showcased the phones it hopes will turn around its ailing fortunes. As was predicted by some people, the “Media Monster” forecast by Ed Zander is the Z8 which…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 14 May 2007 05:14 AM PST
Motorola has received a patent for a plug-in mobile attachment intended to allow people to have a pleasant scent near their handsets. The design shows a device that heats a…
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