Got a Verizon Moto X 2014 edition? Android 5.0 is ready for you
While some Google Nexus devices are still waiting for Android 5.0, Motorola continues to chug along with software upgrades. An over-the-air upgrade…
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Want to order a Cyber Monday discounted Moto X? Good luck with that
Motorola’s website couldn’t handle the strain of customers looking to score a discounted Moto X smartphone. Various server errors and incorrect pricing have turned what should have been a big win into a bit of an embarrassment for a Google company.
Point, Apple: Motorola must wait on iOS ban in Germany
The legal tennis match over smartphone patents is still dragging on, and it was Apple’s turn Monday to claim victory in a dispute in Germany. A court ruled that Motorola can’t enforce an injunction that would have banned the iPhone and iPad in Germany, although Apple still faces a problem involving a different Motorola patent.
Motorola Prepares To Hail New Google Overlords
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is still waiting for the Chinese government to approve its purchase of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility, but it
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Motorola Cutting 800 Jobs As Smartphone Group Still Seeing Red
Around 800 workers at Motorola (NYSE: MMI) won’t ever get to experience life as a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) employee, unless they join the search…
Video: Staci D. Kramer On PBS: Google-Motorola About More Than Smartphones
Our editor Staci D. Kramer appeared on PBS’ NewsHour with Jeffrey Brown and Forrester’s Charles Golvin earlier this week to talk about the r…
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Google-Motorola: Our Coverage In Links
This morning, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced the largest deal in its history by purchasing Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion in…
Smartphone, Xoom Shipments Up At Motorola, But Division Losing Money
Motorola (NYSE: MMI) exceeded analyst estimates for revenue and earnings per share during its second quarter, according to numbers released…
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Motorola Rebound Taking Place With First Quarter Of Growth In Four Years
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based handset maker shipped 3.8 million smart…
Motorola Plans For Reverse Stock Split As Part Of Phone Division Spinoff
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is planning to conduct a reverse stock split to boost the company’s share price following the spinoff of its mobile-pho…
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Video: Motorola Droid 2 — Nice Keyboard!
The Motorola Droid is the top-selling phone on the hottest platform (Android), a winning combination for Motorola and Verizon. In this video you see how the Droid 2 improves on the original in the areas that make sense, while leaving the popular form the same.
Another Day, Another Droid
Verizon Wireless has unveiled its latest phone running the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android operating system under the very popular Droid brandin…
Droid 2 On Sale Tomorrow — R2-D2 Version Later
Motorola and Verizon are opening up the hangar doors tomorrow for online sales of the Droid 2. The successor to the Droid has improved hardware and Android 2.2 running the show, with mobile hotspot as an optional service. It will be in stores on Aug. 12.
No Jackets Needed: Motorola Sells 2.7 Million Smartphones In Q2
Demonstrating Motorola’s increasing confidence in the smartphone sector, the company bought a full-page advertisement in The New York Times…
Nokia Siemens Snaps Up Motorola Network Assets For $1.2 Billion
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens Networks has agreed to purchase most of Motorola’s telecom infrastructure unit this morning for $1.2 billion in ca…
Motorola’s Handset Division May Be On Its Own Faster Than Thought
Motorola’s plan to split into two may happen faster than expected if Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens successfully bids for Motorola’s equipment ar…
Motorola Announces New Names For The Company And They Are Fairly Generic
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has hit another milestone in achieving its goal of splitting the company into two by the first quarter of next year –…
How to Build a Popular Mobile Device
On iPhone launch day, it is appropriate to give some thought to what makes a mobile device successful in the mainstream market. The person on the street rarely pays attention to the technical aspects of a device, and they are the real target you must reach.
Motorola’s Split To Favor Cellphone Business
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Industry Moves: Motorola Taps Former Analyst To Head Mobile Strategy
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has appointed former financial analyst John Bucher to lead the strategy of its mobile devices and home business units,…
Android This Week: Hottest Ticket in Town
Android phones are flying off the shelves, with both Motorola and Verizon — maker of the Droid and carrier for the Incredible, respectively — claiming that supply can’t keep up with demand. HTC EVO 4G owners can get all-day battery life with some simple steps.
Motorola Sold 2.3 Million Smartphones In Q1
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) sold slightly more smartphones in the first quarter, but it was the home division that helped Motorola to swing to a pr…
Google, Tech Firms: Data Center Efficiency Standard Could Stifle Innovation
While Google has been a strong supporter of green data centers, the search engine giant, along with a group of tech companies, are protesting one specific data center efficiency standard: the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Motorola Devour Hands On Review
Motorola is the phone maker that has not rested since jumping on the Android train. They must want to keep up with the frantic pace that Google is setting with Android. Motorola’s latest member of the Android family is the Devour, a smartphone with MotoBlur.
Motorola Break-Up Plans May Include Relocating Handset Business To California
Now that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has made its break-up plans public, it’s clear it won’t be completed without a number of painful decisions.…
AT&T's Android Moves Boost Motorola
AT&T will join the crowded Android bandwagon next month with the release of Motorola’s Backflip. That’s very good news for the handset manufacturer, which has struggled in recent weeks following its Droid launch thanks to the release of Google’s Nexus One.
Motorola To Break Into Two Publicly Held Companies By Early 2011
After years of debating what to do, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has decided to break the company in two. The separation is targeted for the first q…
Motorola Misses Expectations; Sales Down 20 Percent
Motorola’s stock is down more than 12 percent today, after the company’s quarterly results fell short of expectations. The company said its…
Several Suitors Are Reportedly Interested In Motorola’s Set-Top Business
Several private equity firms and Arris, a cable gear supplier, which recently paid $20 million for Digeo, have expressed interest in purchas…
A Sneak Peek At Motorola’s Forthcoming App Store
Another day, another branded app store enters the market … This time it’s Motorola (NYSE: MOT), though the news has leaked before the comp…
Motorola Buys RadioFrame Division For Undisclosed Terms
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) said it is buying a division of privately held RadioFrame Networks, which makes network equipment for Sprint’s Nextel d…
Report: Motorola Considers $4.5 Billion Spin-Off Of Set-Top Box Business
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) now has its sights set on selling a division responsible for building set-top boxes and other cable and phone equipment…
MobileTechRoundup 189 — Droid has landed
MoTR 189 is 36:05 minutes long and is a 34.7 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and…
Motorola Beats Expectations; Appoints Permanent CFO
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Droid Takes Center Stage With Launch; Verizon Sales Start Nov. 6
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) have taken the wraps off Droid, its first Android phone. The handset, which runs on And…
Exclusive: Motorola Confirms It Will Launch Android Devices at Mobilize 09
Motorola (s MOT) yesterday sent out an invitation to what many bloggers assumed to be the launch of its hotly anticipated Android…
What's On September 10?
Motorola (s MOT) sent out an invite (with an Android logo) to members of the media asking them to RSVP for a…
Broadband Content Bits: Sony's UK Movie Downloads; Motorola-Blockbuster; Bebo's Fashion Show; BBC
— Sony (NYSE: SNE) movie downloads: European PS3 and PSP owners will be able to download full-length movies from November. Sony is rolling…
Earnings: Motorola Makes Surprise Profit Even Before Turnaround Devices Hit Shelves For Holidays
Motorola (NYSE: MOT), the fourth largest handset manufacturer in the world, reported a surprise profit in the second quarter, but it had mor…
Industry Moves: Motorola Appoints Samsung Exec To Lead Mobile Devices Marketing
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has appointed William Ogle to the position of chief marketing officer for Motorola’s Mobile Devices business. In the po…
Headhunter Speaks Out About Ongoing Lawsuit Between Motorola And Ex-CFO
There’s been no shortage of surprises when it comes to the lawsuit between Schaumburg-based Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and its former CFO Paul Lis…
Report: Disney’s Shamrock Holdings In Talks With Motorola To Buy Israeli Mobile Operator MIRS
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Palm, Apple, Nokia, Others Launching Back-To-Back Iconic Phones This Summer
The summer of 1967 will always be known as the “Summer of Love,” but perhaps 2009 will go down as the summer of smartphones. It’s typical pr…
Fired Motorola CFO Paul Liska Jealous Of Jha?
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Razr’s Blinding Success Hid “Brutal Reality” At Motorola
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Mobile Content Bits: MoVoxx; Imeem; NYT; Moto Gestures; NBC On Flo; Stitcher; GyPSii; Hyatt
— MoVoxx Payments: SMS advertising company MoVoxx has signed a deal with Billing Revolution to insert a payment mechnism into its ads. Mobi…
Could Android Save Motorola?
Motorola -– not HTC — is being tapped by carrier T-Mobile to produce an updated version of the G1, according to the…
Motorola Shareholders Angered At Lack Of Progress, Executive Pay Packages
At Motorola’s annual meeting Monday night, shareholders expressed anger over the company’s slow turnaround, and said they were bothered by t…
Analysts Rethink Wisdom Of A Motorola Spinoff
Will a spin-off really help the beleaguered cellphone maker Motorola? In its earnings call last week, Co-CEO
Earnings: Motorola Posts $291 Million Loss As Cellphone Sales Slump 45 Percent
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) reported first quarter earnings today, posting a $291 million loss, or $0.13 a share, while sales at its struggling ce…
Android Bits: Motorola’s First Handset Coming To Verizon?; Vodafone Planning A Number Of Launches
Two reports came out today showing that Google’s Android may be picking up steam, including what may be the first look at Motorola’s initial…
Motorola Gains On Reports That Its Mobile-Device Sale Is Back On
Oppenheimer’s Ittai Kidron speculated on Friday that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) was actively looking to sell its struggling mobile devices unit –…
Motorola Accuses Ex-CFO Liska Of Destroying Evidence
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has launched another salvo in the increasingly bitter exchange between the beleaguered handset manufacturer and its ex…
Severance Will Cost Motorola $229 Million In Q1 Charges
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) said today that it will take an additional pre-tax charge of about $110 million, relating to severance costs associated…
Motorola Unveils Its iPhone Look-Alike — Finally
Two years after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the first iPhone, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is finally getting around to releasing a competitive offe…
Has Motorola Fallen Far Enough To Interest Private Equity?
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has made some deep and difficult cuts; it’s stock price is close to a 52-week low; and it even gave up trying to sell o…
FLO Forum Promoting Free Component To Mobile TV
Mobile TV needs a free component to succeed, and FLO will be a part of that, according to Kamil Grajski, president of the FLO Forum, a not-f…
26 Carriers Commit To Deploying LTE; Some Backers Look For Way To Make Voice Calls
The number of operators that plan to roll out 4G networks using LTE has grown to 26, according to research conducted by GSA, the Global mobi…
Motorola Going Niche To Right Self-Inflicted Woes
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Mobile Content Bits: Guardian Mobile Relaunch; Bebo Open Mobile In Canada; France 24 App Climbs
— Guardian relaunches: The Guardian is overhauling its mobile site, with the update set to roll out next month. According to the newspaper,…
@ MWC: Nokia Takes A Shot At Motorola: Relying On One Product Is Like Walking On A Razor’s Edge
One of the funny comments made this morning at Nokia’s press conference at Mobile World Congress slipped by without much attention, but it s…
Motorola Slashes 1,000 Workers At China-based Research & Development Site
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has slashed 1,000 workers from its research and development team located in Beijing, China. According to the local news…
Motorola Shares Hold Firm As Co-CEOs Buy Stock
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) shares have stabilzed this week after an SEC filing indicated that the co-CEOs bought stock in the company. “Co-Chief E…
Motorola Starts LTE Demo In UK
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) launched an LTE trial network lab in Swindon, UK, with the intention of offering operators the ability to engage in LTE…
Sprint’s Credit Is Junk, Moody’s Tells Investors
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel’s credit rating has been downgraded to “junk” status by Moody’s Investors Service, less than a week after Motorola (…
Motorola Credit Rating Downgraded To Junk
Things just keep going from bad to worse for Motorola (NYSE: MOT). Once a shining example of a success story in the wireless space, the firm…
Earnings: Motorola Reports Net Loss; Handset Sales Down; Spinoff Delayed
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) reported a third quarter net loss of $397 million, or $0.18 cents a share compared with a profit of $40 million or 3 ce…
FCC White Space Proposal Faces Uphill Battle; Commissioner Opposition And Legal Maneuvers At Play
What good would an FCC auction be without legal battles and delays? The National Association of Broadcasters, T-Mobile, CTIA and others are…
Inside Motorola's Android Phone
BusinessWeek says Motorola, the beleaguered Schaumburg, Ill.-based handset maker is working on an Android OS-based phone — not that it should surprise…
Analyst Calls Off Motorola’s Funeral; Shares Rise
Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) shares rose today after an analyst said the company’s second-quarter report was the beginning of a steady upswing for…
U.S. Handset Sales Up 5 Percent; Motorola Maintains No. 1 Spot: Report
U.S. mobile phone shipments increased five percent in the second quarter, compared to the same period a year ago to reach 42 million units,…
Earnings: Motorola Revenues Beat Expectations; Handset Sales Maintain Market Share
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) reported second quarter earnings today that managed to beat expectations. The troubled handset maker posted a Q2 profit…
Motorola Splits Home And Networks Business Into Three: Report
Is Motorola (NYSE: MOT) gearing up for a sale? In March the company said it would hive off its troubled handset unit from the rest of its bu…
Nokia-Qualcomm Truce: Bad News For Motorola
Nokia and Qualcomm buried the hatchet this week, deciding to settle matters out of court and become friends. While the details of…
Motorola Sues Ex-Exec; Alleges Trade Secrets Given To Apple
Motorola has sued an ex-employee for allegedly breaking a non-compete agreement after he took a job at Apple as head of global iPhone sales,…
Motorola And Kodak Debut Motozine ZN5; Kodak Offers Up Mobile Imaging Technology
The Motorola (NYSE: MOT) pipeline hasn’t been exactly flowing lately, but today, the U.S. handset maker announced with its partner Kodak th…
Motorola’s Spinoff: One Unit To Be Sent To “Poorhouse”?
A very bleak look at the financials behind Motorola
Motorola Shakes Up Its Research Labs; Eliminates 120 People And Reassigns 180 More
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is cutting the size of its research division in half, by laying off about 120 people and reassigning 180 others to diff…
Videocon Emerges As Buyer For Motorola’s Handset Division; In Early Talks
Videocon said today it was in early talks to buy Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) handset division, according to the Business Standard. Videocon, a co…
Earnings: Motorola Q1 Loss Deepens; Device Sales Down 39 Percent
This is why they’re splitting off the devices business: Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced a Q1 loss of $194 million ($.09 per share) compar…
Industry Moves: Moto Restructures Device Unit; Reshuffles Execs
A flurry of changes at Motorola
Moto: 2600 Q1 Job Cuts Cost $104 Million
Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) job cuts in Q1 cost the company $104 million according to an SEC filing this evening. Technically, the 2,600 eliminat…
Next Week: CTIA: Previewing The Week Ahead In Las Vegas
It’s that time of year when CTIA Wireless, the big U.S.-based wireless show, is getting ready to kick off. I’ll be heading down on Sunday to…
As Moto Melts Down Nokia Cozies Up To Carriers To Boost US Share
This comes as no surprise: while Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is in full-blown panic mode, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), its Finnish rival sees a good opportun…
Motorola’s Mobile Devices Spin-off: The Impact On Mobile Content
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Moto Split Conference Call: Lots To Be Worked Out; Branding Issues; Capitalization
This feels like it’s going to be a long and drawn-out process. Other than the bare basics: the company is splitting and Motorola (NYSE: MOT)…
Motorola To Split In Two; Devices and Mobility Solutions To Trade Separately
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) says it has commenced a plan to split into two companies, two days after activist investor Carl Icahn chided the compan…
Updated: Motorola: Icahn Sues For Documents; Letter Calls Board A ‘Frat’; Compromise Rejected
Carl Icahn says he is filing suit against Motorola in Delaware Chancery Court to obtain internal documents, which he says will be key in his…
Motorola Invests In An Italian Portable TV Player Maker
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures, the cellphone maker’s venture arm, said today it invested an undisclosed sum in Quantum, a Milan company that…
Motorola Writes Big Check To Parting Handset Chief
What a difference a week makes. Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) CEO Greg Brown said last week he was conducting a formal executive search for the com…
Icahn Ups Stake In Motorola To 6.3 Percent; Proxy Fight Looming?
Activist investor Carl Icahn has raised his stake in handset maker Motorola (NYSE: MOT) to 6.3 percent from 5 percent, reports Reuters, citi…
Icahn Says He Spent $1.78 Billion For 5 Percent Stake In Motorola
Activist investor Carl Icahn said he has spent $1.78 billion for a 5 percent stake in Motorola (NYSE: MOT) at a time when he is trying to ge…
Icahn Announces Motorola Board Nominees; Wants To Avoid ‘Another Wasteful Struggle’
Following Motorola’s announcement Thursday that it was exploring spinning off its handset division, investor activist Carl Icahn said today…
Motorola Confirms Restructuring; May Separate Handset Business
As rumored earlier this week, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) says it is exploring “structural and strategic realignment”, which may involve the separa…
Motorola Does Not Need Another Hit Phone
I feel a little rant coming on… the New York Times is reporting on Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) fairly dismal earnings results (our coverage her…
Earnings: Motorola Handset Sales Down A Third In 2007, No Short Term Fix
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007, and the full year of 2007. For Q407, Motorola had sa…
Mobile Content Bits: ESPN MobiTV; Nokia Answers; Vivendi Games
— ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Mobile TV: ESPN has signed a deal with MobiTV for a 24/7 linear mobile channel dubbed, you guessed it, ESPN Mobile TV. T…
Updated: Motorola To Acquire Asian Digital Music Service Soundbuzz
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will acquire online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz. The details of the deal have…
Motorola Announces Standalone DVB-H Mobile TV Device
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced a standalone DVB-H mobile TV receiver, featuring a 4.3-inch QVGA screen, as well as a memory card slot th…
Moto Break Up Not So Simple
Activist investor Carl Icahn has been baying for the break up of Motorola (NYSE: MOT) for some time now, but chopping the company up may not…
Brown’s Strategy For Motorola, More Of The Same But A Little Bit Better
The Chicago Tribune has a piece on Greg Brown, the man tapped to replace Ed Zander as CEO of Motorola. It’s a bit of a beat-up being all pos…
Industry Moves: Moto CTO Joins Cisco as CTO
A day after Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced that its high profile CTO was leaving, she has joined Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) as its next CTO. Padmasr…
Motorola CTO To Leave
High-profile Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CTO Padmasree Warrior has left the company — there are individual CTOs for each of Motorola’s businesses…
Handsets Moto’s Only Disappointment: Why Zander Is Leaving
So Ed Zander is out of the top spot at Motorola (NYSE: MOT) after resisting pressure to leave for most of the past year … Surprisingly, Bl…
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Motorola CEO Zander Stepping Down At End of Year; COO Greg Brown To Replace
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CEO Ed Zander will step down from his post on January 1, 2008, although he will stay on as chairman until May. Succeedi…
Earnings: Motorola Q307 Net Earnings Of $60 Million As It Struggles To Get Back On Track
After some major cost cuts and the introduction of new selection of phones to follow up on the RAZR success, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today repo…
Mobile Banking Provider mFoundry Raises $15 Million Third Round; Motorola, PayPal Invest
mFoundry, a San Francisco-based provider of mobile banking solutions, has raised a $15 million third round from Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Venture…
IPhone: The Impact On Developers And Competitors
Another bit of news has come out on the subject of developers creating applications for the iPhone. BusinessWeek is reporting that “sources…
Motorola's CMO On New Brands, Content And Advertising On Mobile
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 n…
Zander Derides Navteq Buy
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CEO Ed Zander has called the $8.1 billion paid by Nokia for Navteq “stunning”, and that Motorola had decided against bu…
Motorola Plans Music Service For India; Avoids US Market
That Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is focusing on music to sell its handsets in India is pretty obvious from it’s promotional campaigns with Bollywoo…
Motorola Plans Music Service For India
That Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is focusing on music to sell its handsets in India is pretty obvious from it’s promotional campaigns with Bollywoo…
Motorola Launches Content Portal
Motorola has launched a consumer-facing site in public beta to showcase the content available on its handsets, which seems to be simply chas…
Motorola To Cut R&D Budget
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 retur…
Motorola Launches Mobile Linux Platform, Motomagx
Motorola has released a new mobile Linux platform, dubbed Motomagx. The handset manufacturer plans to get 60 percent of its handset portfoli…
Earnings: Handset Manufacturers Q2 Earnings; Motorola Down, LG Up, Sony Ericsson Up
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…
The Buck Keeps On Leaving Zander
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…
Motorola: Q2 Revenue Results Will Be Lower Than Expected
Motorola’s mobile handset business continues to plummet, with the #2 mobile phone maker warning that its second quarter results to be posted…
Motorola To Buy Leapstone To Support Quad-Play Content
Motorola has announced it will buy Somerset, New Jersey-based Leapstone Systems in the third quarter this year — the financial terms were n…
Moto Faces Another Shareholder Campaign; Smaller Than Icahn But Loud
Fresh off his contribution to Terry Semel’s departure as Yahoo CEO and armed with 130 shares in Motorola, Erik Jackson started a campaign Mo…
ShoZu Signs Preload Deal With Motorola
ShoZu has signed a deal with Motorola which will see the photo-uploading applicatoin preloaded onto mobile phones. Initially the ShoZu appli…
Motorola Expands Asian Music Portal
Motorola has upgraded its Chinese online entertainment portal MotoMusic so it now includes play list creation, management, and sharing, budd…
Motorola’s Changing Marketing Strategy, Job Cuts
Motorola is changing its marketing practices for its next set of handsets, according to this Ad Age interview with Casey Keller, chief marke…
Motorola’s New Phones — Zander’s Swan Song?; Napter & Movies
Motorola has showcased the phones it hopes will turn around its ailing fortunes. As was predicted by some people, the “Media Monster” foreca…
Motorola Gets Patent For Smellophone
Motorola has received a patent for a plug-in mobile attachment intended to allow people to have a pleasant scent near their handsets. The de…
Qualcomm Claims Patents For All NextG Tech
Qualcomm claims “more than 1,000 essential patents for OFDM, OFDMA (OFDM Access), and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technologies”, e…
Motorola Plans Movie, Enterprise Handsets To Recover Fortunes
At the Software 2007 conference Motorola CEO Ed Zander has foreshadowed the handsets the manufacturer will announce next week, which will be…
Icahn Has Probably Failed In Motorola Board Bid
Activist investor has probably failed in his bid to get onto the Motorola board, but it’s very close so the actual result may not be known f…
Pre-Motorola Showdown Reporting
Bloomberg has a comprehensive piece on Motorola shareholder attitudes on the day of the showdown between Carl Icahn and Ed Zander, which wil…
Motorola Proxy Fight Gets Ugly
The upcoming proxy battle for investor Carl Icahn getting a seat on Motorola’s board has heated up, which was inevitable. Motorola CEO Ed Za…
Icahn Advertises In WSJ For Backing For Board Bid
Activist investor Carl C. Icahn has stepped up his campaign to get a seat on the board of Motorola, taking out a full-page ad in the Wall St…
Icahn Gains Support In Bid For Motorola Board
Carl Icahn is gaining some support from institutional shareholders that could see him land a seat on Motorola’s board at the company’s annua…
Motorola To Buy Video Company Terayon
Motorola has said it will buy Terayon Communication Systems for about $140 million, paying about $1.80 a share. in a bid to boost its video…
Earnings: Motorola Handset Sales Down 15 Percent Year-On-Year
UPDATE: Motorola has released its first quarter earnings, and as expected they’re not too good… The company earned $5.412 billion from han…
China Mobile’s Express News Content Service Gets Motorola Support
China Mobile has announced that Motorola is the first handset maker to support the mobile operator’s Express News mobile information service…
Motorola Invests In Mobile Video Production and Distribution Firm GoTV
Motorla’s VC arm Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in Sherman Oaks, CA-based GoTV Networks; the terms of the deal were undiscl…
Motorola Needs a Quick Fix and a Long-Term Plan
Motorola needs both a short-term fix and a long-term strategy to revive its fortunes, writes the New York Times. After revising its first qu…
Motorola Slashes Outlook, Shuffles Executive Ranks
Motorola has revised its first-quarter sales expectations down to between $9.2 and $9.3 billion, from a previous forcast of between $10.4 an…
Palm On The Auction Block
Rumors have been flying this week that Palm is on the auction block — apparently started by a story in Unstrung.com. It quoted “sources clo…
Icahn Set To Buy More Motorola Shares
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, already a leading shareholder in Motorola, and several of his funds have filed to buy more than $2 billion,…
Motorola Puts iRadio On Hold
The launch of Motorola’s iRadio mobile music solution, which has been in beta for more than a year, has been delayed while the concept under…
Motorola Tries To Dampen Expectations
Motorola’s CFO David Devonshire is trying to lower expectations about the companies performance in the next few quarters, according to RCR W…
Malaysian Newspaper Gets Mobile & Personal With Motorola
Malaysia’s newspaper, The Star Publications Bhd, has partnered with Motorola to offer users access to news and updates from The Star Online.…
Content Interoperability Software DARTdevices Gets $2.8 First Round Funding
Motorola has made a $2.8 million first round investment in DARTdevices. The company, based in Mountain View, CA, has software that lets mul…
Earnings: Motorola 4Q Profit Declines As Mobile Division Falters
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) warned investors two weeks ago earnings might look ugly. Pointing to a drop in sales in its mobile devices unit, Motoro…
@ CES: Keynote Of Ed Zander, Motorola CEO — Yahoo And Music; WMG Deal
The keynote of Motorola CEO Ed Zander was mostly a sales pitch, but that’s to be expected and it’s mostly to find out what one of the bigges…
Should Handset Vendors Stockpile Content And Services?
The International Herald Tribune has a thought-provoking piece recounting Nokia
Motorola Reports Disappointing Q3 Sales
“Motorola reported sales, on a continuing operations basis, of US$10.6 billion in the third quarter of 2006, lower than expected by city ana…
Motorola iRadio Debuts Public Radio Content
Motorola has added some public radio programs to its iRadio service, with content from NPR (which is also on MobiTV), American Public Media…
Motorola Linux Platform Video Tour
“About a year and half ago, Motorola announced a new operating system for their phones. Yet every time since then that they’ve announced a n…
Motorola To Buy Symbol
Motorola has said it will buy Symbol Technologies for about $3.9 billion. Symbol (based in Holtsville) makes bar code scanners, Palm OS- and…
CTIA: Motorola And Nokia To Collaborate On TV Operability For DVB-H Handsets
Motorola and Nokia have announced they will work together on mobile TV operability for their DVB-H handsets. Their pitch: interoperable DVB-…
Yahoo Go For Windows Mobile Launches Globally
In the eight months since Yahoo’s Go strategy was first announced at CES with Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Cruise as cheerleaders, the mobile ser…
Motorola Makes Music with Asia’s Leading Pop Icon Jay Chou
Motorola has signed on Jay Chou (“one of Asia’s leading music artists”) as a brand embassador. This includes Jay appearing in advertisements…
Motorola Ties Up With Soundbuzz To Promote RAZR E2 In Singapore
In a move that is reminiscent of, but not exactly like, the iTunes-Motorola tie up, Motorola has announced a music download campaign with S…
Audio Interview: Moto Hopes To Harness User-Created content To Make iRadio Sing
[by Peggy Anne Salz] This time it’s more than another iRadio sighting – we have concrete details on the content (and roll out) Moto says wi…
Motorola Launches Hypermart for Mobile Games
This was mentioned in passing last week with the news of Motorola teaming up with Chinese online gaming giant Shanda, but I think it’s worth…
Motorola Takes Linux Into The Mobile Mainstream
Motorola shipped a million Linux-based ‘Ming’ phones in China last quarter, prompting the question as to whether Linux is now ready to take…
Motorola Partners With Shanda To Launch Online Games On Cell Phones
Motorola has launched its first online-game-playing mobile phone. It has been launched in China as it’s one of the “world’s top game markets…
Moto Goes Bnkrz; Launches Krzr & Rizr
Moto’s out of cntrl…it has gone off its rkrs…completely bnkrz. Ok, you get the point…it has launched two more anemically-named phones…
Zander on Moto’s Music Phone and Razr
Motorola announced its Q2 earnings today, and in the earnings call, CEO Ed Zander waxed rhapsodic about Razr, and other music phones. SOme e…
Yahoo Go on Moto; Builds Beyond Nokia
Yahoo Go, the mobile/portable suite application of Yahoo services, which launched last year is now being distributed through both the carrie…
Licensing Red Tape Slows Mobile Music
The convoluted music licensing scheme is hampering companies which wish to offer mobile music services, according to this commentator,
Beckham’s Moto Deal; Content On Handsets
Like we need more Beckham…he’s now the new brand ambassdor for Motorola. Under terms of the deal, Motorola will launch a three-year advert…
Motorola Mobilizes MySpace
Motorola has begun promoting its new phone, MotoQ, on MySpace, opening a profile called “My Very Thin Space”. “The profile, created by Carat…
Motorola Acquires UK Software Vendor TTPCom For $192M
Motorola has bought UK-based TTP Communications for $192 million. TTP has substantial stakes in a handset certification business, sells soft…
Mobiles Now The Target For Developers
The mobile phone is going to be the main market for the “highest of high volume applications”, according to Rob Shaddock, corporate vice pre…
Moto’s War Againt Vowels: From Razr To Scpl
Mainly “e”: Apparently Motorola’s next batch of ultra-slim phones will have the moniker Scpl…
Phone Tattoos From Moto And Cingular
Ridiculous, but could work, and have been around in some shape or form from other companies as well: Motorola has launched “Phone Tattoos” f…
Moto’s Multimedia Phone Q To Launch Next Week; Zander’s Vision
Updated below:Motorola’s Q, a multimedia phone that’s something of a cross between a BlackBerry and a video iPod, will hopefully come out ne…
