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Motorola Buys Symbol Technologies For £2bn
News Symbol Technologies, a company that specialises in barcode scanners, wireless and radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment, has been bought by Motorola. This transaction significantly advances Motorola's enterprise mobility strategy and is...
[September 19, 2006, 16:30]
Motorola Debuts New PowerPC Chip
News Motorola announced a new, lower-power version of its top-rated PowerPC chip on Monday. The new chip, dubbed PowerPC 7440, was announced along with a flurry of other new networking-oriented chips at the Motorola semiconductor product sector's Smart...
[May 22, 2001, 12:12]
Motorola Fights On In Ultrawideband Battle
News The fight over the ultrawideband (UWB) wireless data standard has been going on for nearly a year, between the group headed by Intel and Texas Instruments - the Multiband OFDM Alliance, or MBOA -- and that by Motorola, which favours Direct...
[March 5, 2004, 9:10]
CeBIT 2002: Motorola Strives For Maximum Desirability
News Motorola, which has suffered badly from the turmoil that has raged through the mobile sector in the last year, said at CeBIT that its new range of phones will allow its business to grow in 2002. We want consumers to see a Motorola phone, say 'wow...
[March 14, 2002, 16:05]
Nuggets: Motorola Mobile Good But Not Best
News Motorola, a fine brand of gadgets for sure, seems to have gotten a tad confused with the V.2288 which, by the company's own admission, is a "fun phone". Get your hands on a Motorola V.2288 now for £100.
[July 11, 2000, 14:49]
Motorola And Sony Play Ball
News Motorola's Dragonball processors will soon support Sony's Memory Stick, potentially expanding the market for the removable storage shaped like a stick of gum. Motorola's announcement on Wednesday expands the number of manufacturers that may choose...
[May 24, 2001, 11:00]
Motorola Phones To Play ITunes
News Apple Computer and Motorola announced a deal on Monday that will let customers of the iTunes digital music transfer their music onto the mobile handset maker's next generation of MP3-enabled phones. Under the agreement, Apple will create a new...
[July 27, 2004, 8:45]
Motorola Hits 3Q Targets
News Motorola met analysts' estimates in its third quarter Tuesday, earning $598m, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $9.5bn. Motorola shares closed off 38 cents to $26.63 ahead of the earnings report. In the quarter, Motorola reported special items...
[October 11, 2000, 9:35]
News Burst: Motorola Warns On Mobile Sale And Shares Plummet
News Mobile phone sales will slow down according to the world's second largest mobile manufacturer Motorola which saw its shares drop 15 percent following the announcement. Motorola warned Wednesday that a decline in demand, especially in Europe, will...
[October 12, 2000, 9:35]
Motorola Takes Order For 500,000 GPRS Timeports
News Motorola is about to announce a 500,000 unit order of its GPRS-based Timeport 260 mobile phone, most likely to a European telco. Mike Zafirovski, Executive Vice-President of Personal Communications at Motorola made the announcement at a press...
[March 22, 2001, 13:31]
Motorola GPRS Phones Have Licensed Games Onboard
News Suggestions that the future of GPRS was bleak were denied by American mobile manufacturer Motorola, as it announced details of four new GPRS-enabled products. Motorola was the first of the big mobile phone makers to bring a GPRS (General Packet...
[March 23, 2001, 11:43]
News Burst: Motorola Backtracks On GPRS Health Concerns
News Mobile manufacturer Motorola is backtracking on recent comments by its spokesman suggesting that GPRS, the high-speed successor to GSM, might have to be made slower in order to stay within radiation absorption guidelines.
[October 27, 2000, 9:00]
Motorola Denies Mobile Phone Cancer Shield Claims
News Motorola has denied claims that it has been working on secret devices to combat health concerns over mobile phone use. A report in The Times on Monday claimed that Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson had each registered a number of patents for "radiation...
[June 14, 2001, 8:39]
Motorola Licenses Opera Browser
News Opera Software has closed its second licensing deal with electronics-manufacturer Motorola in as many weeks, with Motorola's mobile-phone division acquiring the rights to build Opera products into various handsets.
[February 11, 2004, 10:30]
Motorola Chip Gets Networks Talking
News Motorola introduced a more talkative chip on Monday. The new chip is based on Motorola's PowerPC MPC8560 -- the latest version of its e500 processor, which is also known as the G5. Motorola said that a performance boost in the 8560 processor core...
[July 23, 2002, 6:27]
CES: Motorola Cranks Out New Power Play
News Cell phone maker Motorola, searching for high-tech ways to extend battery life, will soon offer a method that smacks of kids' toys and Model T cars: wind-up. As previously reported, Freecharge, the new power source for wireless phones created by...
[January 8, 2002, 14:13]
Motorola Backtracks On GPRS Safety Concerns
News Mobile manufacturer Motorola is backtracking on recent comments by its spokesman suggesting that GPRS, the high-speed successor to GSM, might have to be made slower in order to stay within radiation absorption guidelines.
[October 27, 2000, 11:13]
News Burst: Motorola Stock Nears 52-week High
News Motorola Inc.shares shot up 2 3/8, or 4 percent, to 63 Monday after NationsBanc Montgomery Securities analyst Mark McKechnie upgraded the chip and telecommunications manufacturer from a "hold" to a "buy" recommendation.
[December 1, 1998, 6:01]
Motorola Wants Credit For First SMS Dictionary
News Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola claimed Wednesday that it, not Genie, released the world's first SMS dictionary. According to Amanda Fisher, the company's UK marketing manager for personal communications, Motorola's guide to SMS -- titled the...
[November 23, 2000, 14:44]
Motorola Shows Its Wireless Game Strategy
News Phone manufacturer Motorola wowed gamers by demonstrating games on the first of its GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) enabled mobile devices. Motorola will announce a range of new games for WAP mobile devices later this year, intended to migrate...
[September 5, 2000, 12:27]
