Analysis: Reality check for Motorola Nov 5, 2009
In the earlier part of this decade, Motorola came out with phones like the Razor and before that the StarTac in 1996 which had runaway success and propelled the company to a 22 percent market share by 2006, raising sales in the mobile division to a record $28. 4 billion with shipment of 217 million handsets. (EETimes)
* Motorola takes on challenge to recapture market Nov 1, 2009
Motorola, which pioneered cellphones and built such consumer favorites as the StarTac and the Razr, had not had a hit phone in years, and a succession of leaders could not find one. Jha, 46, an engineer who worked his way up at Qualcomm from a chip designer to the No. 3 executive, answered the challenge, saying employees should not take him on faith but watch what he did. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Recommended Reading Jul 17, 2009
First on the list is Motorolas StarTAC cell phone, circa 1996. The world's first flip phone is also the first gadget based on technology originally imagined in Star Trek: the handheld communicator, Tynan wrote. (FCW.com)
Analysis: Apple must heed the Motorola lesson Jul 15, 2009
Just ask Motorola, whose Startac and Razor phones blew away the competition and helped it come ever so close to displacing Nokia as the world's largest supplier of mobile handsets. Today, Motorola is a shadow of its once glowing self, its sinking market share and pallid market capitalization $13. (EETimes)
Steve AschburnerINSIDE THE NBA Mar 27, 2009
flipping open his Motorola StarTAC "clamshell" to the oohs and aahs of teammates. Purvis Short needing a holster to tote around an earlier cell phone, the famous two-pound "brick". (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
