That marked a startling 500-fold improvement in capacity from a crude prototype Motorola had last year.
As of the end of 2012, Google said Motorola had 11, 113 employees, which didn't include the Motorola Home business, which makes television set-top boxes and was sold to Arris Group Inc.
Sure, rumors swarm around Apple announcements like flies at a picnic, but the notion of an iTunes phone created in (loose) partnership with Motorola had publicly been discussed by executives of both companies.
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Microsoft's lawsuit states that Google had requested an excessive amount of money for its Frand-type patents - rights that were supposed to be offered on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms since Motorola had acknowledged their critical status.
Motorola had said its dearest RAZR HD LTE would be coming "later this fall" as an exclusive to Rogers, and today's the day that relatively thin and powerful Android handset hits shelves across the border.
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Motorola had plans for pocket-size, third-generation phones.
Jha also made it clear publicly last week that Motorola was considering developing on the Windows 7 Phone OS. We now know that Motorola had been in discussions with Microsoft (MSFT) and Google for the last several weeks.
The micro-USB port, also found along the left edge, is uncovered, but Motorola had the foresight to bathe both the surface and internal circuitry in a water-resistant coating, which should stand up to the wet weather conditions many Europeans will face heading into winter.
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At the time cellular calls flitted from tower to tower under an electronic protocol later known as GSM (global system for mobile), a group effort whose three progenitors--Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola--had pooled their patents and didn't charge one another any royalties.
But a US court had ordered Motorola to hold off from enforcing the ruling until it ruled on a related complaint.
Google had previously acquired a slew of patents when it bought Motorola Mobility, a company that had been filing lawsuits against competitors using these standards.
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Although traditional cell phone manufacturers, such as Motorola and Samsung, had smartphone technology many years prior to Apple, they were so focused on their traditional markets they failed to look into the future.
There is no way that a 37 year old Harvard grad would be on the Motorola board unless Icahn had fought a proxy contest to get him on (along with Bill Hambrecht in a 2008 agreement).
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"I don't want people to look at Motorola Solutions and say they had a great start, " says Brown.
Previously, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson had been the leaders.
Within four years, Motorola's market share had slumped to 17%.
Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications, a cable company.
Prior to implementation of the Motorola system in 2002 we had serious interoperability issues between federal, state and local police, fire, rescue, emergency medical, utilities, transportation, schools and other related services.
The ITC said it chose to end its investigation related to Motorola and Apple because Apple had successfully argued that Google's patent was invalid because it wasn't different enough from previous inventions.
Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company.
By comparison, Google, before their deal to buy Motorola Mobility (MMI), had 925 granted patents.
StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications, a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
He'd had luck turning around botched Motorola projects like Nextel.
Before my serendipitous encounter, I had my eye on the Motorola 89442N Universal External Cell Phone Battery, a pack about the size of a phone with a bantam micro-USB arm.
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The day before Breen left its chief operating officer's post, after only six months there, Motorola Chief Executive Christopher Galvin says Breen had assured him that there were no hidden problems about to burst forth.
StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
First, two lower courts had already ruled in favor of Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta.
All of that convinced us that Nokia had a fighting chance to unseat Motorola as the world's biggest cell phone maker.
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