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On BBC News Homepage this morning.
Motorola considers splitting up.
Motorola is considering breaking up its business as it battles to recover from last year's losses and weak sales.
One option under review is to split off the mobile phone business which has been losing market share to rivals.
Overall Motorola lost $49m (£24m) in 2007, but the phone unit lost $1.2bn and sales plummeted 33%.
The company has two other businesses, one sells television set-top boxes and the other sells equipment for wireless computer networks.
New chief executive
"We are exploring ways in which our mobile devices business can accelerate its recovery and retain and attract talent while enabling our shareholders to realize the value of this great franchise," said Greg Brown, the company's chief executive.
He took over from Ed Zander who stood down on 1 January this year.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has long been urging Motorola's management to split the mobile phone unit from the rest of the business.
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Posted: 2008-02-01 09:02:15
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Its quite amazing that this is how things stood in 2006.
GLOBAL MOBILE PHONE SHARE 2006
Nokia: 33.3%
Motorola: 22.1%
Samsung: 11.2%
Sony Ericsson: 6.7%
LG: 6.5%
Others: 20.3%
Source: Strategy Analytics
Analyst were saying 'that if the two market leaders maintained their current growth rate, Motorola could "potentially" overtake its Finnish rival during 2007.'
What went wrong?
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Posted: 2008-02-01 09:12:44
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On 2008-01-31 20:44:11, HOBBS wrote:
Just curious.what is everyones pc monitor screen resolution set to?
1024 X 768 on my lappy
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Posted: 2008-02-01 10:32:51
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On 2008-01-31 16:59:45, HOBBS wrote:
Cool Branimir.South Africa eagerly awaits your arrival.The red carpet has been laid out and your limousine is waiting in the wings.Are you coming to Cape Town?
no carpet, no limousine
just rental car, probably Tiida is waiting for me in Richards bay. Now I'm in Joburg, waiting 6 hours for flight to RB
Hmmm, I wasnt able to go to SA business lounge, I need a gold card, they said... In europe is silver lufthansa card enough
well the weather is fine at least
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Posted: 2008-02-01 11:17:16
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Hello all. Hope everyone is well. Has anyone had a chance to play with the SE K850 yet?
Sorry I haven't been around much but work is just keeping me bogged down. Oh and happy new year
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Posted: 2008-02-01 12:47:04
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@HOBBS: What basically happened to Motorola was V3-induced fatigue. Like countless other posters on a million forums and blogs Motorola didn't have a decent follow-up to the RAZR, no-one could keep up with all the knock-offs that came from the RAZR and their UI was the worst amongst all vendors.
@Branimir: Welcome to SA. What will you be doing in Richards Bay?
@Siosal: Welcome back bro...everyone seems to have forgotten about you when they mentioned the 2 F's!
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Posted: 2008-02-01 15:34:00
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sorry branimir.your royal red velvet carpet was stolen outside the airport by homeless vagabonds who then hijacked the 10m stretch limousine and sped off.WELCOME TO SA bud.
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Posted: 2008-02-01 16:51:47
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On 2008-01-31 19:22:57, HOBBS wrote:
Hey Brix.Don't you find it strange that these festive colour lights on the poles down Main Road Sea Point are still on considering the power problems we experiencing.They were switched on about an hour and a half before it was even dark.Bizarre.
Last night I popped into the 7-11 on the corner of Main & Glengariff and actually saw council workers switching them off. Last night we were having a debate on when Christmas lights are supposed to be taken off...they're way past their due date.
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Posted: 2008-02-01 16:57:00
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Woohoo!!! I got my phone back at last, now i can post freely again!
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Posted: 2008-02-01 18:18:57
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Ive just updated my Blog!!
@ JC08
Thats great news man!
so how is it? have they done a good job with the joystick?
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Posted: 2008-02-01 18:20:42
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