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It seems that Motorola is working on an Android phone... check this job post on LinkedIn

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According to Avian Securities, Motorola will end this second quarter with 8.5% share, a reduce from 9.3% on Q1. Same Avian Securities released on June that no motorola device is between the top best-selling handsets on the USA.
Same analysts are expecting Motorola to end up with 6% share by the end of the year... that's a shame for a company that once had 20% share

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The sales of Motorola's handset division has fall 39% (to $3.3 billion) comparing to same period last year. The unit had an operating loss of $418 million, compared to a loss of $233 billion a year ago.

The whole company had a loss of $194 million ($.09 per share) compared to a loss of $181 million ($.09 per share) in the year-ago period. The others company, such as networking equipment and enterprise mobility units performed better, but not that good.

Looking at different units, we can see why they decided to cut mobile division off.

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BusinessWeek published today a great article about Mobile Virtualization

Yesterday, we heard that Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment on VirtualLogix. Before that, VirtualLogix has raised $28 million in two rounds of funding from Atlas Venture, Cisco Systems, DFJ Esprit, Index Ventures, Intel Capital and Texas Instruments.

I don't believe companies that have stables operational system, such as Nokia or Sony Ericsson, will invest in this kind of technology in short period of time. But this could be a great solution for the OS-madness on Motorola and others mobile companies (Samsung is already testing VirtualLogix technology).

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Videocon Chairman Venugopal Dhoot has been quoted by Mint expressing an interest in acquiring the mobile handset business seeing a fit with their pan-India 22 circle license acquisition for GSM mobile services under the brand Datacom. The valuation of Motorola’s handset division is worth $3.8 billion as per Merrill Lynch, more than double the market value of Videocon Industries, the group’s listed company.

Though Motorola is using its numero uno status in the States as a buyer proposition, our sister site Moconews reports that on LG, Sony Ericsson and Samsung (which recently took over Motorola for no. 2 position global handset sales) have said that they’re not interested in buying. No idea on the valuation of the bid currently, but if it does work out, it will be a massive coup for Videocon. All reports indicate the entire managerial structure within Motorola’s handset division is devoid of innovation and has decayed internally on the success of the Razr. However, resurrections are not uncommon in technology and a firm which invented the cellphone, made a decision to direct all their engineering resources and efforts on a concept the industry dubbed insane, can in the least reinvent itself.

Videocon’s recent acquisitions include PlanetM (an music retail store present 140-plus locations) from BCCL for Rs 200 crore (~US$ 50 million).

Source: ContentSutra

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ShoZu has signed a deal with Motorola which will see the photo-uploading applicatoin preloaded onto mobile phones. Initially the ShoZu application will be available for free download to the MotoRizr Z8 from http://www.hellomoto.com when the phone is launched in Europe, but later this year application will be pre-installed on some Motorola handsets around the world. The application will let users upload photos and video clips from their cameraphones to a variety of web destinations for a single data transfer fee, and they can add titles or tags after uploading and exchange comments between the web and the phone. Current destination options include online communities such as YouTube, Buzznet, Flickr, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, MSN's Windows Live Spaces, Textamerica, Webshots, Pikeo and Moblog.uk; personal blogging sites Blogger, TypePad and WordPress; citizen-contributed photojournalism sites such as CNN, the BBC and Scoopt; and any FTP or email address

source: MoCoNews

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