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Motorola Offers Exchange Program For Wi-Fi Mesh Gear

Eliza Villarino — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:11:00 +0000

For 11 weeks through June 15, Motorola is running a program that will enable early-adopter cities to receive credits for exchanging their wireless gear for Motorola’s “HotZone Duo” products. Under the Superior Wireless Access Program, Motorola will pay $500 for each old unit exchanged with a single-radio HotZone Duo node and $750 for those wanting dual-radio HotZone Duo as a replacement for their gadgets. Customers can swap as many as 10 units.

Motorola launched the initiative following an Uptown Services study showing that actual performance by mesh networks in three Californian municipalities — Lompoc, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale — failed to reach the industry benchmark of 90 percent outdoor coverage. According to Paul Mueller, Motorola’s VP for wireless broadband distribution, “many of the early customers in the mesh network space have run pilots with older, first-generation mesh solutions that simply cannot perform or scale to meet the expanding needs of a metro-wide network.”
Via [informationweek.com]

Motorola Snags Developer Of Wireless HD

Eliza Villarino — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:26:00 +0000

Motorola is one of the latest companies to enter the home entertainment market. Its venture capital unit, Motorola Ventures, has made an unspecified investment in wireless technology company Amimon. The U.S.-Israeli firm is known for developing a wireless high-definition interface that can be integrated in semiconductor chips to allow for wireless transfer of uncompressed high-definition TV. Because it works with high-speed interfaces like HDMI and VGA graphics display systems, the technology enables wireless flat-panel TVs, PCs and other components to render image and sound quality similar to hardwired variants.
Via [zdnetasia.com]

Motorola Buys Wireless Firm Good

Eliza Villarino — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:22:00 +0000

Motorola has acquired Good Technology, which provides wireless email services for handsets, including Motorola’s Q. Motorola Mobile Devices division president Ron Garriques said “Good Technology’s software and managed service deliver a rich user experience, low cost of ownership, industry- leading security and enterprise-class support.” Garriques believes the deal will “continue to strengthen Motorola as a leading provider of mobility devices and solutions both for enterprise customers and consumers.” The company, however, was mum on how it plans to incorporate Good’s products in its own portfolio. The deal, whose financial terms remain undisclosed, will become final early next year.
Via [betanews.com]

Motorola: Metro Wi-Fi’ll Never Happen

Eliza Villarino — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:09:00 +0000

Juan Santiago, senior director of product management at Motorola, believes Metro WiFi is a futile attempt to bring WiFi outdoors. Such is the case because Metro WiFi in unlicensed, free and, various devices create too much interference to allow it to work properly. Such venture will also fail because operating an outdoor WiFi is too costly.
Via [weblog.infoworld.com]

Motorola Could Drive Growth With WiMax

Eliza Villarino — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:42:00 +0000

The WiMax deal with Sprint Nextel could bring $210 million for Motorola in 2007 and $307 million the following year, according to Bear Stearns analyst Philip Cusick. Sprint recently announced the selection of of Motorola, along with Samsung, as the principal vendors for the new high-speed network that it plans to build. Cusick said: “While fairly small compared to Motorola’s Networks and Enterprise category, this and other WiMax revenue could be important in driving growth in the category for the next two years.” Cusick expects further revenues for Motorola from other companies because of this development. “Given the importance of the Sprint contract to the WiMax ecosystem, Motorola, Intel and Samsung may be looking at very tight margins on this contract. We believe that ClearWire, the Canadian joint venture and Sprint together could generate over $500 million in annual revenue for Motorola,” Cusick continued.
Via [forbes.com]

Softbank, Motorola Launch 2.5 GHz WiMax Trial In Japan

Eliza Villarino — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:41:00 +0000

Motorola and Softbank Group are teaming up to install a WiMax trial network in Tokyo. Under the agreement, Motorola will supply the necessary equipment such as access points, an access network, and prototype WiMax mobile handheld devices while Softbank — a provider of mobile communications, fixed-line telecommunications and fixed-line broadband services to 26 million subscribers in Japan — will evaluate the efficacy of WiMax as a wireless broadband techology. The trial will run for five months beginning September.
Via [informationweek.com]

4.9 And Wi-Fi In One Card

RenderMan — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:27:00 +0000

Motorola is releasing a new wireless card, but not one meant for ordinary consumers. The Card operates as a normal 2.4 Ghz 802.11b/g card but also operates on the licensed 4.9Ghz public safety spectrum. This combo card allows for alot of flexibility for emergency personnel and first responders to setup networks without having to compete for spectrum with regular WiFi users. The rugged card also sports a higher output than most consumer cards and an external antenna connector.
Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Cisco, Motorola Abandon Wi-Fi/Cellular Venture

Sherry Jones — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:34:00 +0000

This year’s plan for a “seamless” cellular/WiFi roaming technology partnership between Cisco Systems Inc. and Motorola turned out to be not so seamless, so a new generation of fixed/mobile convergence devices won’t be coming your way until at least 2007. The devices are predicted to allow handsets to roam seamlessly between WiFi and cellular networks without a loss of service or data.
Via [informationweek.com]

Motorola Snaps Up UK Wireless Firm

RenderMan — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:42:00 +0000

Motorola bought up Orthogon systems today for an unknown sum. The company builds enterprise networking gear utilizing a composite of radio bands giving them a high noise resistance and the ability to punch through obstacles. Orthogon has many deployments around the world including mesh and WiMax.
Via [vnunet.com]

Motorola Incorporates Mesh Spec

RenderMan — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:35:00 +0000

The 802.11s task force has gotten down to work. The task force is trying to come up with a mesh networking spec to finally define how to do it. Motorola has already taken the preliminary draft and stated that their software already supports it. As with most standards task forces, this one looks to have some battles brewing between proprietary technologies that want their standard to be the one accepted. In the end they will likely come up with something, but it should be an interesting battle.
Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

EarthLink, Motorola Sign Wi-Fi Contract

Wayne Slavin — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:23:00 +0000

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. said Thursday it signed a contract with Motorola Inc. under which the cell phone maker would provide wireless equipment and related services for the initial five cities where EarthLink will set-up municipal wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, broadband Internet access networks.
Via [businessweek.com]

Motorola Works Around WLAN Roaming To Enable Wi-Fi Telephony

Wayne Slavin — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:00 +0000

Motorola on Tuesday leveraged the intense spotlight of the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show to introduce a new Motorola Residential Seamless Mobility Gateway (RSG) that takes WiFi-to-cellular handover control out of the hands of the carrier and puts it squarely in the hands of the consumer.
Via [news.tmcnet.com]

Snowboarders Stay Connected With Wireless Winter Wear

Wayne Slavin — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:25:00 +0000

Embarking on a long term wireless integration collaboration, Burton Snowboards and Motorola Inc. recently revealed plans to launch a collection of Bluetooth-enabled winter gear for snowboarding tech types that want to stay connected.
Via [pcmag.com]

Motorola, Intel Team On Mobile WiMax

Wayne Slavin — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:16:00 +0000

Motorola and Intel are teaming up to accelerate the development and adoption of a broadband technology called WiMax for mobile devices, the companies announced Thursday.
Via [news.zdnet.com]

Motorola, Nortel invest In Wi-Fi Start-up

Wayne Slavin — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:40:00 +0000

Motorola and Nortel Networks have each taken a stake in Wi-Fi start-up Trapeze Networks, the company said on Tuesday.
Via [news.zdnet.com]