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Motorola Solutions, Inc.

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Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) is a data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola Inc. following the spin-off of the mobile phones division into Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. in 2011. The company is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

Motorola Solutions is composed of the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division of the former Motorola, Inc. Motorola Solutions also previously had a Networks division, which it sold to Nokia Siemens Networks in a transaction that was completed on April 29, 2011. It was the second largest division (based on revenue) in the former Motorola.

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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Christina Trampota as Senior Manager. (1/1/09)
  Posted 8/22/11 at 6:43pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Todd Ebert as Director Product Marketing.
  Posted 7/8/11 at 6:22pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Jeff Kibler as Senior Software Engineer. (5/1/03)
  Posted 11/22/10 at 1:15pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Jackie Zhang as Engineer. (1/1/04)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 5:34pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Gilles Drieu as Vice President, Software Development. (7/1/10)
  Posted 9/20/10 at 2:16pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Christy Wyatt as Corporate Vice President, Software Platforms, Applications and Ecosystem.
  Posted 9/15/10 at 3:21pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Reena Nadkarni as Director, Product Management.
  Posted 9/7/10 at 11:57am
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Stewart Dixon as Director of Internet Strategy. (3/1/99)
  Posted 2/28/10 at 4:57am
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Danny Shader as Corporate VP. (1/1/07)
  Posted 2/3/10 at 5:17pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Dale Fuller as GM/VP NEC Portable Computer Division.
  Posted 11/24/09 at 6:20am
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Ian Greenblatt as Deputy Director, Next Generation Television.
  Posted 5/8/09 at 12:52pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Morris Moore as VP Security Technology.
  Posted 7/7/08 at 4:58pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Fred Kitson as VP Applications Research.
  Posted 7/7/08 at 4:58pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Vida Ilderem as VP Physical and Digital Realization Research.
  Posted 7/7/08 at 4:58pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Mike Pellon as VP Standards.
  Posted 7/7/08 at 4:58pm
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  Motorola Solutions, Inc. added Hamid Amadhi as CTO.
  Posted 7/7/08 at 4:58pm

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Droid

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Website	droiddoes.com
Tags	android, verizon, motorola, smartphone

The Motorola Droid is an Android-based smartphone by Motorola to be initially distributed by Verizon Wireless in the United States. Features of the phone include Wi-Fi networking, a 5-megapixel low light capable digital camera, a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, interchangable battery, 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen, MicroSDHC support with bundled 16GB card, turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation, and a QWERTY keyboard. Its processor is a Texas Instruments OMAP 3430, which is used by the Palm Pre and Nokia N900 as well. It has a hearing aid compatibility (hac) rating of M3/T3.

The Motorola Droid runs version 2.0, codenamed Eclair, of Google’s Android operating system. The phone does not, however, run the re-branded MOTOBLUR version of Android, instead providing the Google Experience skin and application stack. The stock Android operating system restricts applications from being installed outside of onboard memory, in this case limiting application and OS size to a total maximum size of 512MB.

The November 6, 2009 release date of the Droid comes just under a month after Verizon and Google announced that they had entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on the Android mobile platform. Verizon said at the time that it planned to have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come in 2010. The other handset is to be the HTC Eris, a modification to the HTC Hero, seen in shots of Google CEO Eric Schmidt holding one in a Verizon/Google press conference.

The Droid had been publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855. The GSM/UMTS version is named Motorola Milestone.

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1. Motorola Buys Connected Home And Energy Management Software Developer 4Home (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Motorola Acquires Location-Based Mobile Software Startup Aloqa (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
4. Motorola to Enhance On Demand Portfolio with Strategic Acquisition (bitband.com) [edit]
5. Motorola's AirDefense Acquisition Complete (wi-fiplanet.com) [edit]
6. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. Motorola to Acquire Broadbus Technologies, Extend Portfolio of ‘Seamless Video Anywhere’ Solutions (motorola.com) [edit]
8. Motorola completes acquisition of General Instrument (news.cnet.com) [edit]
9. Beceem Closes $20 Million in Financing and Accelerates WiMAX Product Developments (beceem.com) [edit]
10. Capital Report Index [edit]
11. Mobile Firm Amobee Raises $22 Million For Ad-Supported Cellphone Service (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
12. VivoTech, the mobile payment company, raises money from Motorola (venturebeat.com) [edit]
13. Siimpel raises $21.5M for imaging technology for cellphones (venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. mitsloanblog.typepad.com [edit]
15. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
16. Motorola backs Vocera, maker of wearable badge for wireless communication (venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. Venturebeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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19. OQO gets $20m more in funding (ft.com) [edit]
20. E INK CORPORATION ANNOUNCES $15.8 MILLION VENTURE INVESTMENT (e-ink.com) [edit]