MOTOROLA

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MOTOROLA:
Motorola is an American, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Founded: 1928.
HeadQuarters: Schaumburg, Illinois, United States.
Key People: Greg Brown, President and Co-CEO Sanjay Jha.
Products: Microprocessor, Mobile Phones, Embedded Systems, Network Systems.
Revenue: $36.622 billion USD(2007).
Employees: 66,000.
Website: http://www.motorola.com/.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
Motorola has been at the forefront of communication inventions and innovations for nearly 80 years. Motorola achieved extraordinary accomplishments along the way, such as making the equipment that carried the first words from the moon and leading the cellular communication revolution with the development of the world’s first handheld portable cellular phone, the DynaTAC(DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage). Motorola were the first to bring Push-to-Talk over Cellular to market. More recently, Motorola delivered the first all-digital high-definition television (HDTV) technical standard and demonstrated the world’s first WiMAX 802.16e mobile handoff.

HISTORY:
Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928 with its first product being a battery eliminator. The name Motorola was adopted in 1930. Founders Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin came up with the name Motorola.
History of Motorola(year wise) as follows,

1940: Motorola made battery eliminator for radios, through the first walkie-talkie in the world.
1952: Motorola opened its first international subsidiary in Toronto, Canada to produce radios and televisions.
1955: Motorola started its research and development laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona to research new solid-state technology.
1958: Motorola provided radio equipment for most NASA space-flights for decades including during the 1969 moon landing.
1960: Motorola introduced the world's first "large-screen" (19-inch), transistorized, cordless portable television.
1974: Motorola sold its television business.
1976: Motorola moved to its present headquarters in Schaumburg.
1983: Motorola made the FCC approved the DynaTAC 8000X telephone, the world's first-only commercial cellular device.
1986: Motorola invented the Six Sigma quality improvement process. This became a global standard.
1991: Motorola demonstrated the world's first working-prototype digital cellular system and phones using GSM standard.
2000: Motorola and Cisco supplied the world's first commercial GPRS cellular network to BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom.
2002: Motorola introduced the world's first wireless cable modem gateway.
2003: Motorola introduced the world's first handset to combine a Linux operating system and Java technology with full PDA functionality.

MOBILE DEVICES:
The mobile device is the hub of people’s lives, keeping them connected to the Internet, people, digital images, entertainment and content. The Mobile Devices business designs, manufactures, sells and services wireless handsets with integrated software and accessory products, and licenses intellectual property.