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The article focuses on the emergence of India as a center of strategic research and development and a growing market for information technology products. Engineers and computer scientists at Motorola Inc. are inventing networking technologies and displays using nanotechnology and new software for cellular telephones. Using their mathematics skills, Microsoft Corp. researchers are working on cryptography problems. Other computer firms are also developing technologies at their Indian subsidiaries.

Features the winners of the design awards given by the periodical "Modern Plastics." JBL Creature self-powered sound system from Harman Multimedia; Headsets by Motorola; ClearVision hockey-shield support from DW Product Development and Innovative Arena Products; Plastic distributor gear for racing cars from Performance Plastics.

Presents an update on telecommunications as of September 2001. Presentation of CosmoCom call center platform; Selection of eOn Communications' Queue MultiMedia Contact Solution by Lillian Vernon; Integration of Motorola's VoIP gateway routers with Symbol Technologies.

Discusses the development and deployment of fault-tolerant systems by Motorola Computer Group and Ziatech. Failover of computer processing unit boards; Details on the information technology solution employed by Blue Wave Systems. INSETS: CPCI SBC FAILOVER TECHNIQUES: THE BASICS;FAILOVER STRATEGIES;A NEW FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM: SBS TECHNOLOGIES' CASCADE II.

Focuses on the use of wireless technology on cellular phones and personal digital assistants by several high technology companies. Handspring Inc.; Motorola Inc.; Nokia Corp.; Palm Inc.

Reports on the benefits in using the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system for corporate networks and mobile computers. Upgrade of the operating system of Motorola Inc. to Windows 2000; Reliability and manageability of the operating system; Notebook power-management features of Windows 2000. INSET: IT Managers Rush To Upgrade Notebook PCs.

Focuses on the competition among digital signal processor (DSP) companies in the computer board market. Description of the PowerPC MPC7400 processor from Motorola Inc.; Benefits offered by the processor; Top vendors of DSP. INSET: Getting a fix on the common flavors of DSP.

Presents news briefs from the information technology (IT) industry on July 14, 1999. Information on the key IT project-implementation priorities for 1999; Importance of seals of approval programs to IT managers for certifying electronic commerce sites; Information on the team up of Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems to acquire Bosch Telecom Inc.

Focuses on International Business Machines Corp. and Motorola Inc.'s PowerPC 620 microprocessor. Architecture; Pipelines; Floating-point performance and modes; Execution units; Interface.

Presents the people who departed from Motorola Semiconductor in 1968 and moved to other electronic companies. Former Motorola general manager who was sued and charged with stealing trade secrets; Former Motorola IC marketing director, Stephen Levy; Motorola's former sales manager, Joseph Van Poppelen.

Evaluates some analog products from Motorola semiconductor product sector. High voltage Power Factor Correction (PFC) controller; Octal serial switch; 3.0 and 3.3 versions of the LP2950 micropower low dropout voltage regulator.

Reports on success of former executives of Motorola. Carl Schlachte, CEO of ARC International; Lester Hogan, of CEO LSI Logic Corp.; Tom Hart, CEO of QuickLogic Corp.; John Bourgoin, of CEO MIPS Technologies Inc.

Reports on the impact of the mobile communications architecture launched by Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector on the company's market share. Balance between technical innovation and strategic positioning as an independent company; Complete separation of the applications and communications sections in a bid to decrease development complexity and cost; Target applications of the architecture.

Examines key issues relevant to wafer fabrication development and manufacturing by the semiconductor products and chips company, Motorola Inc. Challenges in water fabrication design and manufacturing; Corporate reorganization; Competition with other chip companies; Business operations. INSETS: Reuse tops design agenda;Motorola's comeback.

Discusses the benefits of re-engineering a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) in designing and building a single-board computer. Introduction of the Vanguard 7300 series of high-performance devices from Motorola Inc.; Optional board using the CompactPCI interface added in the product; Technical challenges faced by Motorola engineers.

Reports on the reliable system offered by Motorola Computer Group in cooperation with Wind River Systems Inc. to help telecommunication companies meet the demands of increased reliability, availability, serviceability and security. Ways redundant systems can be created; Ways of enhancing the reliability of a system; One successful way for vendor alliances to provide high-availability support while handling time-to-market pressures.

Focuses on the purchase bid made by Motorola Inc. to General Instrument Corp. and the deal of Sony Corp. of America with Cablevision Systems Corp. Implication of the deal of General Instrument with Motorola; Terms of the acquisition deal signed by General Instrument; Digital box of Sony to be purchased by Cablevision.

Provides information on a fast software-focused virtual prototype developed by Software Development Systems and Motorola Semiconductor which can be used by embedded system developers for system-on-chip design. Capabilities of the prototype; Difference with Electronic Design Automation-style cosimulation-based virtual prototype; Function of cycle-accurate simulation, a component of software-focused virtual prototypes.

Deals with Motorola Incorporated's Semiconductor Products Sector's (SPS) process and marketing strategy for Internet Protocol (IP). Implication of the announcement of the company for its marketing strategy; Possible effect of the marketing approach of Motorola to the industry; Key to the marketing strategy of Motorola.

Offers a look on the moves by Motorola Computer Group and Intel Corporation to focus on X86 architecture in embedded computing. Motorola's intent to purchase Pro-Log Corp; Intel's release of its Pentium II-based P7000 single-board computer; Reason of Motorola's acquisition of Pro-Log.

Focuses on the challenges posed by Motorola's 680XO family of general microprocessors to the design-for-test (DFT) team. Competitive demands of embedded-processor market; General design issues facing the DFT team; Adoption of memory-built-in-self-test (BIST) methodology; Other methodologies; More.

Reports that in 1998, Motorola installed a rapid metal tooling system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description of this system; ProMetal's commercialization of this product; Comment from Daniel L. Plazek, manager of the ProMetal Division of ExtrudeHone Corp.; How this system works.

Reports on the move of Motorola to plug into content delivery network (CDN) to provide its global workforce with Internet access and streaming video. Primary driving forces for cache-basxed Enterprise Content Delivery Networks; Benefits of ECDN. INSET: Business Profile MOTOROLA.

Focuses on the use of rapid prototyping by Motorola in designing mobile telephones and communication devices. Advantages and disadvantages of using rapid prototyping; Approach used by Motorola's engineers; Benefits gained from the use of rapid prototyping. INSET: COLOR OFFERS TECHNICAL INSIGHT.

Discusses how to apply some of the inherent cleanliness of object-oriented design into procedural language projects. Details on the PageWriter project of Motorola; Techniques used in merging functionality and data; Conclusion.

Provides a directory of the top 25 companies in the semiconductor industry. Information on Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp.; Details on Tokyo, Japan-based NEC Corp.; Information on Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola Inc.

Reports on the business developments of the Motorola Corporation in the U.S. Impact of Alfred R. Lucas, vice-president and director of Japan paging operations, in the success of Motorola's paging operations since 1974; Contributions of Lucas in the company; Business developments of the company in Asia; INSETS: Six Steps to Quality;Advisers on Quality.

Features commercial catalogs concerning engineering, compiled as of December 1991. AMP Inc.'s system design analysis; U.S. Tsubaki Inc.'s corrosion-resistant chain; Motorola Inc.'s semiconductors; Letraset USA's design tools; Alloy Products Corp.'s metalforming; Namco Controls' electronic label system.

The article introduces the Motorola's Wrist Watch Pager. The latest pager will remain a comic-book fantasy without miniaturization of electronics in the form of integrated circuits etched onto silicon. Timex Watches, the nation's leading watch maker, joined forces with Motorola to design the strap/antenna.

Discusses methods in creating a smart sensor system. Features of a smart sensor; Development of a processor from Texas Instruments; Semicustom and custom microcontrollers from Motorola; Use of electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM); Applications of the two parts; Legislation as the reason for the design; TSS400 and TSS200 sensor signal processor; Use in fast food restaurants; Powersaving features. INSET: Expect higher integration..

Reports on Motorola Inc.'s commitment to the development of 12-inch silicon wafers. Plans to convert semiconductor fabrication lines before 1998; Lack of industry leadership for device manufacturers; Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International's Semicon/West 94 conference's forum on pros and cons of various wafer diameters; Consensus on 12 inches as next-generation wafer size.

Presents update on electronic circuits as of May 15, 2000. Capabilities of the PCnet-PRO Fast Ethernet controller from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Cost of the asynchronous transfer mode interconnect chips from Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group; Features of the front end chips for DSL released by Motorola Incorporated.

The article offers information on the growth of the tablet computers. It states that the technology development for tablet computers started in 1980s, but it was in 2010 when the Apple Inc. introduced its iPad. It mentions that Apple Inc. initiated competition to a new developing market. It highlights that companies like Motorola Inc., Research in Motion Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. launched new tablet computers.

The article reports on the forecasts for chief executive officers (CEOs) in relation to economic crisis. It states that co-CEOs Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha of Motorola Inc. were viewed to separate in 2010 due to board of director's plan to divide the firm into two entities. It mentions that the loss of jobs of some CEOs in 2009 was due to dissatisfaction of shareholders on their performance. It adds that CEOs who fail to adjust costs with marketing strategies will also loose their jobs in 2010.

The article accounts the marketing processes of Motorola Inc., a mobile company in the U.S. It notes that the company will launch a Droid smartphone, which is said will likely to repeat the company's past mistake in mobile. Sanjay Jha, co-chief executive officer and executive officer of the company's mobile devices business plans to drive smartphone capabilities into price-conscious segments and speculated that an increase of sales.

The article offers information on the green technology offered by Motorola Inc. towards its cellphone products. It features the carbon neutral phone, W233 design by the company which is said to be made out of recycled water bottles. It notes on the claims of the company that the mobile phone has more than or equal to 65 percent product recyclability. It also cites the issue on the phone's similarity with the 2008's W230 mobile phone model.

The article reports on the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Motorola Inc., Gregory Brown. It is stated that Brown's new position will take effect in January 2007. Moreover, Brown's appointment earned support from shareholders which reveals the growth of the company's stock price of up to 2%. According to the author, the new CEO points to take more than another change in executive leadership to turn the company around.

The article evaluates the F3 Fone cellular telephone from Motorola Inc.

The article analyzes the presentation made by chief executive officers (CEOs) of the two rival cell phone companies, Ed Zander of Motorola Inc., and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo of Nokia Corp., on its business performances in June-ended quarter. In second quarter, Motorola Inc., was overpowered by Samsung Electronics Inc., as the world's second-biggest wireless handset vendor. Analyst believes that Motorola Inc., need to improve its product line to compete with Nokia in the foreign market.

The article reports on the widening commercial divergence of Java products by Motorola Inc., Nokia Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. in the U.S. This divergence and the differences of ideas on how to keep Java open have threatened to fracture the broad community of Java developers. Sun has announced their Java Mobile FX, a high-end software package for cellular phones. The news of Sun has surprised executives from Motorola and Nokia.

The article presents information about the new innovative smartphones that have entered the market. These include Motorola Inc.'s Q, Research In Motion Ltd.'s Pearl, and High Tech Computer Corp.'s Shift and Advantage. Samsung of Korea released a series of smartphones under the Ultra and BlackJack lines including a thin model called F700 with a slide-out keyboard.

The article evaluates various mobile e-mail devices including Q from Mototrola Inc., E61 from Nokia Corp., and BlackBerry 8700c from Research In Motion Ltd.

The article evaluates the Motorola HMEZ1000 home monitoring and control system from Motorola Inc. INSETS: IN BRIEF;Component focus.

The article reports on the plan of Motorola Inc. to integrated electrophoeric displays (EPD) on its mobile phones in Taipei, Taiwan. Motorola chose the EPD for its high contrast, thin profile and power-saving characteristics. The substrates of EPD are made up of tiny pockets that contains charged particle suspended in an opaque liquid. However, the Motofone is only limited to black, which targets emerging markets like Brazil and India.

The article reports on the plan of Motorola Inc. to expand its operations. The company will add staff and research and development in its operations in Singapore. It mentions the purpose of a handset and telecommunications equipment plant which the firm plans to build near Madras, India. The firm also plans to increase its operations in Vietnam.

The article reports on the proposal of handset makers to create an open, Linux-based reference platform for handsets. Handset makers Motorola, NEC, Samsung Electronics and Panasonic have joined with telecom operators NTT Docomo and Vodafone in a bid to create a reference implementation built around a consistent set of Linux application programming interfaces for use by manufacturers and tool developers. The aim is to foster a true developer community around mobile applications for Linux.

The article introduces the latest, useful and recreational technological innovations. Sony Electronics Inc. unveiled its half-inch-thick Portable Reader System PRS-500, a paperback-size electronic device which is capable of storing 80 books. Creative Labs Inc. reveals its Skype Internet PhonePlus, which allows users to make voice Internet phone calls without a personal computer. Motorola Inc. collaborated with Nikko Company Ltd. for the creation of a 1/16-scale remote control toy car.

The article focuses on the designs of thin phone handsets introduced by Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. It has given inspiration to other companies too. The Panasonic EB-X800 triband GSM camera phone is a new model in just 17mm. It is a few millimeters thicker than the ultraslender designs of from Motorola and Samsung. The tight control of customer hardware provisioning by the U.S. and other global carriers lags the direct retail handset sales to those of designs subsidized through carrier plans.

The article reports on the wider applications of Linux operating systems in sophisticated cellular phones and other mobile devices. Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which employs Linux creator Linus Torvalds, last week said it has brought together Motorola Inc. and several other high-tech vendors to develop a Linux platform for sophisticated cellular phones and other mobile devices. OSDL plans to develop a base-level platform upon which handset manufacturers can build. Requirements for the open-source operating system would include power management to increase battery life.

The article informs that Sprint Corp. and Motorola Inc. are working together to test wireless broadband services using WiMax. But Sprint pointedly told that it hasn't necessarily selected WiMax as its future wireless broadband technology. Sprint is eyeing wireless multimedia services and mobile WiMax services for the tests, which will be in laboratories and outdoor environments. Nextel Communications Inc., which is merging with Sprint, also told that it will test a rival technology to WiMax, UMTS TDD, in the Washington D.C., area.