Word: motorola
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...Hope celebrity golf tournament and managing to squeeze in speeches to five special- interest groups. And just after New Year's Day, 18 Senators and their wives were flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., to play in a charity tennis tournament with executives of Dow Chemical, Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Motorola. The next weekend another group of Senators was schussing down the slopes in Park City, Utah, courtesy of American Express, Delta Airlines and U S West...
...some products fail to sell in Japan, even though the market is opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone in some of these disputes. Try selling telecommunications...
...first mobile phones that came out were fine -- as long as you had a pack mule to carry them. They were a long way from a James Bond-style phone that would be small enough to fit under a pillow or in a vest pocket. Now Motorola has made a giant step toward a truly mobile phone. The company last week introduced its Micro TAC Personal Telephone, which is about the size of a checkbook. It is 13.5 in. long and weighs just 12.3 oz. The phone comes in two models that carry price tags...
...corporate lifetime." Last week the hottest, newest workstations went on display at San Francisco's UniForum. Once an obscure trade show, it attracted more than 22,000 computer buffs this year, and they were not disappointed. Some 250 exhibitors, from Apollo to Zenith, put their wares on display. Motorola rolled out a new line of workstations with up to 60 times the power of a PC. Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...