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...Welch has also transformed GE into a higher quality organization through his thorough implementation of Six Sigma. An overarching business improvement strategy that originated at Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma is a quality control initiative that aims to increase product quality. To achieve a six sigma level of quality, a process must produce no more than 3.4 defects per million parts...
...year-old assumed his parents were calling at such an unearthly hour to talk about an upcoming family holiday. "When my mother broke the news," he says, "all I could think of was the great physical distance between us." How could he juggle his work commitments at Motorola, where he is a software analyst, and his desire to see his father...
...developers to come up with hundreds of applications. Anoto is also working with penmakers like Mont Blanc to develop variants of the Chatpen, with papermakers like 3M (of Post-it fame) and Esselte, and with mobile network operators like Vodaphone. The initial Anoto-enabled pens, manufactured by Ericsson and Motorola, should be on the market this fall when the first network operator, the Swedish unit of Vodaphone, offers the service to subscribers. By that time, digital paper will be available in notepads, organizers and Post-it notes...
...Especially not when Replay TV, based up the road in Mountain View, just signed a deal with Motorola to install its PVR in up to five million cable boxes. Talk about leapfrogging. TiVo is feeling the heat: it just laid off 23% of its staff and said it would not be seeking extra funding this year...
...whole mobile revolution looks further off than once seemed likely. The Financial Times recently reported that only two of the 11 manufacturers with whom NTT DoCoMo had signed contracts for 3G handsets would be ready for a scheduled launch of the service in May. Meanwhile, manufacturers like Ericsson, Motorola and Siemens are scaling back their projections for today's mobile phones, never mind tomorrow's; Ericsson's shares tumbled to a 17-month low after the company said that it expected handset sales to be considerably lower in 2001 than last year. Even Nokia, long the worldwide darling...