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...while analysts were tantalized by the prospect of a direct line between two of the world's most important technology companies - and by an announcement by Orange last month that it will sell a Motorola-made Microsoft-based phone - they remained perplexed. Has Microsoft finally established a beachhead into the lucrative but elusive European mobile market? Or is the dongle just one more vaporware announcement...
...been less than welcoming. Despite widespread promotion, the Internet service MSN has not been wildly popular in Europe (neither has its rival, AOL, which is owned by the company that publishes TIME). Only one major mobile - phone operator, Orange, has marketed a phone based on Microsoft software (its new Motorola handset follows an earlier version made by Taiwanese contract manufacturer HTC). And some other deals have gone nowhere or worse (see sidebar on page...
SMITH: One thing you look at is how they allocate capital. [CEO Christopher] Galvin at Motorola is a horrendous allocator of capital. He wants to invent something like his grandfather; he's not running a business. The second thing is to try to get a feel for their internal systems, like General Electric and Wal-Mart...
Cell Phones Motorola's Martin Cooper made the first cellular call in April 1973 on a 28-oz. untethered telephone later dubbed the brick, right. Handsets slimmed down, networks proliferated (and went digital), and subscribers multiplied, producing legions of distracted drivers and rude restaurant companions...
...they could neither sell nor invest there. China could not be more different. Not only are hundreds of American companies investing in plants in China, but they are also diving into the growing Chinese market for consumer goods as if it were going out of style. U.S. firms like Motorola, General Motors and Procter & Gamble can't wait to sell their cell phones, cars and toothpaste to a Chinese population whose appetite for them is insatiable. (Hale points out that the Chinese buy about 2 million cell phones a month.) This division between U.S. companies, mainly large ones, that have...