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Motorola CEO Ed Zander out

Motorola CEO Ed Zander outMotorola story is sadTrust me , I know. They invented the cellphone and look at them - chasing Nokia, Samsung. They have great technology, people but lack of visionary leaders. Zander was much better than the old tired leadership but Zander did not clean...

Tags: Leadership, TV & Home Theater, Sun Microsystems Inc., Internet, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Motorola CEO Ed Zander out; Icahn calls move overdue

Updated below: Motorola said Friday that CEO Ed Zander has stepped aside and will be replaced by current chief operating officer Greg Brown. Zander will remain chairman of Motorola until the company's annual shareholder meeting in May. The news isn't entirely unexpected given that Zander has been under fire...

Tags: Ed Zander, Motorola Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Start the Zander countdown: Motorola warns (again)

Start the Zander countdown: Motorola warns againWell if Motorola is having problems , they should get rid of ZANDER .This is just a test .Campaign to remove Ed Zander from MotorolaI wanted to alert you to the shareholder action campaign on YouChoose, that, among other things, requests the removal of...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Financial accounting, Wi-Fi, Motorola Inc., Ed Zander

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Moto's Zander talks up RAZR's forthcoming live video capture

Next up at NXTcomm is Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola.Major takeaway from Zander's address is the evolution in the way content is created and then distributed. "It is changing from tv channels to spontaneous generation," he said.Ed then explained Motorola's belief that this spontaneous generation will be enabled in the...

Tags: trends, NXTComm, News

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Software 2007: Motorola CEO Ed Zander says leave the PC behind

Software 2007: Motorola CEO Ed Zander says leave the PC behindPCs made him rich, just like how the middle class made Gates rich.Note how both PC and middle class are slowly being discarded... but whatever, that's silly hyperbole. The following isn't:If Microsoft had a clue, they would have...

Tags: PDAs, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Desktops, Handhelds, Cellular phones, software, gateway device, PC, Motorola Inc., PDA, Ed Zander, cell phone

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Software 2007: Motorola CEO Ed Zander says leave the PC behind

Fresh from blocking Carl Icahn from getting a board seat, Motorola CEO Ed Zander gave a keynote at the Software 2007 Conference. He didnt have anything to say about the boardroom battle, and wasnt asked during a Q&A with conference host M.R. Rangaswami, and gave an overview of Motorolas vision--focusing...

Tags: Broadband, General, iPhone, Mobile, Motorola, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Photos: Motorola rides cell phone craze

In CES keynote speech, Motorola CEO Ed Zander says the company's mission is to make everything mobile.

Tags: keynote speech, Motorola Inc., cell phone, telephone, Ed Zander, CEO, Consumer Electronics Show, mobile marketing

Image galleries 2007-01-08

Moto's Q arrives but will it survive (the test)

Per the promise of Motorola CEO Ed Zander last week at both JavaOne and Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Moto announced today that its Q smartphone is finally shipping and, not surprisingly, Verizon Wireless is the launch carrier. Sprint will very likely be next as the Q is CDMA-EVDO ready (Sprint and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2006-05-22

Old news from Schwartz and Zander

The two big headlines today are that Java is on the road to open source ("It's not whether, but how. We'll go do this," new Sun software head Rich Green told the new Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne) and that the 'Q,' Motorola's thin, Windows Mobile smart phone/PDA is...

Tags: Ed Zander

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Moto's Zander: Global Mobile... the net will follow us (instead of vice-versa)

Here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, Motorola CEO Ed Zander took center stage to, among other things, talk about his company's new smartphone a term he refrains from using himself to describe the device: the Motorola Q. Zander admitted to the largely enterprise audience that Motorola is...

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Blog posts 2006-05-16

Motorola's pugnacious Ed Zander chosen to lead US high-tech industry in important policy battles

Motorola's pugnacious Ed Zander chosen to lead US high-tech industry in important policy battlesTech industry looking for a free ride.Funny how every one of these so called "efforts" are all aimed at allowing the tech industry to obtain free content that doesn't belong to them.One can only hope the law...

Tags: policy battle, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-12-09

Motorola's pugnacious Ed Zander chosen to lead US high-tech industry in important policy battles

Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola, is the new chairman of the Technology CEO Council--a Washington D.C. lobbying group consisting of the top echelons of the US tech industry.Take a look: Founded in 1989, its members include Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard; Joseph McGrath, CEO of Unisys; William Nuti,...

Tags: industry, tech industry, tech company

Blog posts 2005-12-09

Motorola's Ed Zander unplugged

Motorola's Ed Zander unpluggedPodcasting - revolution and evolutionDissatisfaction with traditional radio — which has too much advertising and is perceived to have generic programming — is fueling interest in programming that better meets the individual needs and interests of consumers. Podcasting represents a shift from mass broadcasting to on–demand personalized...

Tags: Podcasts, podcasting, Madden 2005, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Motorola's Ed Zander on leadership

As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event, entitled "Leadership Defined," at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Motorola CEO Ed Zander was interviewed [podcast here] by Elizabeth Corcoran, senior editor at Forbes Magazine. Zander talked about how he came into the struggling 75-year-old company about two...

Tags: Leadership, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc., Podcasts, Digital Music, Internet, Personal Technology, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Motorola's Ed Zander unplugged

After nearly two years at the helm at 75-year-old Motorola, Ed Zander is feeling pretty good. The company has grown its share of the handset/mobile device market, garnered attention for its slick Razr phone and Rokr iTunes phone, and its enterprise business is thriving. Michael Singer of news.com and...

Tags: Motorola Inc., podcast, Ed Zander

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Ed Zander, the mobile man

Coming soon: I just recorded a podcast with Motorola CEO Ed Zander, and got a good look at the new mobile devices not cell phones and what keeps him awake at night. The podcast, recorded at the Churchill Club's 20 anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,...

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Blog posts 2005-09-23

Photo: Motorola's new mobiles

Motorola CEO Ed Zander shows off two hotly anticipated phones he said will be available ahead of schedule.

Tags: Motorola Inc., mobile, photograph, telephone, CEO, mobile marketing, Ed Zander

Image galleries 2005-09-23

Photo: Motorola's new mobiles

Motorola CEO Ed Zander shows off two hotly anticipated phones he said will be available ahead of schedule.

Tags: Motorola Inc., mobile, photograph, telephone, CEO, mobile marketing, Ed Zander

Image galleries 2005-09-23

Additional Resources

Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101

Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...

Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13