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28 unusual facts about Motorola


AN/FPS-23

The AN/FPS-23 DEW-Line radar system was manufactured by Motorola, and operated at frequencies between 475 and 525 MHz, with 1 kilowatt of output power.

Corporate university

By 2001, this number had increased to 2,000, including Walt Disney, Boeing, and Motorola.

Daljit Singh Baath

After completing his studies in Microelectronics, Baljit Singh Deo worked as an engineer for a few years for companies like Motorola and EA Sports.

DataTAC

DataTAC is a wireless data network technology originally developed by Motorola and deployed in the United States as the ARDIS network.

DayStar Digital

The company focused exclusively on this market for the full range of Mac computers through 1995, utilizing the Motorola 68030, 68040 and PowerPC 601 processors.

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza

There are five different types of firearms, as well as items such as a Zippo lighter and a Motorola radio that can be used to accomplish various tasks.

Dineo Ranaka

Due to her shows success she won the favor of clients such as Love Life, Sanlam, Samsung, Motorola, Vodacom, Cadbury and Levis, just to name a few, requesting that she specifically run and drive their on-air campaigns.

Enhanced GPS

January 2008 - CSR & Motorola announce that they intend to create an open industry forum for EGPS technologies

It is being developed by CSR who has partnered with Motorola – together they intend to create an open industry forum.

Enhanced Messaging Service

Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), is a cross-industry collaboration between Samsung, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens and Alcatel, among others.

Florida State Road 807

At this intersection is the Renaissance Commons, a shopping center and restaurant locale built on the former site of a Motorola plant.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

The company represents the acquisition and realignment of other government and defense contractors including GTE, Lucent Technologies, Digital Systems Resources (DSR), Veridian, Motorola and Spectrum Astro.

Hector Ruiz

Ruiz worked at Texas Instruments for six years and Motorola for 22 years, rising to become president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector before being recruited in 2000 by AMD founder Jerry Sanders to serve as AMD's president and chief operating officer, and to become heir apparent to lead the company upon Sanders' retirement.

Inboxtv

Company executives were Barak Kassar, founder and CEO, formerly of Wink Communications, Jim Spare, COO, formerly of General Instrument (now Motorola) and WebTV (now Microsoft), Alan Teague, CTO, formerly of Kinecta, Susan Evans, formerly of Publicis, Sandy Frank, four-time Emmy winning writer for David Letterman and Tim Myers, a CLIO winning animator

Java Agent Development Framework

In March 2003 Motorola and Telecom Italia create the JADE Governing Board with the objective of promoting the development and adoption of JADE in the mobile telecommunications industry as middleware based.

McLaren Electronic Systems

Also they have provided for the IndyCar Series since 2012 who replacing Motorola as ECU supplier and this module was the basis for the NASCAR unit.

Mobile phone operator

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first analog mobile phone call using a heavy prototype model.

Mobileer

Motorola created a line of mobile radios in the 1930s and 1940s for use in police cruisers and later, for use in taxicabs.

New York State Route 400

NY 400 also passes a small industrial area containing manufacturing plants for Moog, Inc, Motorola, Servotronics, and Steuben Foods located on Maple Street and Jamison Road.

North Warning System

Motorola AN/FPS-23 short range search radar was installed at the Intermediate sites, used as fillers to cover any Long Range Radar surveillance gaps.

Shirish Kunder

Kunder studied electronics and communications engineering from SDM College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad, Karnataka and worked for Motorola.

SouthernLINC Wireless

SouthernLINC Wireless is also a Motorola iDEN network with a broad dealer base and is a subsidiary of Southern Company.

Synchronous Data Link Control

Other vendors putting hardware support for SDLC (and the slightly different HDLC) into communication controller chips of the 1980s included Intel, Zilog, Motorola, and National Semiconductor.

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The program evolved from NBC's first TV variety showcase, Four Star Revue, sponsored by Motorola.

The New Rags

Their single "Your Room" has been placed in advertisements for Nike and Motorola.

TRIPOS

Those two concepts together allowed for sending and receiving over 1250 packets per second on a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 CPU.

Willie E. Gary

Recently, he was seeking legal fees equal to $22,000 per hour in connection with litigation against Motorola.

Xootr

The members of the Xootr LLC team have created products for many companies including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola.


Andrew Filipowski

Filipowski founded or served in an executive capacity in a number of companies including divine, inc., DBMS, Inc. and Cullinet Corp; he also served in various managerial and technical positions with A.B. Dick, Motorola and Time, Inc.

David E. Potter

In 1998, using Psion’s experience in small mobile operating systems, David led the creation of Symbian Limited in partnership with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita to create the operating system standard for mobile wireless devices - now known as Symbian.

Eilidh MacQueen

Her early career involved a litany of modelling jobs, including FHM Thailand in which she was voted 25th sexiest female in the world, catwalk for La Perla, Yves Saint Lauren, Lanvin and Chanel, catalogue work for Motorola, Samsung, Christian Dior, commercials for Panasonic and Toyota and videos for Thai music acts Joey Boy and 'Jiwa'.

Emmanuel Yarborough

He appeared in a 1997 Bollywood film Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi which features Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar and has appeared on several talk shows, as well as in a commercial for Motorola.

Etsuro Nakamichi

At one point in the mid 1960s the company manufactured tape decks for a number of foreign companies including Ampex, Harman Kardon and Motorola.

Federal University of Campina Grande

Multinational companies like Honda, Motorola, Coca-cola and Alumar, recruite new graduates every six months for their companies in Brazil.

Freescale 68HC08

Like all Motorola processors that share lineage from the 6800, they use the von Neumann architecture as well as memory-mapped I/O.

Freescale ColdFire

The Freescale ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor division of Motorola).

History of Markham, Ontario

ATI Technologies, IBM Canada, Apple Computer Canada, Motorola Canada and many other well-known companies have chosen Markham as their home in Canada.

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

It is close to HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers.

Jed S. Rakoff

Motorola Credit Corporation and Nokia brought suit against the Uzan family of Turkey.

Jules B. Kroll

They first helped Nokia and Motorola find $2.7 billion that had been invested with the Uzan family in Turkey.

Mark Tatge

At Forbes, Tatge wrote profiles and interviewed chief executives at many top 100 U.S. corporations, including Boeing, Motorola, United Airlines, 3M, AT&T, US Airways, Delta Air Lines, Best Buy and FedEx.

Mateo Guez

Recent efforts include his work as one of three contributing directors to the unique interactive feature, Late Fragment – an official selection at TIFF 2007 – as well as a variety of short films/photo installations shot using only a Motorola cell phone.

Mehul Shah

Mehul has also done commercial and print work for Dell, Comerica Bank, The Texas State Lottery, Chuck E. Cheese, Nokia, MTV India, J. C. Penney, and Motorola.

Motorola 68030

The Motorola 68030 ("sixty-eight-oh-thirty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in Motorola's 68000 family.

Nick Tredennick

Harry L. ("Nick") Tredennick is an American manager, inventor, VLSI design engineer and author who was involved in the development for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software provides technology to a number of companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more.

Red Bend Software

Red Bend’s software has been deployed by handset manufacturers including Kyocera, LG Electronics, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and ZTE, as well as companies in the mobile, M2M, automotive and enterprise markets.

Rich Page

He was responsible for the decision to use the Motorola MC68000 family of microprocessors for Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers and was instrumental in the initial design of the Lisa.

Robert Loring

With offices in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, the partners have worked on over $15 billion in transactions with corporations such as AT&T, BASF, Bayer, General Electric, Hays PLC, IBM, Lucent, Motorola, Universal Group and Williams Communications.

Saint Clair Cemin

He has executed many private and public commissions, among them the Reston Town Center, Virginia; Båstads Kommun, Sweden; and Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois.

Shaul Elovitch

A year later Cellcom entered Israel's cellular network arena and became a client of Eurocom's Nokia phones, and together the two rivaled Pelephone's Motorola-based dominance of Israel's mobile phone market.

Sholes

Motorola Droid, an Android-based smartphone by Motorola, previously publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855.

UIQ Technology

The UIQ platform was, for example, used in mobile phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ and Arima.

UIQ Technology, established in 1999, was owned jointly by Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

Yamigo

::"We would like to stress the fact that we see a benefit in using some chat clients over others. For example, most of the existing Nokia and Ericsson phones use a compressed version of the data exchange protocol, known as WBXML, while Motorola chat clients use plain XML. Motorola generate data transfers ten times higher than Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones."

ΜClinux

Initially, they targeted the Motorola DragonBall family of embedded 68k processors (specifically the 68EZ328 series used in the Motorola PalmPilot) on a 2.0.33 Linux kernel.