Motorola Inc.


Company Loves Partnership, Gets Committed

Many small businesses distrust big business. So how was it that corporate-behemoth Motorola taught Bruce Bendoff's little company how to grow by trusting ...  Read story

Quality Wins

Requiring suppliers to meet quality standards.  Read story

Wireless Messaging

New service picks up electronic messages from office computers and radios them to laptop and notebook computers.  Read story

Motorola Expands Mobile Messaging Distribution

The unified mobility solution includes wireless e-mail and other applications.  Read story

Ask Bob Galvin

Bob Galvin was CEO of Motorola from 1958 to 1986. He also founded the nonprofit Galvin Electricity Initiative. Q ...  Read story

Gear: Built to Move

Keep moving. These new electronics will keep you connected.  Read story

Gear: Disconnected (In a Good Way)

This spring's new wireless devices more than cut the cord. They'll let you make free phone calls from a hot spot, transfer pictures to your computer from acr...  Read story

Made In The U.S.A.

Profile of a company aspiring to keep manufacturing cheap and effective in the appliance market.  Read story

Closing the Deal

Three big-time investors have rolled into Miami to listen to 33-year-old whiz kid Marcelo Claure try to sell them a chunk of his company--and, my God, he's l...  Read story

Company Goes Crazy over Partnerships, Gets Committed

The story of how a little company was able to grow to trust a corporate behemoth and the benefits of the relationship.  Read story

Looking Back, Moving Forward

Bob Galvin helped transform Motorola from a small tech company into a household name. Today, in his mid-80s, he's turning his attention to several new ventures.  Read story

World Without Wires

Three companies are capitalizing on the emerging wireless mobile computing market.  Read story

Pulling the Plug

A management expert explains that to make room for new projects, you must stop some old ones.  Read story

What Comes Next?

A best-selling business author tells why products, strategy, and charismatic leadership will become things of the past.  Read story

Leadership: Building Companies to Last

A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success.  Read story

When It Positively Has To Save You Money

Let Federal Express flood the airwaves with fast-talking executives. Let Purolater Courier, Emery Air Freight, and their ilk compete for the overnight-del...  Read story

Green Technology Gadgets

Acer Timeline Acer Timeline Acer's new laptop, which is scheduled for release this month, uses as much as a third less energy than typical notebo...  Read story

Obit: Fast-Paced Rivals Silence Talking Beeper Service

Here's how fierce competition and the expense of building a national infrastructure rendered Conxus Communications, a voice- and text-paging service, permane...  Read story

Why 80 Is the New 30

Forget shuffleboard and croquet. With Americans living longer, a growing number of people are embarking on entrepreneurial second careers -- well into their ...  Read story

Gear: Tune In, Tune Out

The latest gadgets to help you shut out the world.  Read story

Just Say No

Seven CEOs give different examples of when they refused to make deals to avoid doing bad business.  Read story

Microcomputers;

OVER RECENT YEARS, FRESH GENerations of microcomputers and their concomitant acronyms have been appearing with bewildering frequency, doubling and redoubl...  Read story

A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books: Billion Dollar Lessons

Chunka Mui follows Unleashing the Killer App with Billion Dollar Lessons.   Read story

Give Government Research Back To Entrepreneurs

Federal research laboratories have no business working on gas heaters, solar power, or other programs that compete directly with the private sector.  Read story

Pagers That Say Who Called

Prices for alphanumeric pagers, which can display messages, have dropped.  Read story

You Can Take It With You

Hard-driving entrepreneurs hit the road in their high-tech mobile offices.  Read story

What Makes a Company Great?

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.'  Read story

Footloose and Wire-free

How wireless phones, modems, and printers connected a consultant with clients in hurricane-whipped Hawaii.  Read story

Gamma Tester

Given the fast pace of business, a salesperson needs every edge possible when it comes to personal productivity. Take a genuine gadget guy like Steve Ettr...  Read story

2003 Tech Buying Guide: Phones Break New Ground

Report from business owners on the latest in cell phones.  Read story

Gearing Up

The latest tech toys you'll want, including Kyocera's Koi camera phone and OQO's Ultra Personal Computer.  Read story

Computing by Radio

New radio-packet modems available.  Read story

Sleep Is for Wusses

Mark Landiak, a sales-training consultant, lists five tips for maximizing productivity and squeezing the most work into each day. His advice: sleep less, wor...  Read story

Open Up to New Ideas about Networking

Networlding by Melissa Giovagnoli and Jocelyn Carter-Miller Jossey-Bass, 2000, 216 pages, $25 In Networldi...  Read story

Strategies: The Don't-Take-It-to-Market Alternative

Sometimes getting smaller is the only way to get bigger.  Read story

Networking Without Wires

Networked computers can be connected by infrared light.  Read story

The Visionary

Bob Galvin transformed Motorola into a global telecommunications giant and helped usher in the wireless age. Now, at 85, he’s searching for a solution to t...  Read story

Working on the Highway

An overview of a Web-based service for road warriors who need to maintain communications with customers.  Read story

How China Will Change Your Business

Fourteen things every entrepreneur should know about the capitalist explosion heading our way. But don't assume that conceding China's rise means conceding t...  Read story

Working With Ease

New storage drives, desktop monitors, and phone systems are designed for higher productivity and an enhanced work style.  Read story