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1. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ... the next few months because, traditionally, Microsoft would be vulnerable and not able to fight back. Second Front However this isn’t their only problem. Verizon, Google and Motorola have opened a ...

2. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 10 August 2009

   Following Motorola’s original announcement that the company would build Google Android-based cellphones, we are now seeing first sketches of the device and are reading about leaked specifications. And ...

3. Nokia and Microsoft in alliance to make Zune phone?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 06 August 2008

   ... move. Yes, we are speculating but you must admit that such a device may make sense. Microsoft already knows how not to create a MP3 player, how not to create a Zune cellphone (see Motorola Rokr) and how ...

4. Oakley, Motorola prep second-generation Bluetooth sunglasses

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 02 August 2007

   Fancy new eyewear from Oakley has popped up on the FCC website: The “O Rokr Pro” will be the second generation of Bluetooth sunglasses to result from the cooperation with Motorola and the ...

5. New Motorizr to make US debut in Academy Awards gift basket

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 02 February 2007

   Motorola's newest mobile handset, the Motorizr Z3, will first find its way to the US to 25 actors and directors nominated for the top designations in the Academy Awards, as part of the nominee gift ...

6. New Motorola Rokr phone ditches Apple Itunes

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 October 2006

   Motorola's first generation Rokr phone never met the expectations users had in an Itunes phone. So it is just consequential that the second generation does not only bring a new, more Razr-like design ...

7. Apple files for iPhone trademark - rumor

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 19 October 2006

   ... The iPhone will face extreme competition if it enters the market. Motorola and other phone manufacturers have had music playing phones for more than a year. Notable models include Motorola's SLVR and ROKR ...

8. Nokia's 4 GB cellphone rival hits U.S. market

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 05 June 2006

   ... more than 10,000 mega-pixel digital images. The first somewhat MP3-focused cellphone in the U.S., Motorola's Ipod phone "Rokr," was less than impressive and disappointed not only Apple fans but music enthusiasts ...

9. 2 GB flash memory for your cellphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 19 April 2006

   ... the fingernail-sized storage device is the fastest and highest capacity memory card for mobile phones, Samsung claims. If the 512 MB storage capacity of Motorola's Rokr phone didn't cut it, and a heavy ...

10. Motorola makes way for Microsoft's 2H 2006 iPod competitor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 13 February 2006

    ... wireless communications and connectivity conferences - Stage I of Microsoft's new strategy may have been unveiled, with a deal with wireless phone leader Motorola that embeds Windows Media streaming and ...

11. Digital music industry sales triple worldwide, says IFPI

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 20 January 2006

    ... Of that amount, 40% can be chocked up to sales from mobile music services, for customers using communications devices to connect to their music. With only the Motorola ROKR phone providing built-in iTunes ...

12. CES 2006: Sony's Sir Howard Stringer spotlights new Walkman, while skirting past DRM, PS3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 January 2006

    ... The device will apparently allow users to download music from MP3 services directly into the phone, bypassing the PC, in a move obviously designed to one-up Motorola's ROKR phone with iTunes. Sir Howard ...

13. Sprint Nextel announces wireless music store with Sanyo, Samsung

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 31 October 2005

    ... to, not just when they are in front of a PC." The statement is apparently indirectly referencing Cingular's existing arrangement with Apple's iTunes service, making songs playable through Motorola's ROKR ...

14. Nokia to offer tunes-playing phone to compete with ROKR

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 September 2005

      Perhaps taking the Motorola CEO's suggestion, Nokia is introducing its new MP3-playing cell phone, and a new PC-based music download service to go with it, according to this report from PC Magazine ...

15. Nokia to offer ROKR competitor phone in Europe

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 20 September 2005

      Ed Oswald of BetaNews is reporting this morning that Nokia has announced a downloadble tunes-playing smart phone for the European market, to compete with Motorola's new iTunes-supporting ROKR: The ...

16. iPod nano dissected, Samsung confirmed as Flash supplier

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Friday, 09 September 2005

    ... is Sandisk. According to a statement released on Friday, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Flash company, provides the 512 MByte MicroSD cards that are included with ROKR iTunes phone manufactured by Motorola ...

17. Madonna, Little Richard to star in Motorola ROKR campaign

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 01 September 2005

      Motorola has recruited ten music industry stars for a television ad to promote its forthcoming ROKR iTunes phones, according to an online report. Motorola has recruited ten music industry stars ...

18. Motorola chief debunks rumors of carriers passing on Rokr iTunes phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 19 May 2005

      During a press conference on Tuesday, company chief Ed Zander said the phone, known as the Rokr, will be out in "a couple of more months," "There is no resistance on anybody's part," Zander said. ...