Motorola: Becoming a 'Peripheral Player'
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Motorola is struggling to turn less into more. Never has that been more apparent than on Feb. 3, when quarterly financial figures showed a company becoming a shadow of its former self.
Once the world's largest maker of wireless handsets, Motorola (MOT) said it shipped 19 million phones in the fourth quarter, about half the number it shipped a year earlier. The de facto inventor of the cell phone introduced 50 phones in 2008; that number may be halved this year.