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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Motorola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Founder Paul Galvin came up with the name Motorola when his company started manufacturing car radios (a number of early companies making phonographs, radios, and other audio equipment in the early 20th century used the suffix "-ola", the most famous being Victrola; there was also the film editing device called a Moviola). |
 | | Motorola has recently been regaining market share in the cellular-phone business from Nokia, Samsung and others due to stylish new cellular phone designs like the Motorola RAZR V3, and unveiled the first ever iTunes phone, the Motorola ROKR E1, in September 2005. |
 | | Current members of the board of directors of Motorola are: Laurance Fuller, Judy Lewent, Walter Massey, Thomas Meredith, Nicholas Negroponte, Indra Nooyi, Samuel Scott, Ron Sommer, James Stengel, Douglas Warner, John A. White, Miles White, and Edward Zander. |
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