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  • Motorola unveils next generation rugged handheld

    He went to explain that the MC9500 is a result of the combination of the respective strengths of both Motorola and Symbol Technologies, which it acquired back in 2006.The MC9500 is going to be a game changer," said Paul Reed, EMEA product…
    16 September 2009
    Tags: Handset • Charge • Division • Battery • Handheld • Mobility

  • Motorola signs up AirDefense

    Motorola's core markets are vertical industries, namely retail, supply chain, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, health care and government.AirDefense's products can secure wireless LANs from a wide variety of vendors, and that…
    29 July 2008
    Tags: Acquisition • Motorola • North America • Wlans • Wireless Lan

  • Good looks for common mobile management platform

    Good Technology, with sister company Symbol, is set to offer products that can support all types of mobile devices.A Symbol device on the loading dock doesn't have the same security policies and applications as smartphones, but you don't need two…
    07 April 2008
    Tags: Motorola • Policies • Nancy Gohring • Symbol • Pbx • Mobile Devices

  • Motorola adds branch AP to WLAN

    Motorola has been ramping up marketing for the Symbol wireless LAN products, which it bought in 2006. Motorola has a lot more salespeople behind the products than Symbol did, and he expects share to grow.
    26 February 2008
    Tags: Motorola • Market Share • Lan • Aruba • Wan • Talk

  • Aruba shows off toughened WLAN gear

    Motorola, via its Symbol acquisition, also targets industrial enterprises with WLAN infrastructure and handhelds.Aruba's AP-85 will ship by the end of March. "Explosion resistant" isn't a label most of us expect to see on a wireless LAN access…
    07 February 2008
    Tags: Access Point • Display • Led • Aruba • Mesh • Distance

  • Motorola may shed mobile phone division

    Fourth-quarter sales were up in both the Home and Networks Mobility group, which makes set-top boxes and wireless infrastructure, and in Enterprise Mobility, which benefitted from Motorola's acquisition of Symbol Technologies early last year…
    01 February 2008
    Tags: Handset • Motorola • Division • Stephen Lawson • Mobile Devices • Spin

Latest Features

  • Proxim plans to buck the standards

    A double edged sword.Sometime in the long Proxim saga [Symbol lawsuit, entering WiMax, bankruptcy and sale to Moseley, snatched by Terabeam] the company said it was betting on municipal Wi-Fi. You're not going to find many deployments that have…
    01 September 2008
    Tags: Tier • Aspect • Wireless Lan • Product Line • Segments • Dominated

  • The WLAN wars are back - with a vengeance

    And such results are very hard to produce.When Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) announced the Mobius Axon wireless switch back in 2002, I wrote that the switched (or centralised) architecture would become the most influential in wireless…
    17 April 2008
    Tags: Motorola • Centralised • Decisions • Ap • Wlans • Aps

  • Does Motorola's 802.11n kit put it back in the Wi-Fi game?

    Symbol, the company Motorola acquired in 2006, was the first to sell a Wi-Fi switch, way back in 2002, but fashions are fickle. It's worth mentioning that, features like these, including mesh and 3G were promised by Symbol in May 2006, before…
    15 March 2008
    Tags: Motorola • Access Points • Aruba • Mesh • Campus • Pci

  • 802.11n access points on the starting blocks

    The next leading player is Aruba with something like 9.5 percent, followed by Motorola, whose Symbol division launched the Wi-Fi controller sector, established it in its home markets of retail and warehousing, and has been losing market share ever…
    26 December 2007
    Tags: Silicon • Market Share • Differences • Aruba • Trapeze • Aps

  • Wiping out Wi-Fi's original sin

    Wireless LAN switches, from Trapeze, Motorola/Symbol, Aruba, Cisco and others, use a set of wireless LAN access points to cover a building. Everyone who makes a Wi-Fi architecture based on cell-planning is a transgressor, according to Gideon Rottem…
    24 October 2007
    Tags: Peter Judge • Cell • Channels • Interference • Band • Aps

  • The changing world of Wi-Fi for small businesses

    Symbol (now part of Motorola) has the WS2000 branch office switch that can manage six access points attached to its Ethernet ports, four of which have power over Ethernet. It's a mature product, launched in 2004, and Symbol's competitors tell us…
    02 October 2007
    Tags: Access Point • Peter Judge • Band • Aruba • Trapeze • Aps

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  • Case Study: Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi

    Aerohive also has relationships with Vocera, Aeroscout and Philips for the applications which Barts is using, he adds.Surprisingly, the Aerohive network was pitched by Hewlett-Packard, which has its own centralised Wi-Fi switch, based on…
    19 May 2008
    Tags: Controllers • Location • Centralised • Buildings • Locations • London

  • Case Study: Getting to grips with UK's biggest WLAN

    There, and elsewhere in BAA's estate, Aruba kit will be put in to replace existing systems from Symbol (now part of Motorola).digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Inside_the_giant_Wireless_LAN_at_Heathrow_s_Terminal_5'; Case Study: Getting to…
    17 March 2008
    Tags: Medium • Aruba • Locations • Pdas • Terminal • Aps

  • Case Study: Users get creative with wireless

    It's about applications.TransAlta, is deploying WLANs at several generating plants to let field maintenance workers outfitted with Symbol rugged handhelds link with backend equipment and repair databases, ordering systems, and a new mobile…
    09 August 2005
    Tags: Wired • Cellular • Buildings • Field • Ships • Mounted

  • Case Study: Blending Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for a tracking system

    The latest version is also by Symbol, while the first Diads were made to order by Motorola. Specially designed in partnership with Symbol, the system is developed from existing wearable scanners , which have a wired connection.A wireless scanner…
    02 July 2004
    Tags: Peter Judge • Tracking • Rfid • Scan • Ups • Drivers

Reviews

  • Motorola MC35 durable phone

    The MC35 comes from Symbol - a past master in completely ruggedised handhelds (see this video of an MC9000 being mistreated for instance) that had already launched the MC50, a less heavy-duty PDA aimed at staff whose reliability demands were…
    12 September 2007
    Tags: Peter Judge • Motorola • Screens • Battery Life • Outlook • Missed

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