The long-awaited split of Motorola has finally been approved by the company’s board of directors. Motorola Mobility Holdings – the ‘mobile’ part of Motorola’s business – will separate from the rest of Motorola before the US stock market opens on 4th January 2011. The remaining part of Motorola will then change its name to Motorola Solutions.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.
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