NEW RULES — RESPECT ALL PEOPLE – SAME AS THE OLD RULE!! BUT, IF YOU ARE LINKEDIN…….. YOU'RE LOCKED OUT!!! FORGET THIS SITE FOR REAL NETWORKING!

I DELETED MY ACCOUNT, AND SO DID ALL MY FRIENDS AT MOTOROLA!!!

This site is the biggest scam , on the Internet. They are NOT a friendly Professional business site. To network, means to meet new people in your related Industry. They don't advertise the fact that the first time you send an email to add a contact, that person can send the "don't know you" response, and then with very few,,like 3..they lock your account down, to have to "know everyone you send an add to. Kind of defeats the idea, of BUSINESS NETWORKING! I NEVER SPAM! To be a treated like one was a real insult. No one is home in customer service, auto-responses only. It's just a trick, to get you to upgrade, more money! AND, they also have a very low classed- environment, [ MONEY DOESN'T BUY CLASS] That uses the dreaded" don't know you response" to dishonestly, eliminate the competition. They send that response, to purposely , use linkedin's stupid "rule" to keep you from being on the site to network, because they know, how easy it is to get your site locked. I was told, if you pay, we will fix it, $200 per month later…still can't use my account, and they kept my money. It's not a proper business model for any professional. What I found there was the pre-school bullies,,, all grown up, BUT much more egotistical. Are you good enough to join our group of pathetic losers??? No, Thankfully I guess not. I will be blogging about this much hyped, poor business site, EVERYWHERE!! To save good people from this very bad experience. Don't believe the hype of this poorly run site. First of all,,,does everyone in the World "know each other"?? Most of all, read your own advertisements!!! It doesn't say "network site for only people who know each other" or, we will keep your money, and lockdown your networking abilities if 3 people say "they don't" know you! False advertising, insulting to real professionals, who think it's a real networking site. No warning til after they take your money, about the hidden-unwritten rules. Also, the REAL spammers, that PAID the highest monthly rate..still networking, NOT CLOSED DOWN! my average, 80 contacts knew me, only 3 said they didn't. So 3 out of 80!!! I'm Definitely NOT a spammer. Someone needs to put these guys out of business. SOON…. This situation is so common, that there is a group against that technique on their site called "toplinked" and, they have better respectful members. The main thing was the total ruthless attitude of the linkedin members, and lack of respect by the managers and owners of this site. I paid for them to insult me.

WHY, Would I network with a website? to network people

I already know??? that's silly!!!

NO REAL MANAGEMENT,

NO CUSTOMER SERVICE AT ALL. -

ALL AUTO-RESPONSE- NO RESPECT!!!

Have you seen ads for the Ford / Microsoft Sync multimedia interface? That was Motorola's hardware — until they sold it to Continental, who is turning a nice profit from this new hit technology with significant upside.

By the way, Continental is the one who really streamlined the Motorola automotive business.

The real reason Motorola got out of this business is because lack of quality resulted in frequent trips to Detroit to beg forgiveness. Zander could not bear that type of scrutiny, so he jettisoned the business rather than emphasizing improved quality and manufacturing fundamentals.

Sad, because the Automotive business was solid and relied upon stable process technologies — unlike the bleeding edge component designs that often-times result in unstable manufacturing yields.

As a former, 12-year Motorola knew about platforms. But they couldn't get it done. Not in an environment focused more on warring tribes, in-fighting, empire building, empire protecting, back-stabbing and horrendous middle and upper management.

When Motorola had no competition, they were king. During this run of success, mediocre (or worse) employees were shuttled up the management ladder. It was this group of managament that had no clue how to run a business when competition got tough. Or how to operate; or, how to let people innovate. Or, how to create an evironment where employees cared about the products and each other–and reward them for it.

As more and more competition entered the marketplace, the downward spiral continued.

The success with the Razr was sheer luck–nothing more. Big deal, the phone was thin, yet still with a horrible User Interface. Consumer fads are finicky. When the fad wore off, MOT had nothing else. Innovation is, and has been, dead for years. The majority of the good engineers have left the company on their own or have been laid off. What's left is a steaming pile of over-paid employees that crave the good ol' days of the late 80s and early 90s, when there was no competition. When ugly, black phones–still with horrible user interfaces–would be gobbled up by the marketplace. Ah, those were the days.

I expect the Mobile Devices spin-off to lead to a depressed stock price of that entity, one that will be purchased–like Iridium–for pennies on the dollar.

From Jon Fortt: To be fair, he streamlined it and then sold it.

Management who thinks they are ahead of the curve area so far behind it that it would take years for them to catch up to the tail end! If splitting the company up is the right thing to do then I agree with you Mr. Fortt…what will it do during the next down turn when there are no more pieces to sell off!

Management has made it what it is and they need to put a bit more faith in its people (not middle management) and let some of those voices be heard.

Salvaging the company is possible if the right people are put in charge, and action is taken wihtout the red tape that's been involved the past few years. It would also help to infuse some funding into the R&D side of the house and get some creative thinkers like Apple has into this company.

What the heck is a "3G board member"? This shows short-sightedness on his part. As soon as 3G is mainstream (which it is in much of the world), it is time to start looking forward to future technologies like 4G, converged devices.

As for the other business profitability, the "Networks" business is a dog and needs to go. It is capital equipment in a market with too much capacity. WiMax may be a short-term savior (increasing world-wide spend), but it is just a short fix. The market needs consolidation, and if I were MOT, I would find the quickest way out of that business so I could concentrate on profitable businesses (Cable, Government, ex-Symbol, etc.)

From Jon Fortt: I don't think I trashed it at all. I said it's holding its own while the handset division loses money, and that Brown helped streamline the business. I do point out, however, that going head-to-head with Cisco and Apple will be no picnic.

The company's major challenge is not to apportion the cash and the debt, but rather to apportion the challenge of the instant-gratification wing of Wall Street to the volatile cell market and the long-term-interested investors to the steady, progressive and always first-place positioning in its market that has been Motorola's stance since the days of Paul and Bob Galvin.