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Motorola Mobility LLC, marketed as Motorola, is an American consumer electronics manufacturer primarily producing smartphones and other mobile devices running Android. Headquartered at Merchandise Mart in Chicago , Illinois , it is a subsidiary of the Chinese technology company Lenovo .
Motorola was founded in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (at 847 West Harrison Street) [9] in 1928.. Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's new car radio, and created the name "Motorola" by linking "motor" (from motor car) with "ola" (from Victrola), which was also a popular ending for many companies at the time, e.g. Moviola, Crayola. [10]
This was in Melbourne in October 2007, while Linkin Park were touring Australia in support of Minutes to Midnight, with Chris Cornell as their opening act. That night, Chester jumped off the top ...
Bill Smith (Motorola engineer) William B. Smith, Jr. (1929 – 1993) was the "father of Six Sigma ". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Management (now known as the Carlson School of Management) but did not graduate.
From 1967 to 1973, during college, Galvin held part-time summer assignments at Motorola. From 1973 to 1983, he served full-time positions in sales, sales management, marketing management and mobile two-way radio product management, taking leave 1975–77 to attend graduate business school full-time.
Technical and further education. Technical and further education or simply TAFE (/ ˈteɪf /) is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses. Colloquially also known as "Tech".
On 9 December 1968, [13] the United States and Australia signed a treaty titled "Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America relating to the Establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility", [13] which was signed by Australia's Paul Hasluck and America's Edwin M. Cronk, detailing that a facility would be ...
Stephen John Sewell was born in 1953 into a working class, Catholic family in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2] He studied science at the University of Sydney, before deciding to become a playwright. [3]