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...traditional cellular networks - a shift that has left the carriers scrambling for a strategy as they increasingly face the prospect of competing head-on with their long-term collaborators, the handsetmakers. At stake? Potentially nothing less than the structure of the $600 billion worldwide mobile industry. Motorola ceo Ed Zander says: "There's going to be a lot of turmoil in the next couple of years...
...Boston, two of Boston’s premier classical music groups will come to you. This Sunday, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Chamber Music Society will both perform in Sanders Theatre. Eighteen-year-old violinist Caitlin Tully will solo for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander, in an afternoon performance of Shostakovich’s “First Violin Concerto.” According to Tully’s website, Yehudi Menuhin, one of the foremost violinists of the 20th century, said of the performer at age 10 that “she plays with...
...Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, with a new live two-disc set, takes the stage just after midnight. T.T. the Bear’s Place. Tickets available at the door or through Ticketmaster. $10. (KF)Sunday, Nov. 20Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Rachmaninov Concert. The BPO, conducted by Benjamin Zander, performs Rachmaninov’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” featuring Gabriela Montero, and “Nielsen, Symphony No. 5.” Zander will give a pre-concert “behind the scenes” talk at 1:45 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
Some of that informality reveals the influence of Silicon Valley, where Zander spent more than 15 years at Sun Microsystems and then a private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...
...doesn't always work. At a new-products lab near the company's headquarters, Motorola engineers excitedly demonstrated a new device, the Ojo, which works as a regular mobile phone and then seamlessly docks into a videophone at home. Zander isn't satisfied. He's thrilled that it works but says the Ojo is too hard for the average consumer to install. "It's a product that wasn't thought through," he says. Still, he's happy that they're taking a swing. Like a summer at Steeplechase, innovation is worth the wait...