Motorola Stirs Up Handset Business

Following news of Motorola's plans to split itself into two separate companies, today Motorola reorganized the structure of its internal cell phone units. From now on, hardware and software teams working on the same platform will work side by side in the same unit, rather than separately. Since there was a lot of overlap, Motorola combined its mid- to high-tier phones and multimedia phones into one unit. It also promoted certain executives and gave them more direct control of their units in an attempt to help Motorola develop products more quickly and respond better to customer input.