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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — Motorola Mobility, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), today announced that it has acquired Zecter, Inc., a leading start-up with synchronization and streaming technologies for on-demand digital media consumption. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Zecter's solutions connect users to their content seamlessly and instantaneously, giving them simple, on-the-go access to music, video, photos and documents from their smartphones, tablets, PCs and web-portals. Zecter currently has two products commercially available: ZumoDrive, for cloud-based content sync, access and sharing; and ZumoCast, for personal media streaming to any device. Both products use innovative virtual file system technologies to make any personal content instantly available even if it is not stored locally.
Zecter will further enhance Motorola Mobility's mobile content experience and MOTOBLUR service offering by enabling consumers to enjoy their digital content across their mobile devices, wherever they are. Motorola Mobility will integrate Zecter's wireless syncing, desktop integration, video transcoding and thin-file retrieval technologies across its device and MOTOBLUR offerings to provide consumers with real-time access to their content.
“Consumers want seamless access to their content and media from wherever they are, while content providers want to ensure that content remains protected and secure,” said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services, Motorola Mobility. “We believe that Zecter enables that seamless experience with the necessary security measures, and we are delighted to be able to work with this team.”
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Hi Barbara, I have mixed feelings too about the electronics industry going into 2011. I am curious to hear the news coming out of the CES event in Vegas in early January. In the meantime, my 2011 outlook remains cautiously optimistic.
I think China will continue to play a major role in the EMS industry in 2011. Given the state of their economy, I reckon they will maintain the same growth rate, if not achieve a higher one.
China is coming as dominating country in EMS industry for the past two years. Now it's really the time for U.S to plan and implement to become acquire No. 1 position. U.S government is also supporting the industries and investors to win race.
Within EMS chain, one step is products' assembly. New Adventure Reasearch Corportation reported so far the direct labor hourly rate (referring to Electronic Market) is about
-10$US in Central Europe,
-6 $US in Western Europe,
-3$US in Eeastern Europe
-1$US in China.
Possible scenario for “unanswered question in 2011” is products' assembly is going to move in Eastern Europe and there several countries are encouraging and supporting this by foreign agency. An example is “Invest in Macedonia”.
Have you heard similar stories too?
I dont know how much importance we can attach to the forecasts from EMS as against those of the semiconductor vendors. EMS have a simples model of operation, stable revenue streams and semicon generally have more concerns about how the market will behave. I believe the signals coming out of EMS should always be viewed with the semiconductor reports in perspective.