Motorola opens applied research center 

Motorola, one of the world's largest cell phone companies, has announced
the opening of Motorola Labs India in Bangalore which will focus on applied
research in the areas of converged networks, autonomic networking, enterprise
applications and embedded systems and physical sciences. The center will
initially hire around 40 people and plans to grow this workforce by 20 percent
year on year.

"The center will focus on working on aspects that supports the idea of
seamless mobility. Our already existing R&D center, which was opened in
1991, does more develop-ment and design oriented work and employs close to 2000
people now," said Padmasree Warrior, executive VP and CTO of Motorola

The company elucidated that Motorola's R&D invest-ment in India has
grown to $85 million this year, up from approx $50 million in 2002. It plans to
grow this investment by 20 percent per year.

"We see the Indian centers as hubs for development of products specific
to emerging markets which includes India as well as APAC regions. By mid next
year in fact, we see products emerging which is made more specifically to fit
conditions in these markets," said Motorola India communi-cations and
corporate affairs head Amit Chaudhery.

Motorola claimed 15 per-cent to 20 percent market share in the mobile phone
segment in India. According to Warrior, nearly 40 percent of the software needed
for the phones are created in the Ban-galore development center.

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