"Sidgmore will have to give out retention bonuses that in some cases could be in the $2 million to $3 million range, and he doesn't have the cash to do it," said Alan Neely, global leader of Korn/Ferry International's communications and convergence recruiting practice in Atlanta.
The idea capitalises on a growing trend in wireless communications – the convergence between mobile telephony and wi-fi internet access, once built for good reason to very different specifications.
CONVERGENCE COMMUNICATIONS, Salt Lake City, named Douglas K. Jacobs chief executive, succeeding Lance D'Ambrosio, who remains chairman.
And the potential obstacles are myriad, because although Internet phone service represents a technological convergence of communications and computers, the regulatory world remains neatly divided: different rules apply to phones, cable, wireless services and data transmission.
But it is difficult to imagine Motorola selling off its handset business, at least until Mr Zander has had a go at fixing it.The vision thingSo the most likely course is somewhere between the two: expect Motorola to drop some product lines, improve efficiency and attempt, Samsung-like, to capitalise on the convergence between communications and entertainment.
Most of the problems I have recently taken on stem from the revolutionary convergence of communications and computing, of which the World Wide Web is the best example.
If the handoff latency (HL) is long, then it disrupts communications or causes long convergence time in route optimization.
A distracting mini-mania about convergence of communications and computing spurred the newly born Baby Bells to lavish spending on providing storefront "one-stop shopping" for business PCs and phone services.
Gigi B. Sohn is the President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit organization that addresses the public's stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law.
The digitization of data, voice, video, and communications is leading a consumer product convergence, and this convergence has given rise to the need for networked appliances.
But Mr. Rheingold argues that the convergence of wireless communications technologies and widely distributed networks allow swarming on a scale that has never existed before.
