Schaumberg, Ill. - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced plans on Wednesday to split into two publicly-traded companies next year, one for its mobile device business and another for its broadband and mobility solutions. "Creating two industry-leading companies will provide improved flexibility, more tailored capital structures, and increased management focus - as well as more targeted investment opportunities for our shareholders," said Greg Brown, Motorola's president and CEO.

Tokyo - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has launched an investigation into potential patent infringements of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Blu-ray Disc players and the products of some 30 other companies, based on a complaint from a Columbia University professor, Reuters reported.

New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV provider, will this week finally begin offering TiVo's (NASD: TIVO) digital video recorder interface to subscribers, initially in the Boston area, USA Today reports. The deployment is the first to utilize new Tru2way technology, which allows greater interoperability between consumer electronics and cable systems, and will feature TiVo's interface on Motorola-made set-top boxes. The offering will not include TiVo features like access to media on home computers, or transfer of recorded shows to laptops or mobile devices. Comcast told USA Today that it plans to roll out to additional markets later this year; its partnership with TiVo runs through 2014.

Singapore - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced on Monday that it will acquire Soundbuzz, a provider of online and mobile music services in Asia. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

Horsham, Pa. - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) on Thursday introduced the Motorola Mobile TV DH01, a portable media player capable of receiving live and on-demand TV programming. The device is smaller than a paperback book, sports a 4.3-inch screen, and will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month.

Sunnyvale, Calif. -Wireless device giant Motorola said on Thursday that it will acquire Sunnyvale-based Modulus Video, a developer of MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) compression systems used in the delivery of video content.

Los Angeles - Napster has partnered with Motorola to offer its on-demand music subscription service across Motorola's entire line of phones that support such services. The companies will develop promotions for North America, the U.K. and Germany that include a free month of Napster To Go, and plan to explore offering bundled music at retail.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Wireless developer Motorola plans next week to introduce a new 3G handset capable of displaying full-motion video and feature-length films stored on removable Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, Reuters reported. Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced the device at the Software 2007 conference on Wednesday, saying it would first be distributed in Europe, where 3G networks are more pervasive. The company did not name its movie memory card partner.

New York - Motorola has indefinitely delayed the release of its iRadio service, which had been in beta testing for over a year and was touted as the company's mobile radio solution, Billboard.biz reported.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Motorola on Tuesday announced the launch of the Motodev Game Developer Challenge, which will award two developers of mobile games publishing deals with I-play. Submissions of Java- and Windows Mobile-based games will be accepted through Aug. 10. A panel of judges from Motorola, I-play and other contest marketing allies will evaluate entries based on uniqueness, fun factor, design, operation and innovation in visual arts and audio.

Los Angeles - Motorola announced on Friday that it will debut its new MOTORIZR Z3 mobile phone at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, when it presents each of the top 25 nominees in the directing and four acting categories with the phone. The handsets will be housed in custom made boxes, and will come pre-loaded with 10 new songs from emerging artists.

Newbury, England - A group of big names in the wireless industry, including Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, have come together to form the LiMo Foundation, a non-profit that will work to jointly develop a Linux-based mobile platform.

Las Vegas - Motorola has signed an agreement with major record label Warner Music Group that will result in the creation of digital products, marketing campaigns and strategic planning across multiple devices. Under the deal, Motorola will get exclusive content like pre-loaded tracks, over-the-air songs, ringtones, ringback tones and mobile music videos. For example, the MOTO Experience Pack, expected in the second half of 2007, will combine several music-based products from a Warner artist in a single file downloaded to a user's phone.