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March 26, 2008

Motorola's PR Nightmare

A Motorola insider forwards a letter to TechCrunch, telling all about the fall of the wireless tech icon. Passages like this must be giving Moto's PR people, who declined to comment, fits:

Many close to Geoffrey believed Ed Zander worked him to death, putting the pressure of the fate of the company in his hands. [That was certainly the buzz around the industry at the time. -Ed.] I took his untimely death in 2005 very hard, and knew that the company would head downhill in the aftermath. On a personal note, Lynne, his wife blamed the company for his passing. She committed suicide soon after.

It cannot possibly help matters that the current CEO, Greg Brown, apparently doesn't use a computer and has his secretary print email to read and dictate responses.

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