Children differ, as any parent of two or more knows. Some babies sleep through the night, others are always awake; some are calm, others are fussy; some walk at an early age, others after a long wait. Scientists have proved that genes are responsible for these early differences. But people assume that as children get older and spend more time under their parents’ influence, the effect of genes declines. They are wrong.
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Motorola Co-chief Executive Sanjay Jha says the company is “completely committed to making [its] handset business work.” The question is: CAN the handset business be made to work? Judging from the company’s latest earnings, the answer would appear to be a categorical "no."
In September 2006, a three-minute video featuring a group of teenagers harassing a boy with Down Syndrome was posted to Google Video Italia. Notified of it presence, Google quickly removed the video. But not quickly enough. The clip was viewed some 12,000 times before it was pulled. Enough times to inspire a two-year investigation and now, the trial of four Google executives on criminal charges of defamation and breach of privacy. Talk about blaming the tool for the way it is used....
Investors already know Motorola has a grim future. This morning they found out just how grim it’s to be. The company today posted a $3.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter, suspended its dividend and projected further losses in the first three months of 2009. Worse, it said phone shipments in its cellphone division--crucial to turnaround plans--fell by half last quarter. 
SanDisk CEO Eli Harari says the company is “very disappointed” with its fourth-quarter bottom-line results, which doesn’t even begin to describe the way the company’s investors must be feeling right now. They had expected the flash memory card maker to report a fourth-quarter net loss of 60 cents a share on revenue of $766.7 million. Instead, it reported an adjusted net loss of $1.65 a share. 
