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HP May Lose the Head of Its Personal Systems Group (PSG), Todd Bradley, to Motorola

By: Maureen O'Gara

Jun. 30, 2008 02:00 PM

HP may lose the head of its Personal Systems Group (PSG), Todd Bradley, to Motorola.

He’s on Moto’s list of two candidates to run its cell phone operation, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Everybody’s still in denial because negotiations are at the sensitive stage, the paper said. However, after the story ran Bradley sent an e-mail to his staff saying he was happy where he was.

Bradley was CEO of palmOne credited with creating the smartphone before he joined HP in 2005, when its now-winning PC operation was losing money and the company was under pressure to spin it off.

Motorola, which invented the mobile phone, has been trying to recover from not having a successor to the popular RAZR, and plans to spin out the cell phone unit, now $1.6 billion in the hole, next year. Motorola like Yahoo has Carl Icahn nipping at its heels.

PSG currently accounts for $28 billion a year in HP revenues from PCs, mobile devices, technical workstations, digital TVs, personal storage solutions and Internet services.

Published Jun. 30, 2008— Reads 3,496
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About Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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