Smartphone mod into a walkie talkie

Southgate News brought this to my attention. How to convert a smartphone into a walkie-talkie without internal mods. A neat idea. Maybe this could be done using an amateur handheld?

See https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linc-the-smart-walkie-talkie-smartphone#/ .

Motorola for sale?

Is the end in sight for Motorola?

See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-06/motorola-solutions-said-to-explore-sale-of-87-year-old-company .

When I was at work (I retired 7 years ago) Motorola was our greatest rival. Since coming into existence in the early years of this century, my own company Sepura has been in profit every year. The demise of Motorola is a salutary lesson never to be complacent. How the mighty have fallen.

DMR products

My old company, Sepura, entered the Digital Mobile Radio market last year (as an addition to the TETRA products they already design and make) and are, as we speak, designing DMR products for sale in the near future. In recent days they've had a wake-up call from their major competitor Motorola in the form of two new DMR radios that set the benchmark. See http://www.motorola.com/Business/XU-EN/Product+Lines/MOTOTRBO/SL4000+Series/SL4000_SL4010. These look very attractive products and I am glad I no longer have the task of trying to beat them! Instead I can tinker with lightbeams and VLF.