Bell Labs
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1925 as the research and development (R&D) branch of the Bell System. Until the early 1990s, Bell Labs was owned and supported by AT&#...
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Bell Laboratories Relay Computers
The Bell Laboratories relay computers were a series of computing machines built between 1939 and 1949. They were electromechanical, meaning that the actual computatio...
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Speech coding technology used in several Microsoft Corp. applications does not infringe on an Alcatel-Lucent SA patent, a federal judge decided Thursday.The summary judgment from a U.S. District Co...
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Internet access on "smart phones" and other mobile devices can be great, but it's often limited to what can be found in "walled gardens" of channels selected by the wireless carriers.And typing sea...
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President Bush awarded 30 science and technology medals Friday for breakthroughs in such fields as astrophysics, laser technology, climatology and tissue engineering.The National Science Foundation...
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President Bush awarded 30 science and technology medals Friday for breakthroughs in such fields as astrophysics, laser technology, climatology and tissue engineering.The National Science Foundation...
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Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.The Redmo...
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If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy. A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.As ...
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Liberty Media Corp.'s John Malone, a longtime business partner of Barry Diller, took action Monday to oust Diller from the board of the IAC/InterActiveCorp Internet conglomerate.The move is the lat...
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IAC chairman Barry Diller shot back Tuesday at Liberty Media Corp. CEO John Malone, saying it was "preposterous" that Malone's lawyers have filed court papers to remove him from the board in an eff...
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Thursday's $1.52 billion jury verdict against Microsoft over infringement of MP3 patents raises serious questions about the state of patent law today, analysts say.Microsoft MSFT claims it paid a $...
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Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are...
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Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories Relay Computers
Microsoft wins round with Alcatel-Lucent
