Lucent And Alcatel Call Off Merger
News A decade later, AT&T chief executive Robert Allen decided to chop up the company even more, setting in play the eventual spinoff of Lucent Technologies, the owner of Bell Labs, and computer manufacturer NCR.
[May 30, 2001, 8:59]
How The SCO Lawsuit Will Affect Linux Adoption
News After developing Unix in the 60s and turning it into a broad commercial operating system in the 80s, AT&T's Bell Labs sold all of the rights (and, more important, all of its licensing contracts) to Novell in 1992.
[April 15, 2003, 9:37]
Lucent Radio Gets Dosh Injection
News Lucent will continue to hold a majority stake in the company and provide ongoing access to its Bell Labs research and development unit. Lucent Digital Radio, formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, is now a separate entity...
[August 25, 1999, 10:03]
The Transistor Turns 60
News Since the 1930s, Bell Labs had been looking to replace vacuum tubes with an electronic switch. This was the very first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in December 1947. Californian companies weren't the only ones poaching from Bell Labs.
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
