Stories about: Lucent

In the 19th century, British mathematician Charles Babbage invented the "difference engine," a mechanical computer that had an enormously complex arrangement of levers, ratchets and gears. Had this prototypical chunk of steampunk machinery ever been completely built, it would have weighed several tons.

Data will flow more freely as mobile communications networks move towards a "flat IP" model, but developers and operators will face new security challenges, according to engineers gathered at the Freescale Technology Forum in Paris.

Digium, whose open source Asterisk IP PBX spawned a host of start-ups that commercialise the software, has bought up one of them because it has a better user interface than Digium's.

The most significant development in the next major release of MySQL AB's open-source database, MySQL 6.0, will be the inclusion of the vendor's homegrown Falcon storage engine, according to company CEO Marten Mickos.

The Franconia region around Nuremberg, Germany, hopes to establish Europe's first "Linux Valley" with the launch of a new business campus focused on open source innovation.

Lucent Technologies has filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement over technology used in its Xbox 360 game console.

New CTO Jeffrey Jaffe needs to unify the disparate Suse and Ximian open source teams

Novell has appointed former IBM veteran Jeffrey Jaffe as the company's new chief technology officer (CTO). Jaffe, most recently president at Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Laboratories, will head up Novell's technology direction and will lead the company's product business units, according to a Novell announcement Tuesday.

Juniper's Infranet Initiative has been dissolved, replaced by another council staffed and funded by its members, including Cisco and Alcatel, that seeks to develop a business-friendly IP service infrastructure.

Telephony has not been a big theme traditionally at the Cebit trade show -- until now. Interest is surging as voice evolves into one of many software applications that businesses and consumers can now run on their office or home IP (Internet protocol) networks.

Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that its board of directors has dismissed Carly Fiorina as the company's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO).