Stories about: Lucent Technologies

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.

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).

WiMax equipment and component makers this week announced steady progress on fixed wireless broadband products but looked eagerly to a future mobile WiMax as industry participants gathered at the Wireless Communications Alliance's WCA International Symposium & Business Expo in San Jose, California.

The 3G Partnership Project - a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators - has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100Mbps.

InPhase Technologies Inc. is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry holographic drive, which the company expects to begin shipping next year. The drive will be demonstrated at the 2005 Storage Visions conference, being held in Las Vegas this week.

Voice over IP (VOIP) and open source technology hold great promise for cost savings, but also threaten traditional ways of doing business. Rather than shy away from the challenges that these disruptive technologies represent, Bell Laboratories, the renowned R&D (research and development) arm of Lucent Technologies Inc. in Murray Hill, New Jersey, is attempting to bring them into the mainstream.

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday signaled its commitment to the Intel processor architecture and carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications infrastructure, announcing it will introduce a blade server based on those specifications as part of a new hardware, software and services strategy.