Category: Bell Labs

Unix at 50: How the OS that powers iOS and Android started from failure

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Richard Jensen for Ars Technica: Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the failure of an ambitious project that involved titans like Bell Labs, GE, and MIT. Largely the brainchild of…

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Alcatel-Lucent Sets World Record – 10 Gbps Over Copper Telephone Lines

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If you’ve heard any commercials for cable internet lately, you’d be lead to believe that traditional copper telephone lines are worthless.  Slow, painful, and outdated are only a few of the descriptions you’re likely to hear.  Bell Labs – the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent – apparently hasn’t been listening, as they’ve just set a new…

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