Stories about: Bell Laboratories

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    Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS 28/07/2009 01:27:00

    Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
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    US innovation: On the skids 23/10/2008 09:35:00

    It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the US in recent months as the election nears, markets churn and assets melt. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the newspaper mask a long-term problem that may shape the future of America more than John McCain's plan for Iraq, Barack Obama's health care ideas or Uncle Sam's heroic efforts to rescue the economy.
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    Celebrating the IC's 50th anniversary 15/09/2008 09:38:00

    The technology behind almost every electronics device in the world, the integrated circuit or IC, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday. Its enduring success is thanks in part to two "nice guys" who developed it, and their early efforts to convince an industry that at first reviled their idea.
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    History lesson: The origins of wiki, blog and other high-tech lingo 27/06/2008 10:08:00

    Though sometimes it's hard to pin down exactly who deserves the credit — or blame — here's a shot a some of the more familiar terms.
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    The origins of high-tech's made-up lingo 25/06/2008 08:38:29

    Technology we take for granted today was new not so long ago, and somebody had to name it. Though sometimes it's hard to pin down exactly who deserves credit -- or blame -- here's a shot a some of the more familiar ones.
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    The transistor in 1948 - stuck on page 46 02/01/2008 07:55:38

    It is over sixty years since the invention of the transistor, on December 16th, an event that must have happened in a room somewhere off the long, serious marble corridors of Bell Laboratories' famous Murray Hill facility in New Jersey.
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    Networking's greatest debates in LANS + WANS 30/10/2007 10:43:42

    A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.
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    Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet) 02/10/2007 06:00:11

    Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or, going way back to the 1800s, is it the Babbage Difference Engine?
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    The top network inventors of all time 03/07/2007 15:17:52

    Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.
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    1TB optical disks now in prospect 02/07/2007 10:17:49

    Manufacturers are being offered the world's highest capacity optical storage technology to license, reportedly, leap-frogging 300GB holographic disks and offering 1TB in a DVD-size disk. But the technology has not been commercialized and product could be three to five years away.
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    64 DVDs on a disc: holographic storage to ship 14/02/2007 09:56:00

    InPhase Technologies announced Monday it will start bulk shipments of the industry's first holographic disc drive this July in a format able to store 300GB of uncompressed data on a single platter. That capacity will expand to 1.6TB per disc within three years, the company said.
 
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