Neowin News Feed for: Alcatel-lucent

Nokia plans to slash a third of jobs at Alcatel-Lucent

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:20:01 +0000

Nokia has confirmed plans to cut a third of the workforce at its subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent. It comes just months after it announced that it would need to cut costs by a huge €500 million. Read more...

Nokia completes 15.6 billion euro acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:46:01 +0000

Nokia has announced that French regulators have approved the company's offer of 15.6 billion euros to acquire Alcatel-Lucent and will begin the merger starting January 14th. Read more...

Verizon partners with other companies for '5G' development in U.S.

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 20:18:01 +0000

Along with a few partnering companies, Verizon is working on the next generation of radio technology that will bring about the 5G standard to the U.S., with field testing slated for 2016. Read more...

European Commission approves Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

Justin Luna — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:02:01 +0000

The European Commission has approved Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, a wireless technologies company. It is one of the company's latest milestones, after transitioning to a telecoms company. Read more...

Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion; makes big play for 5G

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:40:01 +0000

Nokia has announced publicly that it is buying Alcatel-Lucent, a wireless technologies company. The new consolidated business will put the Finnish manufacturer at the forefront of 5G tech in Europe. Read more...

BT claims to have achieved 'real world' broadband speeds of up to 1.4 Tbps

John Callaham — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:23:57 +0000

BT has announced that it has used a new "flexible grid' infrastructure" on an existing core fiber connection in London to achieve "real world" broadband speeds of up to 1.4 Tbps. Read more...

Alcatel reveals new 'One Touch with Windows Phone'...7.8 [Update: specs]

Andy Weir — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:57:05 +0000

A new manufacturer is joining the Windows Phone ecosystem! But don't get too excited... Alcatel's new 'One Touch with WP' is a handsome device, but it'll be shipping with Windows Phone 7.8. Read more...

Microsoft's $358 million damage award overturned

Brad Sams — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:47:20 +0000

A US court of appeals has overturned a judgment in a patent dispute case of Alcatel-Lucent vs. Microsoft. The case, based around a patent for entering information into the calendar on Microsoft Outlook, originally... Read more...

Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:05:33 +0000

On Thursday in San Diego, U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster dismissed all of Alcatel-Lucent's patent claims against Microsoft Corporation over technology that converts speech into text, meaning that the jury trial set to begin on... Read more...