Many readers will be too young to remember it, but Telcordia once was called "Bellcore," way back in the days after the breakup of the AT&T system, and designed to provide a similar function for the Regional Bell Operating Companies that Bell Laboratories traditionally had played for Western Electric and the old AT&T.
That function had changed over the years, of course. Bellcore was privatized in 1996, when it was sold to SAIC.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Ericsson to Acquire Telcordia
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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