Articles tagged with: Bell Labs and Battery

Alcatel-Lucent launches new location-based mobile platform

Alcatel-Lucent has shown off a location based mobile advertising platform - with the catchy name of the 5130 Geographic Messaging Services Platform (GMSP). The company says that the 5130 GMSP leverages unique Bell Labs innovations to increase the accuracy and timeliness of location-based services. The platform overcomes two of the key challenges in the delivery of such services by using sophisticated techniques to reduce the capacity demands on mobile networks and the consumption of battery life in mobile devices.  more

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Today is the 35th Anniversary of the First Cellular Phone Call

Thirty-five years ago today (3rd April), the first ever public cellular phone call was made by Martin Cooper. Cooper, who invented the portable cell phone, placed that call on April 3, 1973 while he was the general manager of MotorolaÃ's Communications Systems Division. That first call, placed to CooperÃ's rival at AT&TÃ's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, was the beginning of a revolution that has changed the lives of three billion people worldwide. A cell phone call is a call to a person in contrast with wired phone calls that are to a place.  more

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