[Incorrigible]

What's more dangerous, Arabs running operations at our ports or French with access to future defense developments?

[Libertina]

Send Sandy Burglar over. He'll keep a trouser leg...er eye on our secrets! ;)

[sageb1]

""The U.S. government will have more control over the flow of information in and out of this entity than it has over the flow of information into other so-called American entities," Andrews said. "I think this is an unprecedented level of control, where the U.S. government will have an ongoing window into the management of Bell Labs.""

Right.

[GSlob]

Who was the idiot to approve this merger? GWB?

[rockinqsranch]

...Or French on a Saudi Arab economic leash with access to future defense developments?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The French only need to know how to surrender, so they will be of no danger to us.

[endthematrix]

Just another consolidation of critical infrastructure within the grasp of foreigners...

[dayglored]

This is insane. Bell Labs is responsible for a HUGE number of America's technology innovations since 1920 (this is only a fraction of the things Bell Labs has invented or first-developed):

• Fax (1920)
• Movies with synchronized sound (1926)
• Television (first transmission, 1927)
• Radio astronomy (1931)
• Speech synthesizer (1937)
• Calculators (1940 and later)
• Photovoltaic (PV) cell (1940s)
• Scrambler for speech (1943)
• Transistor (1947)
• Teleprinter (1949)
• Microwave research (1950s)
• TransAtlantic cable (1956)
• Electronic music (1957)
• LED (1962)
• CO2 Laser (1964)
• Charge-coupled device (1969)
• UNIX (1970)
• C language (1970)
• Fibre optics (1976)
• 32-bit CPU (1980)
• Cellular phone (1980)
• Breakup of AT&T (1984)
• Wireless networking (1990)
• 56k modem (1991)
• Electron lithography (1996)
• Voice over IP (1998)
• Plastic transistors (2000)
• Increasing foreign involvement (2002-2006)
• Sold to French (2006)

We're selling this??? What are we, crazy?

Sadly, I think so...

[ThomasThomas]

The poodle was once a proud hunting dog.

Now doing for science what they did for poodles.

[El Gato]

I'm too old for this.. stuff. When I graduated from college, and for 20 years, at least, before, Bell Labs was the creme de la creme of US technology. Then came the breakup of the Bell system... by the government. Thanks a bunch you Clymers.

[XBob]

idiots - we're selling off the counry piece by piece

[Colorado Buckeye]

What's more dangerous, Arabs running operations at our ports or French with access to future defense developments?

This is what happens when you run massive trade deficits. The deficits are funded by borrowing money and selling assets. This time the sold assest happens to be Bell Labs.

The French are our good buddies; I'm sure they won't want to make money buy selling more of our technology to the Chinese.

[thinking]

Bell Labs sold!!!...the end is surely near...Bell Labs, have been the genesis, of great technology developments over the last 60 years, and now sold to the French....sorry state of affairs...