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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has disclosed that she holds stock valued at up to $15,000 in Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Alcatel SA), a company with extensive investments in Iran and Sudan — nations that sponsor terrorism. The disclosure of Pelosi’s holdings comes at the same time that legislation is making its way through the California legislature barring state pension fund managers from investing in companies, like Alcatel-Lucent, that do business with "terror-friendly" nations. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrives to speak at the 2007 "Take Back America" conference in Washington June 20, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) According...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp infringed on audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The report said that Alcatel-Lucent had accused the world's biggest software maker of infringing on patents related to standards used for playing computer music files.

How to Install an Internal Modem on system Installing an internal modem is not an easy task. You have to open the computer to install modem cards. Given steps applies to all computer system. Shut down the computer and disconnect all peripheral devices from the computer, then remove the computer's cover. Find a slot that matches the pins. PCI modems have fewer pins and fit into a smaller slot than ISA modems. Put new modem into that slot if it will physically fit. First unscrew the metal plate on the slot holder on the back panel, and insert the modem...

PARIS (AFP) - Shareholders in French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel and US group Lucent approved a merger of the two companies to create a giant valued at 21.5 billion euros (27 billion dollars). The backing came during special general assemblies held by Lucent shareholders in Wilmington, Delaware and Alcatel shareholders in Paris. Lucent Technologies chairwoman and chief executive, Patricia Russo, who is to be chief executive in the combined entity, said the merger would create a strong global player. "As we have said from the start, the primary driver of this combination is to create long-term value for shareowners, customers,...

I posted recently about the recent loss of one of America's premier telecom infrastructure companies to the French - the Alcatel/Lucent merger. Not only is this merger harmful to our economy and American jobs, but it poses a national security risk. France is no friend of America and borders on being a threat to this country. This merger poses a risk that is just as great as the recent attempt to sell port operations to the Arab Emirates. Lucent has a Bell Labs division that does super sensitive work for our government and military. To placate concerns over American secret...

The recent announcement of the merger of Lucent and Alcatel, two telecommunications titans, has been heralded in financial circles as a positive development. However, there is a little-known aspect of Alcatel's business that should make Americans uncomfortable with this new arrangement. Alcatel does a considerable amount of business with countries on our State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring nations, including Iran and Sudan. Worst of all, the services and products that Alcatel provides to Iran can, at least indirectly, help that nation's military capability. Among its activities in Iran that have relevance to Tehran's military and terrorism-related activities are contracts signed...

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 13F Form 13F COVER PAGE Report for the Calendar Year or Quarter Ended: September 30, 2005 ------------------ Check here if Amendment [ ]; Amendment Number: -------------------- This Amendment (Check only one.): [ ] is a restatement. [ ] adds new holdings entries. Institutional Investment Manager Filing this Report: Name: Soros Fund Management LLC Address: 888 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10106 Form 13F File Number: 028-06420 The institutional investment manager filing this report and the person by whom it is signed hereby represent that the person signing the report...

Newly released documents from the Bush administration show that a former member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle has resurfaced inside the new Iraqi government, bringing charges of corruption, bribery and bid-rigging. As a result, millions of U.S. aid dollars and billions in Iraqi government funds have disappeared in an ongoing scandal that is poised to engulf Baghdad and Washington. Worse still, a leading candidate for the top elected post in Iraq has also been implicated in the report as having taken "payoffs" in order to rig a major government cell phone contract. According to a May 2004 U.S. Defense Department...

BEIJING — Chinese authorities will investigate Lucent Technologies and other foreign telecom equipment makers to see if graft was involved in multibillion-dollar deals in China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The Lucent investigation could open lines to information on corruption throughout China's telecom industry, Xinhua said. (Kyodo News)

For the second time in a year, telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. is reducing benefits promised to thousands of its retirees. The Murray Hill-based company, which reported billions of dollars in losses during the telecommunications industry slump, notified employees by letter it will no longer provide free health insurance for dependents of management workers who retired on or after March 1, 1990, at a salary of $65,000 or more. Instead, those dependents will have to pay their own premiums. Last September, Lucent announced identical cuts for managers who had retired during the same period but had a base salary...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WAYNE, N.J. — Lucent Technologies is shaking up the top management of its Chinese operations. In a filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday (April 6), the Murray Hill, N.J.,-based telecom equipment vendor said it has terminated the president, chief operating officer, a marketing executive and a finance manager in its China operations. Lucent has been under scrutiny by the SEC and U.S. Justice Department for potential violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in Saudi Arabia. While investigating potential FCPA problems, Lucent found "incidents and internal...

China firms buy $2.3B worth of U.S. high technology Motorola and Lucent win large telecommunications deals at trade seminar Major players in China's IT and telecommunication industries signed deals Tuesday to buy equipment from U.S. vendors worth a total of around $2.3 billion, the companies said. The deals were signed at a seminar on telecommunications and IT trade in Washington. Motorola Inc. won two large mobile telephony deals: a $556 million contract with China United Telecommunication Corp. (China Unicom) to expand its CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile networks in Beijing and 12 other provinces; and a $510 million contract...

Prominent attorneys to face off as $677M trial over Republic of Kazhakstan oil field gets messyJury selection kicked off this week in a $677 million case filed by Houston-based Anglo-Dutch Petroleum International Inc. against Halliburton Co. and several other defendants that will bring two heavyweight attorneys head to head over the next few weeks. The case, first filed in 2000, centers around the development of an oil field in the Republic of Kazhakstan, a central Asian country sandwiched between Russia to the north and China to the southeast. The suit alleges that Anglo-Dutch was undermined by Houston-based Halliburton and several...

Companies Rated on Their GLBT Policies Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Twenty-one companies received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign for their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers, almost doubling the number of companies with the same distinction last year. "What we see this year is improvement in every category measured, from written nondiscrimination policies to domestic partner health insurance benefits and beyond. Corporate America continues to be a leader in the quest for GLBT civil rights," says HRC Education Director Kim I. Mills, who oversees HRC WorkNet, the organization's workplace project. "The bottom...

US targets Lucent Technologies in Saudi bribery probe Two US federal agencies have launched an investigation into the business activities of telecom developer Lucent Technologies in Saudi Arabia. The US-based company has been accused of bribing a Saudi official with offerings valued at $15 million in exchange for business opportunities with the Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC). The company’s possible violation of US bribery laws were addressed in a civil lawsuit filed by the National Group for Communications and Computers, a US-based provider of internet services in the Kingdom. The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice...

     Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Lucent Technologies Inc., the largestU.S. telephone-equipment maker, won favorable treatment from SaudiArabia's telecommunication agency by paying more than $15 millionin bribes to the agency's minister, a lawsuit claims.     The National Group of Communications and Computers Ltd., aSaudi-based company, says Lucent paid the money to Ali Al-Johani,whose ministry oversaw the Saudi-run phone system. National Group,now known as Silki-La-Silki National Telecom Ltd., sued in U.S.District Court in Manhattan.     In return for the alleged bribes, Al-Johani directed SaudiTelecommun Co. to take actions that favored Lucent, the suit says.Lucent, based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, was allowed to...

Saudi Telecom Firm Accuses Lucent of Bribery NEW YORK -- A Saudi telecommunications company filed a lawsuit accusing Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU - News) of bribing a Saudi official with money, gifts and free use of private jets to make business decisions that were favorable to Lucent. Lucent and a Swiss firm, ACEC S.A., paid more than $15 million in bribes between 1995 and 2002 to Ali Al-Johani, who served as minister of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Post Telephone & Telegraph, according to the suit, filed late Friday in Manhattan federal court. In exchange for the bribes, Mr. Al-Johani allegedly...

My Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 633 Mghz (clock speed) CPU had a Lucent Winmodem which the lightning apparently sent to modem heaven (or hell...depending upon your point of view). Using the childrens' old, slow computer I am now trying to seek technical assistance from a smarter-than-the-tech-support Free Republic member who would be gracious enough to either use the e-mail or this thread to answer the following question(s): What type of modem plug-in (bus?) does the HP Pavilion (model 6735) have and can another modem besides a Lucent Winmodem be used with this computer? Also, what does the term "PCI" refer to? I...

BERLIN -- German soldiers suffering from cancer that they blame on radiation from radar equipment filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a U.S. court seeking damages from U.S.-based manufacturers, their lawyers said. [...]

Three people are charged with a plot to steal secrets from Lucent and sell them to a Chinese telecommunications provider A federal grand jury on Thursday handed up new charges against two former Lucent Technologies scientists and a third man, the alleged mastermind of a plot to steal secrets from Lucent to sell to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications provider, authorities said. Xu Kai, 33, and Lin Hai, 30, former high-level scientists for Lucent, and Cheng Yong-Qing, 37, are set to be arraigned on Monday on an additional 14 counts of possessing trade secrets and nine counts of wire fraud. The...