MIRALab was founded in 1989 by Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. She chairs around 30 researchers coming from as many different fields as Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Telecommunications, Architecture, Fashion Design, Cognitive Science, Haptics, Augmented Reality,
In the high-speed telecommunications industry, “convergence” means the merging of the traditional voice and data networks into one shared infrastructure. The value of this convergence is in efficiency and cost savings.
Well, it seems not everything in research is fun
Technology that inserts mistakes in an pre-recorded phone call is being developed to reduce stress in outbound research.
A blog explaining how to make a telemarketers job worse then it is, along with how to get your name taken out of their databases.
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AT&T has announced plans to pay its shareholders a special one-time dividend of $1.30 a share as soon as its merger with SBC Communications is finalized, which could happen as early as next Friday.
Less than two weeks after Telus workers rejected their employer’s contract proposal, a revised offer has been proposed by the company.
The nation’s biggest telecommunications provider, Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (BCE) has announced a 13% decline in revenue from long distance phone service during the third quarter of 2005.
The world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, is about to launch a new line of multimedia handsets that clearly aim to combine communication with information technology, and consumer electronics with broadcasting.
SIRIUS Satellite Radio has announced that they are hiring telecommunications industry veteran, Paul Blalock to be their new Senior Vice President of Investor Relations.
Unionized workers have voted by a razor thin 50.3% to 49.7% margin to reject the proposed five-year contract that had already been endorsed by the union’s own bargaining committee.
The Wall Street Journal has recently reported that Ericsson is planning to buy out telecom equipment rival, Marconi Corp at a cost of $2.1 billion.
A number of phone companies from around the world have recently taken the drastic step of blocking VoIP traffic from being transferred over their lines.
The Telecommunications Workers Union has, at long last, come to a contract agreement with their employer, Telus.
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