Bell Laboratories continues to exist, as the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, but with the breakup of the Bell companies, it is now more closely focussed on projects that can be seen as having a short-term business payoff. | Bell Laboratories continues to exist, as the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, but with the breakup of the Bell companies, it is now more closely focussed on projects that can be seen as having a short-term business payoff. |