Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: AirTran Holdings, Alberto-Culver, Alcon, Allianz, Allied Irish Banks, AMR Corporation, Analog Devices, Aracruz Celulose, Aventine Renewable Energy, Bally Total Fitness, BJ's Wholesale Club, CertainTeed, China Netcom, Datapoint, Del Monte Foods, DQE, Dynegy, El Paso Corp., Energias de Portugal, Energy Future Holdings, GateHouse Media, Georgia-Pacific, GlobalSantaFe Corporation, GM Financial, Goodrich Corporation, Grupo Elektra, HP 3PAR, Hutchison Telecommunications International, Iusacell, Kraft Foods, Marland Oil Company, Masisa, McAfee, Mentor (company), Nortel, PCCW, Smurfit-Stone Container, Telstra, Tiphook, Tomkins plc, Tween Brands, United Utilities, VeraSun Energy. Excerpt: Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. On January 14, 2009, Nortel filed for protection from its creditors in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, in order to restructure its debt and financial obligations. In June 2009, the company announced it would cease operations and sell off all of its business units. The period of bankruptcy protection was extended to February 2, 2013. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, Nortel Networks Inc. publishes monthly operating reports outlining cash receipts and disbursements. Alexander Graham Bell conceived the technical aspects of the telephone and invented it in July 1874, while residing with his parents at their farm in Tutelo Heights, on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario. He later refined its design at Brantford after producing his first working prototype in Boston. Canada's first telephone factory, created by James Cowherd of Brantford, was a three story brick building that soon started manufacturing telephones for the Bell System, leading to the city's style as The Telephone City. After Cowherd's death in 1881 which resulted in the closure of his Brantford factory, a mechanical production department was created within the Bell Telephone Company of Canada and production of Canadian telephones and telephone equipment was transferred to Montreal in 1882, due to restrictions on importing telephone equipment from the United States. In addition to phones, four years later, the department started manufacturing its first switchboard, a 50 line Standard Magneto Switchboard. The small manufacturing department expanded yearly with the growth and popularity of the telephone to 50 employees in 1888. By 1890 it had been transformed into its own branch of operations with 200 employees, and a new factory was under construction. As the manufacturin