For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

If you thought you needed broadband to be a part of the wireless generation, think again. The Actiontec Dual PC Modem is a simple hardware device that lets two computers share a dial-up Internet ...

WWAN modem shipments in 2009 topped 72 million units, a significant growth over the 46.4 million units shipped during 2008. But both volumes pale in comparison with the expected 93 million units ...

Modems can be noisy when they dial up and connect to a remote location. Maybe you work late at night and don't want to wake anyone up or maybe the modem sounds just drive you crazy! Whatever the ...

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The local cable television company says a few of its Internet customers with computer communications hookups dating back nine or more years must buy new equipment. Just as old-style analog televisions ...

If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...

As distressing a prospect it may sound, our world did exist before social media. Those were some interesting times with nary a poorly lit portion of Cheesecake Factory fare to critique, exactly zero ...

The subject of PC modems bring to mind the story of the US patents clerk who in eighteen something or other confidently declared that everything that could be invented, has been invented. . . No ...