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Five years ago: 56Kbps modems tipped to dominate Net
News US-based Internet market watcher Jupiter Communications said broadband solutions such as ISDN, ADSL and cable modems, won't make significant inroads until the next decade. Jupiter predicts 56Kbps modems will have 50 per cent of the consumer...
[October 18, 2001, 8:00]
A Year Ago Today: USR lines up first 56Kbps modems
News US Robotics is expected to this afternoon release formal plans for the first 56Kbps analogue modems. News of the Rockwell-led 56Kbps specification trickled out in mid-September and a series of key modem vendors including Hayes and Boca Research...
[October 16, 1997, 8:00]
PCMCIA 56Kbps FAX+Modem
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:PCMCIA 56Kbps FAX+Modem
[December 31, 1995, 7:00]
Rockwell samples 56Kbps chipset
News Matching US Robotics stride for stride, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems yesterday announced its first 56Kbps chipsets for inclusion in central site modem banks. The equipment will be used by ISPs and corporates offering remote LAN access.
[October 17, 1996, 12:11]
USR's 56Kbps modem to ship January
News US Robotics (USR) yesterday became the first modem vendor to formally announce a 56Kbps analogue device, saying products will be available in January 1997. The move was greeted by several Internet service providers (ISPs) who said they would...
[October 17, 1996, 10:32]
USR lines up first 56Kbps modems
News News of the Rockwell-led 56Kbps specification trickled out in mid-September and a series of key modem vendors including Hayes and Boca Research said they would back the technology and release products late in 1996 or early in 1997.
[October 16, 1996, 11:52]
Five years ago: 56Kbps modems take shape
News US Robotics, Motorola and Hayes have followed Boca Research by saying they will deliver products based on the proposed standard and throw their combined weight into making the speed an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standard.
[September 18, 2001, 8:00]
V.pcm 56K modem standard nearly there, 62K planned
News The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is in the final stages of defining the 56kbps analogue modem standard. In a set of meetings starting September 7 in Sun River, Oregon, the last details are due to be decided.
[August 29, 1997, 11:30]
Diamond plans 112Kbps modems
News The proprietary development isn't a technological marvel however. It simply allows a 56Kbps modem to tap into two phone lines to double bandwidth. Diamond plans to offer a software upgrade upgrade for its current 56Kbps Supra-branded modems and...
[November 3, 1997, 16:28]
Rockwell ships 56K chips to waiting modem makers
News Rockwell has given the green light to waiting modem manufacturers such as Motorola, revealing that 56kbps chipsets are now shipping, nearly a month after bugs in the software delayed their delivery. While rivals Hayes and US Robotics took the wind...
[April 11, 1997, 14:18]
Telewest broadband trial undercuts dial-up
News New subscribers to Telewest's broadband package will, for a limited period, get the service for less than the cost of most unmetered narrowband products. The cable company announced on Tuesday that it was launching a "broadband taster" in an...
[April 30, 2002, 12:48]
1997 In Review
News January The year began with huge merger news: after being linked with startup Be, Apple said it planned to buy Steve Jobs' Next. The first Pentium MMX PCs began to appear. Macro viruses were on the rampage.
[December 31, 1997, 7:00]
A Year Ago: 1997 In Review
News Our step by step guide to what went on when in 1997 January The year began with huge merger news: after being linked with startup Be, Apple said it planned to buy Steve Jobs' Next. The first Pentium MMX PCs began to appear.
[December 24, 1998, 5:38]
Apple updates its iBook and online store
News Apple on Tuesday announced it has sped up its consumer line of iBooks and increased the size of the hard drives. The new portable laptop models come as Apple prepares for a Monday media event that is expected to kick off a new online music service...
[April 23, 2003, 10:08]
Five years ago: Hayes denies x2 56K modem switch
News First published 14 March, 1997 Spokesmen said that the confusion had arisen because Practical Peripherals, its wholly-owned value brand in the US, is shipping an x2 modem to satisfy the needs of a large customer.
[March 10, 2002, 6:01]
3G networks get reality check
News Several years back, when wireless carriers broke ground on third-generation mobile phone networks, some businesses bragged of systems fast enough to blow by the 56kbps experience of Web providers like America Online.
[December 6, 2002, 10:51]
Netcom opens doors to X2 56K modems
News Based on US Robotics' (USR) Total Control system, the world's largest ISP installed X2 capability at the end of last week. USR's X2 56Kbps modem specification is vying with K56flex for high-speed modem supremacy.
[May 7, 1997, 11:07]
Awful
Member Review Slowed my pc to a crawl. I have a 56Kbps modem connection and frequently don't wish to log onto the Web to work at my PC. But this crock just keeps on attempting to dial in even with automatic update and load on startup disabled.
[October 21, 2003, 11:13]
Q&A (2): Dennis Hayes on 56K modems and the future
News We began shipping Monday the first 56K PC Card products. It was just a few hundred products but we will ramp in April and will ramp up throughout the world after that. We've had standard 56K modems for a month and we hope to have 56K products in...
[April 3, 1997, 9:52]
Xircom, TDK prep GSM/ISDN combo cards
News Launching its first GSM PC Card at CeBit today - a data-only card supporting Ericsson and Philips handsets - Xircom president and CEO Dirk Gates said that a standard 56kbps agreement may not be too far away in the light of the 3Com/US Robotics...
[March 14, 1997, 10:12]
