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3Com, US Robotics In $6.6b Merger
News The huge collision produces a company that will span networking and communications products from internetworking hardware through modems and palmtops. A 3Com UK spokeswoman said the company will make a formal announcement in an international...
[February 27, 1997, 9:16]
US Report: Intel To Buy 3Com? Rumours Swirl Again
News Robotics modem division has had trouble balancing product shipments with market demand. The hottest technology rumour on Wall Street yesterday speculated that Intel will acquire 3Com in a bid to corner the Ethernet networking market.
[September 17, 1998, 6:54]
Veitch Speaks: Handhelds Up For Grabs
News In 1997, after a year using one of the best products in the category - the US Robotics Pilot - I swapped back to the redoubtable Ladbrokes Racing Diary. US Robotics' Pilot really exemplified that overused phrase, paradigm shift.
[October 24, 1998, 8:02]
3Com Gets Back To The Enterprise
News In the following months, the company floated the Palm PDA business it had acquired with US Robotics, and also hived off its modem business, effectively spitting out the rest of US Robotics. Tell us what you think in the Mailroom.
[May 13, 2002, 17:15]
Guy Kewney's Pre-Easter Diary
News It goes like this: once upon a time, I had a US Robotics Courier, and it stopped working. So I rang my friends at US Robotics 3Com, and said: "Can you replace the non-working part of this? They also show us the new (still "secret" Pentium II mobile...
[April 11, 1998, 7:00]
3Com Warns, Discontinues Cable, DSL
News The company last year spun off Palm, a maker of popular personal digital assistants, and US Robotics, its analogue modem business. The company gave no further details but blamed the poor sales on the US economic slowdown.
[June 8, 2001, 8:52]
Five Years Ago: Pace Denies Push From USR
News US Robotics hasn't pushed us prematurely, although speaking for Rockwell and Lucent, from a UK perspective, they would rather [K56Plus] was launched mid-year. From the level of response from the ISPs, the US Robotics announcement last November was...
[January 16, 2002, 6:01]
56K Modem Standard Agreed But Confusion Continues
News Com had already published a four-page advertisement for its US Robotics 'ITU standard 56K modem' in US magazines before the standard was finalised, and claimed, curiously, that their's was the first such modem in existence.
[February 4, 1998, 16:27]
3Com Lays Off 1,200
News Com had announced plans to spin off its high-end carrier equipment business in December, and recently completed the spinoffs of its Palm and US Robotics businesses. In light of the US economic downturn and turmoil in the telecommunications industry...
[February 27, 2001, 7:21]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News To my itense delight, this turns out not to be 3COM at all; it's US RObotics under their new name. One thing that Plasmon has to tide us over is Panasonic's PD storage system; new drives out next month.
[July 26, 1997, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Biggest Ever Network Merger Could Spell Pilot PDA Sale
News The joint company resulting from the combination of 3Com and US Robotics (USR) will accrue over $5 billion a year in revenues and employ over 12,000 staff in 130 countries. Robotics dramatically alters the networking landscape with the industry's...
[February 25, 2002, 6:01]
Biggest Ever Network Merger Could Spell Pilot PDA Sale
News The joint company resulting from the combination of 3Com and US Robotics (USR) will accrue over $5 billion a year in revenues and employ over 12,000 staff in 130 countries. Robotics dramatically alters the networking landscape with the industry's...
[February 27, 1997, 9:35]
Q&A: Dennis Hayes On Mega-mergers
News The client side of US Robotics complements the LAN side of 3Com. We're interested in making further acquisitions where they make sense to us. Hayes recently agreed to buy Cardinal Technologies, 3Com is buying USR, and now Ascend is buying Cascade.
[April 3, 1997, 9:50]
3Com, USR Merger Could Bring 56K Modem Peace
News US Robotics is currently going solo with its X2 technology while 3Com is a backer of Rockwell/Lucent's Open 56K Consortium. In the teleconference to announce the merger yesterday afternoon, spokesmen for the companies did not cover how they plan to...
[February 27, 1997, 11:28]
A Year Ago: 3Com/USR Is Biggest Network Merger
News The joint company resulting from the combination of 3Com and US Robotics (USR) will accrue over $5 billion a year in revenues and employ over 12,000 staff in 130 countries. Robotics dramatically alters the networking landscape with the industry's...
[February 27, 1998, 6:00]
MS Plays Down PalmPilot Connection
News Reports from the US have suggested 3Com-US Robotics is less than happy with both Microsoft's design and nomenclature for the Palm PC, unveiled yesterday, saying the blueprint and moniker are too close for comfort to its own hugely successful...
[January 9, 1998, 15:10]
Franklin Has Bigger, Better Plans For PC Card PDA
News Rolodex Electronics won't be resting on its laurels despite its Rex PC Card PDA emerging as the chief contender to 3Com-US Robotics' PalmPilot PDA in the pocket-able computer stakes. A UK release is scheduled for March for the device, which has...
[February 26, 1998, 10:30]
Say Goodbye To The Handheld PC
News Maeanwhile, Bajarin estimates some 1.6 million PalmPilots have been sold since US Robotics, a 3Com subsidiary, introduced the series two years ago. But handhelds, such as Hewlett-Packard's HWP LX line, may be in danger of being phased out in favour...
[April 29, 1998, 9:54]
Nuggets: Help For RSI And More USB
News USB modems are just starting to trickle on to the market from companies like 3Com/US Robotics and Aztech Labs. The latest UK launch however comes from US company Multi-Tech Systems in the shape of the MultiModem ZBA-USB.
[January 19, 1999, 14:35]
Device To Link Home Phones Directly To Net2Phone
News Com recently spun off its modem business, which as been renamed US Robotics. Network equipment maker Linksys will soon sell a new device that allows consumers to make low-cost, long-distance phone calls using Net2Phone's Internet-based voice network.
[January 8, 2001, 15:17]
