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A Year Ago: US Robotics Unveils Net Video Package
News Robotics is set to release a system for transferring video data over the Internet. Big Picture, to be released in the US in December includes a voice/video fax modem, a colour video camera and video capture card.
[November 26, 1997, 9:06]
Interview: USR's Ed Colligan On The Future Of Palmtops
News About a year ago, we spoke to US Robotics (USR) about a modem for the device and they liked the product so much they bought the company. With US Robotics' Palm Computing division set to release a lower-cost, lower memory version of its highly...
[August 20, 1996, 18:14]
Supercomm Diversifies As Telcos Suffer
News A decade ago, Supercomm was the nearly exclusive domain of telephone network equipment, said US Robotics global product manager Kevin Goulet. This year's show floor and its broad range of equipment, from Lucent's new refrigerator-size telephone...
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
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. Com has a prototype, and a year ago spoke to analysts...
[May 13, 2002, 17:15]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Off to Circuit City, where the plausible salesman talks me into buying a US Robotics Sportster PC Card for $200. And each time, I pat my shirt pocket reassuringly to check that I actually still have my US Robotics Pilot.
[February 15, 1997, 7:00]
Q&A (2): Corel's Cowpland Wants Java Everywhere
News The handheld is attractive but we think it's a bit risky with all the Windows CE units now, and US Robotics having done a good job with the Pilot out there. Who would have thought a year ago that Java would be where it is today?
[December 3, 1996, 15:39]
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]
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. Instead, explained McGuire, users will either use a palm-sized PC, such as 3Com Corp's (COMS) Palm...
[April 29, 1998, 9:54]
Quotes Of The Week, August 19-23
News About a year ago, we spoke to US Robotics (USR) about a modem for the device and they liked the product so much they bought the company. "It's a tad expensive, isn't it? He put it in lots of newsgroups, suggesting it was a sexy program, so many...
[August 23, 1996, 14:59]
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? The ideal system is to get a games package which a ten year...
[April 11, 1998, 7:00]
Five Years Ago: Xerox Slaps USR With Patent Suit
News Xerox Corporation has accused US Robotics (USR) of stealing its handwriting recognition technology for use in its PalmPilot products, a year and a half after US Robotics bought Palm Computing and almost a year after the first Pilot products hit...
[April 29, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Boca Backs 56,000bps Modem Spec
News US Robotics told analysts it planned to release a faster modem than its current models by the end of the year but declined to say whether it would be a 56,000bps device. Among the first wave of makers who will produce products to the spec will be...
[September 13, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Psion Plans 32-bit Products, Reports Profits Up
News Palmtops based on the 32-bit EPOC32 operating system will lead the way as the UK firm tries to fend off the charge of the Windows CE posse and US Robotics' Pilot. In 1997, our major five-year investment in 32-bit technologies will begin to be...
[March 9, 2002, 6:01]
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]
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]
A Year Ago: 1997 In Review
News Com said it was to purchase US Robotics, just one of several networking mergers and acquisitions. Compaq released a sub-£1,000 server, sparking a host of imitators, and said it planned to be the world's number three computer company by the year 2000.
[December 24, 1998, 5:38]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ask US Robotics. Recall that he bought a camera not two weeks ago, and hurriedly change the subject. Since the whole thing started, I haven't heard one technical argument why one of these is better than the other - it's purely a marketing thing.
[August 23, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Ask US Robotics. Recall that he bought a camera not two weeks ago, and hurriedly change the subject. Since the whole thing started, I haven't heard one technical argument why one of these is better than the other - it's purely a marketing thing.
[August 23, 1997, 8:00]
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]
