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US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
News Network hardware manufacturer US Robotics launched a firmware upgrade at the WLAN show in London on Tuesday that boosts the performance of its 802.11g wireless products to 125Mbps. Peter Blampied, European director of sales and operations at US...
[April 6, 2004, 17:25]
US Robotics Adds Voice To Sportster Modems
News US Robotics 01734-228200 Called Sportster Voice, the £199, 33,600bps unit is available now in internal and external PC versions, with a Macintosh implementation due in the autumn. It is suitable for voice mail, speakerphone and all standard data...
[July 19, 1996, 14:44]
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]
US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
Talkback No, Half duplex just means that data can only be sent one way at a time. Mbps is how fast the PHY (Physical Layer) can spew bits in one direction. Mbps is the "ideal" bandwidth you'd see if you going full pelt in both directions, but the actual bit...
[September 29, 2004, 11:43]
US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
Talkback No, Half duplex just means that data can only be sent one way at a time. Mbps is how fast the PHY (Physical Layer) can spew bits in one direction. Mbps is the "ideal" bandwidth you'd see if you going full pelt in both directions, but the actual bit...
[September 29, 2004, 11:40]
US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
Talkback Is it not a half duplex standard? meaning actual data rate will be half of 125mbits? mbits). Also you will have to be close to get the max speed.
[May 14, 2004, 11:27]
US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
Talkback Please get facts straight.a) is not interoperable with (b) or (g). Some (b) devices reduce the effectiveness of (g) devices and some devices are (a) and (b) or (a) and (g). Now what did you mean by interoperable?
[April 6, 2004, 23:38]
US Robotics Launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi Update
Talkback Yes but it's never going to achieve 125mbps, its not really that speed is it. Why can't they say what it is, my 512 connection does not transfer at that rate but I pay for a 512 connection, why can't they design a 125mbps connection and market it...
[April 7, 2004, 0:47]
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]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary, From Chicago, Las Vegas
News They're licensing the US Robotics "times-two" or "X2" technology, they say; fascinating stuff on how to link videoconferencing from modem to LAN, LAN to ISDN, ISDN to modem. The invite came from US Robotics.
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
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...
[May 1, 1997, 16:10]
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]
Interview: USR's Ed Colligan On The Future Of Palmtops
News With US Robotics' Palm Computing division set to release a lower-cost, lower memory version of its highly fashionable Pilot handheld next month, PCDN spoke to VP of marketing Ed Colligan about the Pilot the development of the palmtop market.
[August 20, 1996, 18:14]
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: Boca Backs 56,000bps Modem Spec
News Among the first wave of makers who will produce products to the spec will be US giant Boca Research and, possibly, the undisputed market leader US Robotics. US Robotics told analysts it planned to release a faster modem than its current models by...
[September 13, 2001, 8:00]
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]
Kewney: Dell Win A Coup For Psion Dacom
News It involved establishing new marketing and public relations contacts in several countries, including the setting up of a Concord, Mass.office, and it is going to be a severe blow to Psion Dacom's better-known rivals such as Hayes and US Robotics.
[December 15, 1997, 13:27]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Ask US Robotics when the next version is coming out. One of Santa's reindeers stepped on my US Robotics Pilot, and the display is broken. Dream that Bill Gates is planning to send over 800 satellites into space and set up Internet Of The Air, thus...
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Ask US Robotics when the next version is coming out. One of Santa's reindeers stepped on my US Robotics Pilot, and the display is broken. Dream that Bill Gates is planning to send over 800 satellites into space and set up Internet Of The Air, thus...
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
