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. Analysts said that the focus on networking could mean that USR's Palm...
[February 27, 1998, 6:00]
Response Of The Week: 3Com/USR Is Great For 56K
News This will be the kick in the pants USR needed to bring it in line with the majority-backed spec. "This is the best news possible for everybody who has been driven to distraction by the fragmenting of 56K.
[March 7, 1997, 16:52]
3Com, USR Merger Could Bring 56K Modem Peace
News In the teleconference to announce the merger yesterday afternoon, spokesmen for the companies did not cover how they plan to progress. US Robotics is currently going solo with its X2 technology while 3Com is a backer of Rockwell/Lucent's Open 56K...
[February 27, 1997, 11:28]
Five Years Ago: 3Com Pledges To Learn From Bay Mistakes
News The new company will be called 3Com but that doesn't mean the USR brand is going to go away. USR chairman and CEO Casey Cowell said his firm had initiated the merger. America Online is virtually 100 per cent USR network access equipment through USR...
[February 24, 2002, 6:01]
3Com Pledges To Learn From Bay Mistakes
News The new company will be called 3Com but that doesn't mean the USR brand is going to go away. USR chairman and CEO Casey Cowell said his firm had initiated the merger. America Online is virtually 100 per cent USR network access equipment through USR...
[February 28, 1997, 11:48]
MS Details Palm PC Plan, Names OEMs
News Palm PCs will typically use a pen as the primary means of input and will closely resemble 3Com-USR's PalmPilot tablet design. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, PalmPilot maker 3Com-USR is already protesting the naming of the device.
[January 8, 1998, 10:54]
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. Analysts said that the focus on networking could mean that USR's Palm...
[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. Analysts said that the focus on networking could mean that USR's Palm...
[February 27, 1997, 9:35]
Quotes Of The Week, March 3-7
News USR has been invited to join, but has so far declined. We believe USR will have little choice but to join, since 3Com supports the group. "No customers have been affected by this issue to date. There is only one Web site that illustrates the issue...
[March 7, 1997, 10:38]
Five Years Ago: Pace Denies Push From USR
News I think they will fall into two camps - those supporting USR and those supporting the rest. First published 17 January, 1997 We launch when we are confident the product is stable and well supported," said Steve Lister, managing director of Pace.
[January 16, 2002, 6:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog By the time 3Com/USR had reached agreement with the rest of the world, the warehouses were full of stock that just wasn't selling, the Internet was full of ISPs who just weren't going to upgrade until the standard had been sorted out, and everyone...
[February 12, 1999, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News By the time 3Com/USR had reached agreement with the rest of the world, the warehouses were full of stock that just wasn't selling, the Internet was full of ISPs who just weren't going to upgrade until the standard had been sorted out, and everyone...
[February 12, 1999, 17:35]
Police Your Network Traffic With IPTraf
News Linux kernel 2.2.0 or higherGNU C library 2.1 or laterncurses 4.2 or later with the complete terminfo database in /usr/share/terminfo. Download the latest tar file (as of this writing, it's 2.5.0) and save it as root to the /usr/local directory.
[April 30, 2002, 12:33]
Q&A: Dennis Hayes On Mega-mergers
News Hayes recently agreed to buy Cardinal Technologies, 3Com is buying USR, and now Ascend is buying Cascade. What's behind this spate of merger activity in the networking and communications business? I think it's a time when a lot of companies in the...
[April 3, 1997, 9:50]
MS To Reveal Pilot-like Handheld Tomorrow
News The design is expected to be a challenger to 3Com-USR's smash-hit PalmPilot. Microsoft declined to comment except to confirm that the unit will be Microsoft-branded. A US conference at 3am tomorrow (UK time) is planned.
[January 7, 1998, 15:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is a rerun of 56k modems, where politicking and bluster has led to the whole market being poisoned: I bet if Rockwell, Lucent and USR/3Com had agreed an interoperable standard, they'd all have sold a ton more modems by now.
[November 8, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This is a rerun of 56k modems, where politicking and bluster has led to the whole market being poisoned: I bet if Rockwell, Lucent and USR/3Com had agreed an interoperable standard, they'd all have sold a ton more modems by now.
[November 8, 1997, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Pre-Easter Diary
News I pick the Courier, because I'm sure USR wouldn't have two modems with a different command protocol, and bingo, it doesn't work at all. It makes for a busy day, trying to set up Wireplay. Yet another re-install, another attempt to configure another...
[April 11, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Indeed, 3Com/USR has bought a licence from him, but how this affects the ITU V.pcm standard is not clear. A grand night out in town has a bucket of cold water thrown over it by the news from Paris. Watch the announcer on BBC try and fail to come...
[September 6, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Indeed, 3Com/USR has bought a licence from him, but how this affects the ITU V.pcm standard is not clear. A grand night out in town has a bucket of cold water thrown over it by the news from Paris. Watch the announcer on BBC try and fail to come...
[September 6, 1997, 8:00]
