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Agere Systems

Raanana, Israel: This office was based on Modem-Art, a developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices, which Agere has acquired in 2005.

Alcatel One Touch X020

Alcatel One Touch X020 is a Wireless HSDPA access device (modem) manufactured by TCT-Alcatel and notable for using the mini-USB interface (External mini-USB modem).

Ambit

Ubee Interactive (Formerly: Ambit Broadband), a producer of cable modem, ADSL, and IPTV products.

American Society of Dental Surgeons

Among these, following in the footsteps of Pierre Fauchard the "father of modem dentistry", were some of the profession’s immortals, including Chapin A. Harris, Horace Hayden, Solyman Brown, and Eleazar Parmly.

Atari Jaguar

An IBM AT type null modem cable may be used to connect two Jaguars together.

Bell 103 modem

The American synth-pop band Information Society featured a track entitled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" on their album Peace and Love, Inc. that could be decoded to a text message by holding a phone handset connected to a Bell 103 modem up to the speaker playing the track.

Cable modem

LANcity was an early pioneer in cable modems, developing a proprietary system that was widely deployed in the U.S. LANcity, which was led by the Iranian-American engineer Rouzbeh Yassini, was then acquired by Nortel, which eventually spun the cable modem business off as ARRIS.

CModem

C-Modem is a protocol driver developed by Lavio Pareschi (Rio de Janeiro) in 1989 that works similarly and better than ZMODEM.

Command HQ

Command HQ supports head-to-head play by two players connected remotely via serial (RS-232) cable, dial up modems, or locally via a null-modem cable.

CompTIA

Topics of the Essentials/Core examination include IRQs, direct memory access, and practical computer repair, including the installation and repair of hard drives, modems, network cards, CPUs, power supplies, PDAs, and printers.

Disease surveillance in China

In establishing the nationwide communication network, modems with common analog telephone lines had to be used.

DSL modem

DSL routers, the most common form of DSL modem, the are external to the computer and wired to the computer's Ethernet port or its USB port, whereas voice-band modems are usually internal devices installed in the computer itself in a PCI interface slot in the back.

FidoNet

There are similar solutions for Linux such as MODEMU (modem emulator) which has limited success when combined with DOSEMU (DOS emulator).

First constituency for French residents overseas

On 23 May, France 24 organised a televised debate in New York City for the eight candidates it deemed "active" in terms of their campaign : Corinne Narassiguin (Socialist), Frédéric Lefebvre (UMP) Carole Granade (MoDem), Philippe Manteau (ARES), Julien Balkany (dissident UMP), Gérard Michon (dissident UMP), Antoine Treuille (misc. right), and Emile Servan-Schreiber (misc. right).

FLOW

FLOW a Caribbean-based Cable modem Internet service, owned by Columbus Communications

GameLine

In the early 1980s a cable pioneer named William von Meister was looking for a way to use his innovative modem transmission technology, which previously was acquired in ill-fated attempts of sending music to cable companies.

Hervé Morin

After the UDF's candidate for the 2007 presidential election, François Bayrou, didn't make it to the 2nd round, he hinted that he attempted to create an alliance with the Socialist Party and decided to found a new political party: the Democratic Movement (or MoDem).

HP Mini 1000

An 802.11b/g wireless NIC (Broadcom BCM4312) is included for Wi-Fi, while Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a built-in HSDPA modem are options.

In re Hayes

In 1985, Dale Heatherington was issued a patent entitled "Modem with Improved Escape Sequence Mechanism to Prevent Escape in Response to Random Occurrence of Escape Character in Transmitted Data," and the patent was assigned to Hayes Microcomputer Products.

Kenwood Corporation

Kenwood has offered lines of HF, VHF/UHF, and portable amateur radio models, including some with built-in digital data modes (Automatic Packet Reporting System, built on AX.25 packet radio) and modems needed to send and receive these protocols.

Kyocera

Shortly afterward, Kyocera introduced one of the first portable, battery-powered laptop computers, sold in the U.S. as the Tandy Model 100, which featured an LCD screen and telephone-modem data transfer capability.

Marouane Chamakh

In the 2010 regional elections, Chamakh was, surprisingly, listed as a candidate by the MoDem for the Gironde department in the Aquitaine region.

MiFi

May be connected to a computer via a Micro-USB connection, though doing so disables the Wi-Fi networking, converting the device into a traditional single-client modem.

Mobile device forensics

AT commands are old modem commands, e.g., Hayes command set and Motorola phone AT commands, and can therefore only be used on a device that has modem support.

Moves – International Festival of Movement on Screen

AR partners include 700IS Reindeerland - Festival of Experimental film and video (Egilstaðir, Iceland), FRAME Research (Porto, Portugal) and MODEM (Debrecen, Hungary).

Moviya Village

The Sarpanch aims at getting Wi-Fi connected to the entire village so that the villagers can use unlimited internet once they purchase the modem from the panchayat office.

MSN Internet Access

MSN was provided by Bell Sympatico, and has been included in older Windows editions (9x, Me) to easily create and connect with dial-up or broadband using a modem.

Nathalie Griesbeck

She was the second candidate in the East constituency on the MoDem list, while Jean-François Kahn was the top candidate.

Nintendo 64 accessories

SharkWire Online — An InterAct Game Shark with modem and PC style serial port for keyboards.

Punsari

The Sarpanch aims at getting Wi-Fi connectivity in the entire village so that the villagers can use unlimited internet once they purchase the modem from the panchayat office.

Redirector

COM port redirector, for Windows operating systems relay serial data between a "virtual" COM port and a serial device server or modem server on a network; TTY redirectors perform the same function for UNIX/Linux operating systems

Residential gateway

A USB modem plugs into a single PC and allows a connection of that single PC to a WAN.

Rouzbeh Yassini

He was the founder of LANcity and helped establish the cable modem industry standard (DOCSIS) through Cable Television Laboratories.

Silicon Snake Oil

Although the internet took a diffent path than predicted in Silicon Snake Oil, it does provide a good description of surfing the World Wide Web when Mosaic (web browser) was the only web browser, Gopher (protocol) was used to find documents and the Bulletin board system required users to call another computer's modem.

StarText

Some of the early subscribers accessed the service using the Timex 1000 with its 16k RAM and 300 baud modem.

Sublink Network

Sublink was the very first public (non-academic) internet email and newsgroup network in Italy, with very low access fees (around $100 a year), fast backbone modems running at 19200 bps (the average modem was 2400 bit/s at that time), and fully registered to the NIC.

Telex

This F1F2 option replaced the DC voltage of the local and long distance options with modems at the exchange and subscriber ends of the telex circuit.

Terminal node controller

A typical model consists of a microprocessor, a modem, and software (in EPROM) that implements the AX.25 protocol and provides a command line interface to the user.

UTStarcom

Its core markets are IPTV and broadband, It also sells handsets and other consumer products including DSL Modems and VoIP terminal adapters.

Vishnukundina

To have an immediate access to the Kalinga region, he shifted his capital from Bezwada to Lenduluru (modem Denduluru in the West Godavari district).

Woolton Hall

There are in this suite the Dining-room, eighteen feet high, and of good proportion, an Ante-room, two sides of which are hung with Brussels tapestry, after designs by Teniers, and a very handsome chimney-piece carved in oak: through this, is the Drawing-room — the whole decorated by a small but choice collection of Pictures, by both ancient and modem masters.

XJACK

The XJACK was originally used in modem and network cards, to attach a standard RJ11 or 8P8C plug directly to the PC card.

Zilog SCC

One of the most famous users of the SCC was the Apple Macintosh computer line, which used the SCC to implement two serial ports on the back of the early designs, labeled "modem" and "printer".


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