Sentences with phrase «own modem»

Dial - up modems were still the norm and I needed to scoop up a 9600 bps modem (blazing fast at the time).

It will use a 4G wireless modem built into the car itself to connect to the Internet, navigate Google Maps, surf Facebook, and offer a Wi - Fi hotspot for people in the car.

Aptela is one example: All you need is a broadband connection — T - 1, cable modem or DSL will do.

Steve Case was not only a brilliant entrepreneur, but he also had access to an unlimited number of customers nationwide who only had to attach a modem to their phone line to receive his service.

In the late»90s, I got my first computer with a modem, and within a few chirps, beeps and other strange noises, I was blazing across the internet at 14.4 k speed.

Some companies, like Audi and Chevrolet, are selling cars with Internet modems and touch - screen systems built in.

Qualcomm and Apple are facing off in federal court over Qualcomm's licensing for modem chips, which provide mobile data connectivity to devices like the iPhone.

It's already happening in some high - end cars, but what's more surprising is that there's a general feeling among involved parties that the majority of vehicles will have built - in modems by 2017, he said.

Some of the company's prior mobile efforts have lagged, although it won an important victory convincing Apple (aapl) to use one of its 4G modem chips in versions of the new iPhone 7.

Apple doesn't appear to own the patents to make its own mobile modem chips, an area in which it has increasingly been shifting from Qualcomm (qcom) to chips made by Intel in an effort to cut costs.

This is the highest - capacity undersea cable ever built — about ten million times faster than your average cable modem — and we're beaming light through it starting today.»

The future low end of the Atom line wasn't Intel's expected gateway to the next iPhone, that's more about mobile modems.

These include PdaNet, which turns your phone into a laptop modem, and iProtect, an antitheft application that helps you find a stolen phone.

Most people laugh nostalgically at the sound of a modem dialing up, but it might be easy to forget that more than half the world still isn't connected to the internet at all.

Unable to afford a high - speed Internet connection, Musk ran the website on his PC using a dial - up modem.

Amazon (amzn), for instance, said in August that owners of Technicolor modems could ask Alexa to perform tasks like configuring their home networks.

He wants Qualcomm for its leading smartphone modem - chip division, an example of what he calls a «franchise» that will continue to dominate its industry.

The U.S. Department of Defense has already stopped selling mobile phones and modems made by the Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE in stores on its military bases, citing potential security risks.

Apple added Intel as a modem supplier for some iPhones last year.

Intel Corp. will supply the LTE modems for the new Watch, according to another person familiar with the situation.

Already, subscribers are opting to be billed electronically on floppy disk or by modem.

RINGdetector ($ 59.95 from Lynx Automation, Lynnwood, Wash.; 206-744-1582) provides multilisting capability over a single line by sensing whose number a caller has dialed — modem, fax, telephone - answering device, or your personal phone — and directing it accordingly.

Many people will operate their home computers with weak or even no passwords and with their only protection from Internet threats being the rudimentary security capabilities of their DSL router or cable modem, which they will gladly disable to make it easier for their Xbox, PlayStation or Wii game console to connect with strangers from all over the world.

«We anticipate a record iPhone 6 upgrade cycle could lead to (a) better... chipset average selling price for Qualcomm, as we believe the iPhone 6 has adopted (the company's) next - genreation modem versus the legacy modem in the current generation iPhones,» he wrote.

Starting in December, businesses will be able to buy a Microsoft Surface Pro laptop / tablet hybrid with a built - in LTE cellular modem, starting at $ 1,149.

Once, you needed a desktop PC and a modem to experience the Internet.

There were no smart devices (let alone smartphones), dial - up modems were the norm, and candy - colored Apple desktop computers were all the rage.

Qualcomm, an early pioneer in mobile phone chips, supplies so - called modem chips to phone makers such as Apple, Samsung and LG that help the phones connect to wireless data networks.

The only other major supplier of high - end chips is Intel, which supplies about half of the modem chips in Apple's iPhones.

I get 10 megabits of Internet data per second on my cable modem, 400 minutes a month of cell phone time, and more than 200 channels of TV, along with all the Wi - Fi my laptop can pick up.

And that's just for the service, as I bought my own modem so I wouldn't have to pay a monthly rental fee.

Sony Ericssona announces 3G USB modem that supports tri-band UMTS and quad - band GSM, new deal with Google.

Today anyone with a computer and a modem can do web searches to locate suppliers virtually anywhere in the world.

The dispute between the two companies broke out after Apple started using modem chips from Intel (intc) in about half of new iPhones last year, instead of buying all its chips from Qualcomm.

That approach allows for compressing the message and accelerating it by a high - speed modem, thus improving efficiency.

The product is lightweight and includes a server, a modem and entertainment packages that can be accessed from passengers» mobile phones and tablets or laptops.

But these days it's possible for any business owner with a 486 - or - faster PC, a modem, and sufficient time and energy to comparison shop among a growing range of electronic - banking options.

Buy in and you get about $ 40,000 worth of equipment, including 50 modems, six ISDN routers, three servers of various capacities, and a heavy - duty T - 1 access line.

People still booked travel arrangements over the phone, and they connected to the internet using dial - up modems.

If you think Joffe's comments are the ravings of a paranoid cybersecurity nerd, you're in denial about your DVR, cable modem, and smart refrigerator.

And for the first time in Surface Pro history, Microsoft is offering models with LTE modems built in, so you can get online when you're on the go.

The key for Apple (aapl) may be maintaining solid battery life with the additional power draw from a wireless modem.

If a businessperson wanted to display a VisiCalc program simultaneously on his Apple computer and on a salesperson's Apple in an office 3,000 miles away, he could use ordinary telephone wires with Reflexive VC software published by Arrow Micro Software ($ 45; 11 Kingsford Crescent, Kanata, Ontario K2K 1T5, Canada) and the appropriate hardware (a modem).

Apple argues that US carriers haven't yet installed the kinds of networks where faster modems would make a difference.

Intel scored a big win by getting its modem chips inside some of the iPhone 7, and the company's new 7480 LTE modem will likely go inside some of the new phones as well.

You'd fire up the whatever - kilobaud modem and start the pay - per - minute meter running and read about politics on Salon or whatever.

Lightning strikes... My career took off when Jeff Bezos personally hired me to handle the publicity and linking for Amazon.com's launch, which I did from my kitchen table on a dial - up modem.

I always considered myself lucky to be around to witness the start of new things — the first personal computers, modems, internet connections and mobile phones; the onset of text messaging and e-commerce; the first smartphones; social media; VR, AR and the internet of things; drones and self - driving cars — it goes on and on.

The FF 91 comes with several CAT6 LTE modems and dual antennas for in - car Wi - Fi to make such connectivity possible.

Although it has canceled several families of chips designed to serve as the main processor for phones and tablets, the company is still pushing hard to gain share in the market for modem chips, a secondary but nonetheless important part of phones.