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Nvidia’s Icera Smartphone Chipset Validated by AT&T on the LTE Network

IC and GPU chip designer Nvidia has just announced, on its official website, that the company’s new Icera software modem was certified to work on AT&T LTE networks. The Icera chip has a multimode radio transceiver that can offer 4G LTE at category 2 transfer data rates of up to 50 Mb/s. This is a very fast da...

24 May 2012
09:40 GMT

Intel Intros Gigabit Ethernet Modem

Intel is famous for its CPUs, but it dabbles in other technologies, like network modems, and it is precisely one such product that we are writing about now. During the Cable Show, the Santa Clara, California-based IT giant revealed a DOCSIS 3.0 gateway, or cable modem as the term goes. It is codenamed Puma 6, like...

22 May 2012
03:54 GMT

Clearwire Announces 4G Wireless USB Dongle

Clearwire has once again shown that a modem doesn't need to be all that big in order to give PCs complete access to the Internet via wireless broadband. The company has created and announced the Clear Stick Atlas, a 4G USB dongle that does not need any sort of software to run. In other words, as long as a dev...

9 March 2012
07:49 GMT

Clearwire Intros a 4G Hotspot and a 4G Modem/Router Hybrid

Anyone wondering where they might find some means to set up wireless networks may want to look at Clearwire's product portfolio, especially the two latest products to leave its labs. Clearwire has just announced the availability of the CLEAR Spot Voyager personal hotspot and the CLEAR Hub Express 4G modem/ wir...

31 January 2012
07:48 GMT

iTether Application Officially Pulled

The developers behind iTether, an iOS application that allowed iPhone owners to have have unlimited Internet tethering from their 3G connection, have confirmed that their software is no longer available on the iTunes App Store.Upon reporting on its approval in the App Store yesterday, I noted that there was a good ch...

30 November 2011
05:01 GMT

USB WAN Modems Sell Much Better than Embedded Ones

It looks like the happenings on the IT segment have led to a more or less strange evolution on the market for wide area network modems, in the way that what was once a niche market ended up growing much larger than was expected. It is not really surprising, on today's IT market, for a certain product type to...

7 May 2011
05:07 GMT

How to Connect the ZTE MF636DB USB Modem on Ubuntu

Are you one of those users with an MF636DB USB 3G modem from Orange, and you want to make it run under Ubuntu OS? Look no further, as today's tutorial will teach you step-by-step who to make it work! We've tested the MF636DB USB stick on an eMachines 350 netbook powered by the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)...

2 October 2010
10:01 GMT

Intel Acquires Texas Instruments' Cable Modem Business

 Intel recently made a strong push on the flash storage market and has been quite arduously developing solid state drives, but it now appears to be planning a push in another area, that of providing voice, video and data content in homes, by acquiring the cable modem unit of Texas Instruments. Intel has already ...

16 August 2010
09:57 GMT

Green Packet Announces Three Equipment Deals in Eurasia

Malaysia-based mobile broadband and networking-solution provider Green Packet Berhad announced on Thursday that it had managed to ink three different deals with WiMAX operators in Eurasia. According to Green Packet, these three companies are Maximali of Georgia, iCON Communications of Armenia and Intellecom from Ukra...

27 November 2009
08:36 GMT

SMC Ships DOCSIS 2.0-Compliant All-in-One Networking Solution

Irvine, Califonia-based SMC Networks, a leading manufacturer of consumer and commercial networking solutions, has recently announced that it has started shipping its latest DOCSIS 2.0 Draft 11n Wireless Cable Modem Gateway. The new product has been designed to provide users with a number of network-related devices in...

13 April 2009
09:55 GMT

Telstra Launches New and Super-Fast USB Modem

Australia's largest mobile carrier, Telstra, has announced the availability of a new USB modem for its customers. Manufactured by the Richmond-based Canadian company Sierra Wireless, the new product comes under the official name of "Telstra Turbo 7+ USB Series Modem" and it's targeted towards mobile busines...

12 September 2008
08:36 GMT

Sony Ericsson Unveils New HSPA USB Modems

Along the other eight new Sony Ericsson devices unveiled today, the Swedish-Japanese joint-venture has also presented two multi-functional USB modems, named MD400 and MD400g. These new products are introduced by Sony Ericsson as being "the first HSPA USB modems of their kind" and they were created for users who nee...

17 June 2008
12:35 GMT

Comcast's Subscribers: 2008 Brings DOCSIS 3.0 Speeds

Comcast has announced that they are committed to deploying a DOCSIS 3.0 networking infrastructure in the next year that will be available to more than 20 percent of their network coverage. Comcast, as well as other Internet Service Providers, use the DOCSIS 1.1 specification for their Internet-over-Cable modems.Compa...

30 November 2007
10:41 GMT

Cable Modems Pending 100Mbps Certification for 2008

CableLabs have already begun testing the new set of DOCSIS 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications) equipment submitted by five cable internet service providers. The DOCSIS 3.0 standard is still awaiting certification, but some cable ISP in Asia have already launched their lines of DOCSIS 3.0 modems, pe...

24 November 2007
03:52 GMT

First USB Mobile Broadband Modem from Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson just brought a solution for allowing busy professionals to quickly and easily connect their PCs or laptops to the internet whenever and wherever they need. It comes in the shape of the MD300 mobile broadband modem, an extremely easy to use device.Sony Ericsson MD300 is a mobile broadband modem that plug...

8 November 2007
09:58 GMT

USB Based Modems for All Networks

Most mobile computer systems like laptops and notebooks are using integrated wireless network cards in order to connect to WiFi hot spots but there are older machines that lack such capabilities or their wireless cards are incompatible with one standard or another.For those cases, a small company specialized in wirel...

31 August 2007
06:06 GMT

Sony PS3 Elite Video - Travel to the Future with 28.8 Kbps

If you decided to skip the reading part and see the video first, no, the PS3 Elite doesn't cost $3000 so you can leave your father alone even if he is a successful businessman. Although they're making more fun of the PS3 than anyone has before them, it's not exactly a lie. You can imagine that a silv...

7 May 2007
05:33 GMT

How to Have the Fastest Internet Connections Using Only Cable-TV Networks

Watching an online video, teleworking, or easy access to government services, all these, required high-speed Internet connections. However, existing bandwidths will soon be inadequate, as just one TV programme converted to the digital domain requires about 5 megabit/second (MB/s). The EUREKA (Belgium) project has r...

25 April 2007
10:13 GMT


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