If you have ever used the internet at home, in the office, or anywhere else, you have already interacted with a device called ...

“Lately, I’ve been working with a client where my development computer is not connected to the Internet. This is a huge inconvenience, as the unavailability of Google and Stack Overflow vastly impact ...

My mom just called me tonight telling me that she came home this evening and her home office circuit breaker was tripped. The cable modem is burnt, with visible black marks on the outside of the unit, ...

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ...

A modem ping determines what kind of connectivity your computer shares with another device or a remote host. You can perform this instantaneous check manually; the process takes only a few moments and ...

Sun is famous for its “the network is the computer” slogan. Today the company bends the meaning a bit to suit its current business, but it was a profound thought when originally coined to spotlight ...

Aiming to tap into demand for internet of things (IoT) technologies, Qualcomm Technologies has unveiled its latest IoT modem designed to offer greater computing capabilities, connectivity and location ...

The storm that swept through Citrus on Friday morning was a dud, it seemed, sending only a few trees to the ground. But with insidious precision it claimed victims. Few people knew what hit them until ...

I'm working on a Compaq Presario 5461. I reinstalled Windows 98 as part of diagnosing a separate problem. Later the computer was brought back with the complaint that using the Internet locks up the ...

The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers ...