Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

When in an area without Wi-Fi access, you can use your 3G/4G-enabled smartphone to surf the Internet or use it as a laptop modem. 3G/4G Internet access, though, is usually limited to urban areas where ...

Although high-speed connections are more pervasive than ever, in certain areas and under certain circumstances a dial-up modem is still a handy and reliable way to access the Internet. To hook one of ...

I've got a Nokia N73 and somebody told me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop, but I'm not sure how to set this up. It would be really useful because I'm already on a flat-rate data plan and I ...

A service launched today puts Telstra's 3G broadband modems into the carry-on luggage of business travellers and holidaymakers and bridges the time without broadband experienced by those shifting ...

'Having 5G-enabled devices will absolutely change the game for them and change the game for the channel community,' Future Tech Enterprise CEO Bob Venero says of Intel's plan to build 5G laptop modems ...

For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

We decided to find out by testing each of the four major national carriers–AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon–in 260 locations spread among 13 U.S. cities. We found some clear winners and losers, and ...

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