Skokie-based U.S. Robotics Inc., a major producer of telephone modems used to link computers, announced a deal Wednesday to buy the country’s leading producer of credit-card-size modems for ...

Platinum Equity, the buyout firm owned by billionaire Tom Gores, is acquiring computer modem maker U.S. Robotics Corp. in an all-cash deal, the companies are expected to announce today. Neither ...

There will be plenty of waves for analog modems to surf, thanks to a new dial-up modem standard--and U.S. Robotics' plans to bring one of the first boards to the beach.

Skokie-based U.S. Robotics Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. said Tuesday they will team up to offer a hybrid modem supporting both analog and asymmetric digital subscriber line, or ADSL, standards ...

There will be plenty of waves for analog modems to surf, thanks to a new dial-up modem standard and U.S. Robotics' plans to bring one of the first boards to the beach. U.S. Robotics announced ...

U.S. Robotics has formed an alliance with Broadcom to sell its cable modems as well as its home phone network alliance equipment, which uses home phone lines to connect network equipment.

I have had good luck simply transplanting the OS 9 modem script for my US Robotics 56K into the OS X Modem Scrips folder in the Library.

US Robotics' (USR) x2 modem technology, which provides a 56Kbps transmission rate, may well be the last gasp of the traditional analog modem. The fact that 56Kbps is only possible in one direction ...

Even without a service provider upgrade, upgrading your own modem brings small benefits. Overall refinements in the V.92 code may improve connections overall, say U.S. Robotics officials.

U.S. Robotics announced a new 56K modem last week that lets users make phone calls over the Internet with a regular telephone.