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 ...

Faulty modem software is holding up online traffic for Gateway and Hewlett-Packard notebooks owners. As of Wednesday, owners of Gateway's Solo 3350 and of HP's Pavilion N5000 and Omnibook XE3 ...

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 ...

Mobile data users still overwhelmingly prefer USB modems for keeping PCs and other devices connected on the go, but they may turn more to built-in cellular radios and portable Wi-Fi hotspots over the ...

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 ...

Built-in modems lock buyers into one carrier or network technology for the life of the device, which most users and enterprises don't want Mobile data users still overwhelmingly prefer USB modems for ...