modem
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For Comcast customers who lease an Advanced Xfinity Gateway modem, there’s an integrated Wi-Fi motion sensor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Designed to keep desktop PCs going briefly after an outage occurs, these extra-chunky power strips can keep a modem running for hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Apple’s in-house modem production and an expected 8% decline in its smartphone sales in 2026 pose risks to Qualcomm.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Despite having “great chipset and modem technology,” that multiple has been compressed to 10x, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modem life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
From "1984" by George Orwell
From what I saw, I’m convinced agentic and AI browsers are the future, but the current iteration feels a bit like when I first tried America Online to use the internet over dial-up modems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
Later, I worked on modems at Bell Labs, funded by a government-mandated monopoly’s profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
That, plus subsequent cases, eventually would help popularize the internet — jacking early modems into the telephone system — and the legal breakup of the AT&T/Bell monopoly.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
I was thirty-seven, more efficient than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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