modem

June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

The iPhone 17e features a cellular modem made by Apple, the C1X, which the company says is twice as fast as the C1 modem in the iPhone 16e.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Also, it’s easy to forget that your Wi-Fi router is plugged into a modem, usually in some far corner of the house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

A BBS was hosted on a personal computer, and other computers could dial in to the BBS using a modem and a terminal software program, allowing users to exchange messages, documents and software.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025

A long list of telephone numbers for dial-up bulletin board systems was taped to the desk beside the modem.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

But Apple has been weaning itself off Qualcomm, replacing it with its homegrown modems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Investors have known about Qualcomm’s most pressing challenge for years: Apple, its top customer, is phasing Qualcomm modems out of iPhones by next fall.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

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

Looking back, what enabled Netscape to take off was the existence, from the earlier phase, of millions of PCs, many already equipped with modems.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman