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
Mizuho estimated that Apple accounted for $8.8 billion worth of business for Qualcomm in fiscal 2025, and the loss of modem share could put roughly $3 billion at risk.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, Reitzes said that Qualcomm’s stock multiple has been negatively impacted by concerns over the loss of its modem business with Apple.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
The modem army, smaller and increasingly high-tech, was getting quite choosy about its recruits.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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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