With all the talk in the media about broadband Internet connections, it's easy to forget that the vast majority of UK home and small business users still have dial-up access to the Internet. The reasons for ...

Despite the lure of high-speed, always-on, cable modems and ADSL, a lot of people continue to use ISDN, or its BT Highway variant. Part of this reason is because you get a guaranteed data speed per ...

If you're wondering about the 'Fun' in the name of this modem, in this case it seems to mean 'Transparent Green'. Or it might refer to the picture on the box, of a young woman roller-blading ...

Fed up waiting for ADSL? Don't have a cable connection? Don't want to pay £50 a month for broadband Internet access? If your answer to these questions is a resounding 'Yes', then EuroSky's satellite-based broadband Internet ...

The Psion Travel Modem is designed as an add-on for either the new Psion Revo or the Psion Series 5. It connects to either, not using a cable but via the infra-red feature built into EPOC32, ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) came of age last year when Apple and Microsoft finally provided proper support for the standard on their respective iMac and Windows 98 platforms. Connecting a modem to your PC is ...

Responding to an expanding hole in the market, modem manufacturer PMC Consumer Electronics has given its ISDN terminal adapter a make-over by adding fax and voice messaging capabilities to its specification. The result is the Pace ...

More than five years after the USB standard was first proposed, and several years since virtually all new PCs have shipped with USB ports at the rear, manufacturers are really starting to work on flooding the ...

As most users have probably discovered by now, thanks to the 'impurities' of the telephone network, 56Kbps modems rarely attain their full rated speeds. Somewhere in the low 40s is more likely and, although this is ...

One of the big problems with any technological change from one standard to another is that there's a cross-over period in which neither standard is standard enough. This sort of thing happens quite often in the ...

ISDN originally stood for 'Integrated Services Digital Network'. After a few years it became 'It Still Does Nothing'. But it seems that UK businesses, and even a few home users, are catching on to the idea ...

It had to happen some time. The ISA bus, which has been a feature of PC motherboards since the beginning of the 1980s, is due to be phased out. Or rather, if the PC99 'standard' put ...

Apparently, while Pace was showing this new modem/answerphone/fax receiver to journalists, it received several ideas for possible names for the product, including 'the cod-piece'. It's not too hard to see why, since this is an unusually-shaped ...

Mobile computing is big business, which implies that the market for mobile communications technology is also rather large. Psion Dacom has a healthy share of that market, and looks set to grab more with the launch ...