If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

Neither the FCC’s announcement nor Netgear’s announcement explain why Netgear was granted the temporary exemption. The FCC ...

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Apple reportedly planned to switch to its own 5G modems with its 2023 iPhones, but Qualcomm now expects to make the ‘vast majority’ of 5G modems for those smartphones Apple reportedly planned to ...

To protect the Pixel modem from zero-day attacks, Google focused on the DNS parser. As cellular features have migrated to ...

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The security problem starts with how cellular modems are built. A phone's baseband is effectively its own operating system, ...

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