They are not much different than the 1970s-era dumb terminals that dialed by modem to connect with mainframe computers.
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However, municipal clerks send their election night results by dial-up modem to the county clerk, where they are tabulated and stored.
The system pulls its realtime data from Garmin's servers through your connected smartphone, or, if vehicle manufacturers opt to include it, you may be able to maintain a constant connection by adding a dedicated modem.
Many of the set-top boxes supplied by NTL have a cable modem inside that could do the same job.
By plugging a router into a cable modem, ordinary people are stepping into a complex world, where they need to understand some highly specialized technology, according to Michael Gartenberg, VP and Research Director, Jupiter Research.
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Such a feature would save businesses considerable sums by obviating the need for separate 3G mobile modem cards for popping into employees laptops when they are away from WiFi hotspots.
Decades ago, ADP enabled clients to administer their payroll off-site by connecting to processing centers via a dial-up modem.
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Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
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The new 150Mbps Wireless N Mini Pocket Router (TL-WR700N) can be used to create an instant Wi-Fi hotspot by plugging in an Ethernet cable from your existing network or modem.
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The reading desks, lavishly leather-topped, will be fed books at speed by a computerised retrieval system, and will be equipped for modem and Internet use assets which initially may baffle the older generation of nostalgic pen-pushing scholars.
Three years earlier, he gave this circuitous, hour-long talk, laying out the long-running war between evolving information technologies from the piano roll to the telegraph to the modem, and how the established institutions that are disrupted by those technologies have sought to stifle them.
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And now anyone with a modem and a few dollars can become his own publisher by using simple software to create a blog -- a kind of diary of opinion or a running journal that also provides links to articles and other Web sites.
This one promises download speeds of up to 42Mbps and upload speeds approaching 5.76Mbps, with a swiveling design that allows the body of the modem to be tucked up against the side of the notebook and protects it from being damaged by accidental bumps.
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