May 15
Motorola sale fails, plant to close
Citing a lack of cohesion on the part of the buyers,
Motorola announced
that the previously-announced sale of its Transmission
Products Division to international investors Cpath, Inc.
will not be completed. The Transmission Products Group
manufacturers Motorola's line of consumer analog and ISDN
modems. With no buyer, Motorola will close its Huntsville,
Alabama manufacturing facility. The announcement states that
the company will meet "existing commitments regarding
warranties and customer programs." In announcing the
sale
agreement late last month, Motorola stated they would
still provide technical support and V.90 upgrades for
existing modems. (Thanks to Alex P. Madarsz for the scoop.)
Biniti
Harvey of CBS MarketWatch looks at rumors of a takeover
at communications giant Motorola.
Transend will release the 112K Gemini bonding modem in
July, according to Doug
Olenick of Computer Retail Week. Transend claims to use
a slightly different approach to bonding that it believes
will result in better performance, but ISPs must make
software changes on their end to fully utilize the
technology.
Todd
Wasserman of Computer Retail Week reports that 3Com has
depleted most of the inventory of x2 products in the
channel. In some cases, 3Com reclaimed x2 products from the
channel and upgraded them to V.90.
Andy
Peters of the Atlanta Business Chronicle examines the
financial woes of Georgia-based Hayes Corporation.
May 13
Lucent is introducing a new technology dubbed Internet
Call Waiting that notifies modem users of incoming calls
while they're surfing. When a call comes in, a message will
pop up on the user's screen, allowing them to take the call,
ignore it, or send it to voicemail. The catch? The system
relies on software installed in the local telephone network.
In the current version of Internet Call Waiting,
accepting the call will close the connection to the
Internet. In future versions, Lucent hopes to route the call
through Internet telephony software.
Practical
Peripherals has V.90 upgrades for models 4719 and 4721.
Aztech has
V.90 upgrades for some models.
CNET's Computers.com reviews twenty 56K
PCMCIA card modems and seven ISDN
routers.
PC
Week looks at plans to bundle DSL modems with Compaq and
Dell computers.
May 11
Regarding the disappearance of Apex Data's site, several
readers noted that Apex Data tech support can be found on a
SMART
Modular Technologies page.
Wired's "Wireless
Net Thinks, Acts Locally" reports on an attempt to use
PCS for wireless data service.
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