For wired connectivity, HDMI has emerged as the enabling digital interface for HD in consumer electronics. The key to its success is the ability to deliver uncompressed HD 1080p video and audio at a ...

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 ...

Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this ...

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I was just popping an older modem into one of my boxes to use for faxing...and the system (correctly) identified it as a 'GVC 5634 BTS Video Ready Modem'. What does the video part mean? Is it some ...