Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to be abusing the phrase "onramp to the Information Highway" in advertising OS/2. Students with Ethernet access will be disappointed with the most recent version of OS/2 Warp; it only includes support for connecting to networks over the modem, and there is no support for Ethernet connections...
Fred Levinson, the owner of A Trip by Modem, anagency in which 25 percent of the business comesin through the Internet, said "[The cap] won'thave an effect on students who are customers ofours...
Rain or shine, few Americans will go to the polls on Election Day in November 2020. Most will vote by modem, telephone or mail -- and overall citizen participation will be much greater than it is today. So will citizen interest, partly because four or five reasonably serious presidential candidates will be on the ballot, along with at least one official referendum and perhaps half a dozen national advisory referendums. Enthusiasm for the democratic process will have reached a point where even Washington should be more popular...
...high school-style lockers where they stow their personal belongings. Unanchored, workers move about wherever their business takes them. Given the choice of working where they please, nearly half the staff telecommutes either from home or from the road, keeping in touch by pager, cellular phone, fax, computer and modem...
...concierge's desk'' in the lobby to pick up laptop computers and portable phones, which can be programmed with any employee's extension. The workers then head for any one of a dozen or so living room-like settings in a large, red-carpeted open area, plug into nearby modem jacks and get cracking. For the occasional meetings of working groups, several ``strategic business units'' (conference rooms) have been set aside, but they are practically the only enclosed spaces...