41.   The computer modem maker has struggled in recent years as profit margins in the industry thinned and competition from larger companies cut into sales.

42.   The profitable modem makers are those that can supply their own chips or develop their own innovative software.

43.   The result was a price war, as modem makers tried to overcome buyer resistance with a relentless campaign of markdowns.

44.   The Skokie-based modem maker reiterated a cautionary growth forecast in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

45.   The Skokie-based modem maker is expected to release fiscal third-quarter results later this month.

46.   Those contentions are intended to lead to the conclusion that control of the Norcross modem maker must be taken from the man who co-founded it.

47.   To convince consumers to buy before then, modem makers from both camps have been offering free upgrades to the new standard.

48.   U.S. Robotics has bid to acquire Hayes Microcomputer Products, the troubled Norcross modem maker that is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

49.   American Telephone and Telegraph said its subsidiary, modem chip maker Paradyne, has licensed the voice-data technology of Radish Communications Systems.