Global Village Communication Inc. was a leading manufacturer of easy-to-use fax modems and other

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products for

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platform. It was one of the few manufacturers to support the Mac's

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serial ports without requiring an adapter. Major product lines included the TelePort series of high-speed desktop

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modems, and the PowerPort series of internal

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modems, as well as a series of modems that connected to the Mac's ADB port. Many of its products were bundled with the

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series of computers, and it was the manufacturer for the internal modem in the

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. The company also produced the OneWorld

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and the GlobalFax

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software for Macintosh computers, which it bundled with its hardware. Amid a sharp decline in Macintosh sales in the late 1990s, Global Village sold itself to Boca Research in June 1998. Boca Research in turn sold the Global Village division to

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in 2000.

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