Category: General

Although debated, Oct. 29, 1969, is our choice as Day One of the Internet (which would make it 44 years old today) for a good reason. That was when the very first message moved between the first two computers connected...

Today’s the day: October 17th, the day Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 8.1. And right now, the minute this post first went live, is 7AM ET, the exact minute the OS update will start appearing in the Windows Store as...

Every day when you log online, you enter the world wide web: A place where most of Africa has disappeared and China has eclipsed Russia as the country with the world’s largest land mass. At least that’s what the world...

A battle erupted Tuesday between two tech superpowers and their mega-fast Online and USENET services with Austin being the battlefield. AT&T announced Tuesday that it will deliver “gigabit” speeds to some Austin neighborhoods starting in December. That would put AT&T’s...

There is a “significant and pervasive” gap between women and men in access to information and communication technologies (such as USENET), which could widen if nothing is done, according to a United Nations study reported and posted on USENET newsgroups....

As shocking as it may seem, fifteen percent of adults in the United States are not online or have USENET access, for reasons that range from lack of interest to fear of the unknown to not being able to afford...

Today in international tech news: A European Parliament committee wants to mandate uniform electronic chargers — or, put differently, it wants Apple to cooperate. How many times have you been traveling around the globe with your mobile devices like a...

The need to conserve space may be a thing of the past for heavy-duty USENET users. Seagate on Monday announced it has shipped over 1 million hard disk drives (HDDs) using shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. According to Seagate, SMR...