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Wi-Fi USENET Hotspot Growth

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) predicted on Thursday that seamless WiFi offloading solutions will begin deployment within the next 12 months, allowing better access to USENET anywhere you go. Early trials of so-called “Next Generation Hotspots” have successfully been completed,...

February 23, 2012

Technology Usenet

USENET Discuss Faster Computers

According to technology related USENET newsgroups, researchers are getting down to the atomic level in the pursuit of smaller and more powerful computers. Using a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), the scientists were able to precisely manipulate hydrogen atoms around a phosphorus...

February 20, 2012

General Technology Usenet

Newsgroups Report Interactive Web Patent Fails In Court

There was a battle taking place in the city of Tyler, Texas that had Yahoo, Amazon, Google, YouTube and even the internet’s father himself, Tim Berners-Lee, involved in a legal dispute over the future of the World Wide Web. According...

February 10, 2012

General Technology Usenet

Newsgroups Post About Google Privacy Changes

Two days after Google announced a change to its privacy policy that made it clear to users that Google would now share user information with advertisers across the broad spectrum of products the company offers, lawmakers stepped in demanding answers...

January 26, 2012

General Technology Usenet

Website Blackouts In Protest of SOPA

Many leading internet companies chose Jan. 18 to register their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, known as SOPA in the House of Representatives and PIPA in the Senate. Both pieces of legislation are...

January 18, 2012

General Technology

Global USENET Access Speeds On The Rise

Did you know that Bulgaria has the highest level of broadband adoption at 96 percent? Or that average connection speed in South Korea is 16.7 megabits per second (Mbps) versus the global average connection speed of 2.7 Mbps? These are...

January 12, 2012

Technology Usenet

Users Trust USENET More Than Other Online Sources

Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed the rise of USENET newsgroups, social networks and mobile technology that’s put the online world at an arm’s reach, day and night – yet a new study has found that people are even...

December 14, 2011

General Technology Usenet

Osama Bin Laden Death Most Popular USENET Post

In the past year, on USENET, were you a cheesehead who had to rave about your team’s big win, an avid follower of world news, or a pop culture junkie whose newsgroup posts revolved around royal weddings and celebrity train...

December 8, 2011

General Newsgroups Technology Usenet

Some Tips for Choosing a Usenet Provider

For more than 30 years Usenet has been a resource for people all over the globe to share ideas, debates, and files. It preceded the Internet, and some even consider it a precursor to social media. Premium providers such as...

November 7, 2011

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Tech Pioneer and Newsgroup Subscriber John McCarthy Passes Away

Computer scientist John McCarthy, who is one of the fathers of artificial intelligence and even coined the term, died Sunday at the age of 84. A pioneer and thought leader in areas such as artificial intelligence and ‘utility computing’, which...

October 27, 2011