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Unix Co-Creator, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away

Dennis Ritchie, the co-creator of Unix and developer of the programming language C, has passed away. He was 70 years old. Ritchie was instrumental in the development of computers, and is one of the key contributors to the technology that...

October 13, 2011

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Usenet On the Go?

These days everything is available on the go. You can bring your home office, home theater and just about anything else with you anywhere. Smart phones made the internet available anywhere and everywhere, while tablet computers continue to grow in...

October 12, 2011

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Verizon Looking to Stop Net Neutrality Rule

Verizon announced USENET Newsgroups plans to file an appeal to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality rules, noting they believe the laws to be illegal because they change Verizon’s spectrum licenses without their approval. The company filed suit in January, but...

October 3, 2011

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USENET Reveals OnStar Spy Program

If you’re an OnStar subscriber, you may have recently received an email regarding an update to the terms and conditions of your subscription and service. In it, you’ll find an interesting tidbit that allows them to determine and collect your...

September 23, 2011

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Windows 8 Offers a Developer Preview For USENET Subscribers

If you’re curious what Windows 8 will be all about, Microsoft has announced on USENET newsgroups that it is now offering a Developer Preview of the operating system at its current stage of development. It’s a pre-beta version and while...

September 16, 2011

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New Technology Allows Authorities to View Online History

Launched at the Black Hat 211 security conference and released on Usenet, Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE) is capable of unlocking files indicating the web history of computers that are operating on Windows. Elie Bursztein’s team at Stanford...

September 11, 2011

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Global Internet Speedup Begins with Faster Internet Speeds

Led by OpenDNS, Google and content delivery networks, Global Internet Speedup launched today, August 30, 2011, with the intention of making the web faster. This should help to decrease the time it takes to load web pages, and should help...

September 2, 2011

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Linux Turns 20 Today

It was way back in August of 1991 when Linus Torvalds of the University of Helsinki in Finland formed the idea for Linux. Using the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix, he asked what others users would like to see in minix, an...

August 26, 2011

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HP to Abandon PC Manufacturing?

HP is one of the best-known PC manufacturers, but it’s been reported on USENET and other news channels that the founders of the company never really wanted to enter the personal computer industry. As many newsgroups and their subscribers note...

August 19, 2011

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Google Groups Promises Fix for Lag in Updates

Google Groups stopped updating posts from Usenet newsgroups not long ago, outraging many users who found they could continue to brose previous posts, but were not being provided access to newer posts. The updating seems to have stopped on August...

August 14, 2011