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Google Launches Internet By Balloon – USENET Next?

Google has launched an ambitious project in a bid to bring the internet to rural areas – using balloons. The top-secret, balloon-powered internet technology has been developed over the past 18 months by Google’s X division in California – where...

June 16, 2013

General Technology Usenet

USNET Newsgroups Reveal New Playstation 4

Posted on USENET Newsgroups, The PlayStation 4 will launch at $399 in the US, €399 in Europe and £349 in the U.K. and will release this holiday, Sony announced. In addition to the price and time frame, Sony said that...

June 10, 2013

General Technology Usenet

USENET Answers: Why ISPs Sometimes Change Your IP

Is there any specific reason an ISP will need to change your IP address? What is the purpose of a dynamic IP versus a static IP? Every 6 months or so, its common that ISPs tend to change your IP....

June 6, 2013

General Technology Usenet

Online Activity To Triple By 2017, Says Cisco

Cisco expects global IP traffic to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes — that’s more than a trillion gigabytes per year — by 2017. On a monthly basis, global IP traffic is expected to reach nearly 121 exabytes...

May 31, 2013

General Technology Usenet

America Speaks Against ISPs on USENET

Internet service providers are pretty awful. It seems that most Americans agree if a recent survey is to be believed. The American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its report for 2013 on USENET. This year is particularly interesting as ISPs...

May 20, 2013

General Technology

A Hack Proof Online World On Its Way?

LZeave it to the quantum physicists at Los Alamos National Labs to have run for the past two years something that sounded like science fiction: a quantum Internet that promises perfectly secure online communications. While hackers have gotten much better...

May 14, 2013

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First Online Website Announced On USENET Gets New Home

The first website ever popped onto the internet on April 30, 1993. In celebratory fashion, the site is coming back to computers everywhere. According to USENET newsgroup reports, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) plans to recreate the first...

May 6, 2013

General Technology Usenet

USENET Celebrates 20 Years Of The Web

We’re all pretty immersed with our digitally-driven lives, probably too preoccupied with our gizmos, gadgets, and social media accounts to even wonder how we got to be so technologically advanced in this day and age. Ever wonder about the Internet’s...

April 30, 2013

Technology Usenet

Online USENET Speeds On The Rise Nationally and Internationally

Akamai published its quarterly State of the Internet report on Tuesday covering global Internet speeds and Internet security from the last quarter of 2012. South Korea remained the leader in terms of Internet speeds, averaging a connection of 14 Mbps,...

April 23, 2013

Technology Usenet

The Biggest and Baddest USENET Server Ever

According to tech newsgroups, the Titan supercomputer over at Oak Ridge National Laboratory already proudly wears the mantle of being the world’s most powerful supercomputer, but you know what they say about power. Now, the Titan is set to amass...

April 22, 2013