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Fastest Home Online Service Now Available In Tokyo

According to USENET, a Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world’s fastest for home use. So-net Entertainment began offering its “Nuro” fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments, and small businesses...

April 15, 2013

Technology Usenet

USENET Reveals Apple Patent On Hybrid Notebook Tablet

Apple has filed a patent for hybrid notebook/tablet whose display can be removed from the base containing the keyboard, reports Apple related USENET newsgroups. “The patent filing includes details of a very cool display with a retractable magnetic mechanism that...

April 4, 2013

Technology Usenet

Roadrunner Supercomputer Goes Offline

With the flip of a switch on Sunday, Los Alamos National Laboratory will shut off the Roadrunner supercomputer. The five-year-old computer was the first to break the petaflop barrier, or a million billion calculations per second, and was key to...

March 30, 2013

General Technology Usenet

Intel Celebrates the 20th Birthday of the Pentium on USENET

Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Pentium 60 CPU and changed the computing world for ever. Believe it or not, a revision of the original Pentium core still lives on today, in Intel’s bleeding-edge, 50-core Xeon Phi — a...

March 25, 2013

General Technology Usenet

Report Reveals What Happens Online Every Minute

A post recently posted on a technology USENET newsgroup reports a recent study from Intel on what happens online on any given minute. According to Intel, the number of networked devices now matches the world’s population, which means the Internet...

March 20, 2013

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USENET Asks: Is Windows 8 A Failure?

Although most USENET newsgroup clients work well on the new OS, Windows 8 has had a tough run, and the number of people taking issue with the OS keeps growing. Now Samsung executive Jun Dong-soo has taken shots at the...

March 8, 2013

Technology Usenet

National Unplug Days Starts Tonight

After work today, the National Day of Unplugging could give you just the break from USENET you may have been desiring. The National Day of Unplugging is a 24-hour period – running from sunset to sunset – and starts tonight....

March 1, 2013

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New Windows Blue Announced On Usenet

According to some newsgroup posts, Microsoft and its Windows Blue team are gunning hard to push Windows Blue out by the end of summer. They’re both hoping to get out a public preview for Windows Blue within the coming months....

February 25, 2013

Technology Usenet

Oscar Nominees Voted For Online – Are The National Elections Next?

A long time ago, many USENET newsgroup posters predicted a time where online voting would become commonplace and for the first time ever, this year’s Oscar winners were selected online. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to...

February 19, 2013

General Technology Usenet

USENET Report States US Based ISP Speeds As Advertised

Internet service providers are continuing to deliver the speeds they advertise, as consumers migrate to faster speeds, a USENET reports. The Federal Communications Commission has released its third “Measuring Broadband America” report and finds that Internet service providers (ISPs), on...

February 16, 2013