Category: Usenet

Consumer efforts to protect personal data and remain “invisible” online is leading to a “data black hole” that could adversely impact digital advertisers, according to USENET newsgroup reports. The move to seek “new tools that allow them to remain ‘invisible’...

A new FCC plan is rattling the bottom lines of wireless companies and cable outfits. It proposes a government run, free super WiFi network to connect online and to USENET that would be available in nearly every urban and rural...

For millions of Americans, having access to speedy Internet and USENET is still an impossibility. The FCC has promised it would fix this when it announced the National Broadband Plan in 2010. Since then, there hasn’t been much progress made...

Heavy Internet users may see their prices rise as Time Warner and other cable providers continue testing a new business model that charges customers based upon the amount of data they use. “Usage-based pricing” – which is similar to most...

Flying will be getting more enjoyable than ever for a lot of people with broadband Internet and USENET access being made available on many commercial flights. Newly adopted rules should boost competition in this part of the U.S. mobile telecommunications...

While the year’s most anticipated title on USENET newsgroups, “BioShock Infinite,” got pushed to 2013, there were still plenty of games that pushed new boundaries with innovative story lines, fantastic graphics and creative storytelling. Of course, any Top 10 list is...

There are a growing number of cities that are looking seriously at bypassing the typical ISPs high-speed broadband access, and provide their citizens with true high-speed broadband access much like what we have seen Google do in Kansas City. It...

Netflix is releasing new ISP rankings based on how well they stream Netflix, and it should surprise nobody that Google Fiber is the winner. Starting today, the movie and TV show streaming and rental service will compile a list of...

Good news for AT&T U-verse USENET users as U-verse will be expanded by more than one-third locations and will also receive an upgrade in speed. The U-verse IPDSLAM service which offers high-speed IP Internet access and VoIP will be expanded...