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Newsgroups: Quake Shifted Axis And Shortened Day

02-Mar-10

Feeling behind as if time is working against you? You may be right. Due to the magnitude of the earthquake that hit Chile recently may have changed the planet’s rate of rotation and shortened our days.

Virgin Media Plans To Offer 100MB Connections To USENET

26-Feb-10

UK members may be getting a speed bump when accessing USENET Newsgroups. Virgin Media, the UK’s leading cable, phone and internet service provider, has announced it will begin the roll-out of a 100Mb broadband service, the fastest available commercial product in the UK, by the end of 2010.

FCC Promotes US Broadband Initiative

23-Feb-10

According to the latest study by the Federal Communications Commission, one in three people in the U.S. don’t have broadband connections. In fact, only a small minority of these 93 million Americans even use the Internet at all: some have dial-up connections and some use Web services at work or at public places like libraries, [...]

Happy 32nd Birthday Computerized Bulletin Board System (BBS)

17-Feb-10

On February 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first-ever dial-up BBS in Chicago. The idea stemmed during a blizzard that kept them indoors that helped create the first electronic bulletin board and ultimately, one of the first social networks. In modern usage, the term BBS may be used to refer to USENET [...]

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups Offers Free USENET Access

11-Feb-10

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups is giving back to the community and offering University faculty and staff, media and website owner’s free access to USENET.

Students, teachers, faculty and/or members of the media are now able to apply for eligibility to free USENET access provided by NewsDemon.com Newsgroups. Webmasters and Bloggers are also welcome to apply.

Newsgroups Report Linux Founder Trovalds Likes Google Nexus One

08-Feb-10

Linus Torvalds is a programmer and has been known as an honest man. So when he finds something he likes he says so, without artifice, and that’s all it means. Torvalds is the person who created the ever popular open-source Linux kernel which forms the cornerstone of the Android operating system that runs the Google [...]

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups Wins Provider Of The Year and Spirit Of Usenet Awards

04-Feb-10

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups is awarded both the 2009 Provider Of The Year Award as well as the 2009 Spirit Of USENET Award. Each award was given separately from NewsgroupServers.com and NewsgroupReviews.com

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups Now Offers 50 Simultaneous Connections

01-Feb-10

NewsDemon.com Newsgroups recently upgraded its services again which now allow access to a total of 50 simultaneous connections. The connection upgrade now allows for faster connections and overall speed when accessing any of the 107,000 newsgroups the USENET access provider carries.

Wireless 500 MPS Connections Now Possible

25-Jan-10

Hey Newsgroups, ready for some really fast speeds? A research project conducted by Siemens, together with the Heinrich Hertz Institute, has recently broken all records for wirelessly transmitting data. By making use of white LEDs (light-emitting diodes) instead of radio waves, researchers have been able to transmit data at 500Mbps.

Young Adults Online More Than Ever

21-Jan-10

According to a survey released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, American youths are spending far more time consuming media on a daily basis than just five years ago. Young people now devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week according to the findings [...]