Category: General

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...

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...

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...