http://www.newsdemon.com/blog Newsdemon.com Newsgroups and Usenet Access Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:51:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Feeling behind as if time is working against you? You may be right. Due to the magnitude of the earthquake that hit Chile recently, it may have changed the planet's rate of rotation and shortened our days. The 8.8 earthquake has been reported by NASA scientists on space related newsgroups ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/03/02/newsgroups-quake-shifted-axis-and-shortened-day/ 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. Various ISP and ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/26/virgin-media-plans-to-offer-100mb-connections-to-usenet/ 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 ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/23/fcc-promotes-us-broadband-initiative/ 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 ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/17/happy-32nd-birthday-computerized-bulletin-board-system-bbs/ 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 ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/11/newsdemon-com-newsgroups-offers-free-usenet-access/ 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 ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/08/newsgroups-report-linux-founder-trovalds-likes-google-nexus-one/ 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 “In all categories, NewsDemon has excelled throughout 2009 as being the number one Usenet access provider in the industry.” NewsgroupServers.com The review ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/04/newsdemon-com-newsgroups-wins-provider-of-the-year-and-spirit-of-usenet-awards/ 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. The increase in simultaneous connections is now more than double ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/02/01/newsdemon-com-newsgroups-now-offers-50-simultaneous-connections/ 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. ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/01/25/wireless-500-mps-connections-now-possible/ 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 ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2010/01/21/young-adults-online-more-than-ever/