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General Jul 26, 2008 1 min read

Source of Northern Lights Discovered

U.S. scientists working with NASA said they've uncovered the source of substorms in space that fuel the explosive energy behind the northern lights. Vassilis Angelopoulos, a professor at the University of California,...

General Jul 24, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 24th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: When Did UUCPNET become the common name for the Usenet online network ? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City,...

General Jul 22, 2008 2 min read

New York Attorney General Puts More Pressure on Comcast Usenet

New York Attorney General has been set on an initiative on pressuring ISPs to either filter or eliminate Newsgroups altogether. We recently posted on how Verizon, AT&T, AOL, Time Warner and Sprint have already taken...

General Jul 21, 2008 1 min read

NASA May Be Turning Japanese

Nasa is talking to Japan's space agency about using one of its spacecraft for servicing missions to the International Space Station, according to Japanese media reports. Nasa has been considering various options to...

General Jul 16, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 16th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: This one is a bit tricky....The USENIX Association is an umbrella of what Association? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their...

General Jul 13, 2008 1 min read

ATT Drops Binaries

Recently we had announced that ATT stated that they would be dropping groups from its Usenet access to customers. Apparently, ATT did not waste any time. As of Saturday morning (July 12th), users have reported that...

General Jul 13, 2008 1 min read

XBox 360 60GB Version Confirmed for August

Microsoft has finally confirmed a 60GB XBox 360 as well as a price cut for the 20GB model. The company made the official announcement on their website of a new XBox 360 with a 60GB hard drive coming in early August,...

General Jul 12, 2008 1 min read

Intel Centrino 2 Platform Launches On Monday, July 14th

As notebook shipments have begun to significantly outpace the sales of desktop computers, each new notebook platform launched by Intel becomes more important to the company. This Monday July 14 marks the launch of...

General Jul 12, 2008 1 min read

Top 10 Best Linus Trovalds Quotes

1. “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.” 2. “Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” 3. “My name is Linus, and I am your God.” 4. “See, you not only have to be a good coder...

General Jul 11, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon welcomes Newsgroups customers from AOL and AT&T!

Apparently, AT&T and Time Warner owned AOL have decided to eliminate free usenet access for their customers. Newsdemon would like to extend a welcome to the refugees of these ISPs and offer a 15% discount to all new...

General Jul 10, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 10th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What does ARPANET stand for? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the...

General Jul 09, 2008 1 min read

Fanboy Gets A Fan

One of the most popular sources for definitions, Mirriam-Webster, has decided to include the word 'Fanboy' to the 11th Edition Collegiate Dictionary this year. Others that were considered, but eventually squashed were...

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