Supernews, a Usenet service and directory, today changes its name to remarQ communities and announces a content deal with Excite. Results from remarQ's Usenet directories will appear with Excite's search results in a ... Supernews, a Usenet service and directory, today changes its name to...
When Internet behemoth America Online told 24-million-plus subscribers last month it was dropping access to Usenet in mid- March, the response was nearly universal.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Critical Path, Inc. (OTC:CPTH), a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that it entered into an agreement as of February 29, 2008, and on March 3, 2008, completed the sale of certain assets of its SuperNews Usenet access business, including its software, commercial customer...
Jun. 10--Three years ago, America Online became the first of the Big Three consumer online services to open a gateway from its walled metropolis to the section of the Internet called Usenet newsgroups. The old guard on Usenet was somewhat divided Jun....
Talkway, a San Francisco start-up that wants to be the Yahoo! of Usenet newsgroups, has lined up its first advertisers -- BarnesandNoble.com, N2K's Music Boulevard. Logitech and the Colombian Coffee Federation -- and is aiming for more this month. Talkway, a San Francisco start-up that wants...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 23, 1998--Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., a leading global Internet service provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of ICG Communications, Inc., (NASDAQ:ICGX) today announced that the USENET Death Penalty ("UDP") order which was to be carried out by an anti-SPAM advocacy group today at 5:00 PM, PST, was...
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Mozilla Foundation and Giganews, the world's largest Newsgroup Service Provider, announced this week that Giganews will sponsor access to the Mozilla Foundation's Usenet newsgroups hierarchy. The Mozilla Foundation is responsible for the Mozilla open source project and the popular Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email client....
With apologies to the Buggies--their not-so prophetic hit "Video Killed the Radio Star" was big in the 80s--it appears that Google may be looking to usurp or outright replace newsgroups.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 12, 1996--Prodigy Inc. continued its upgrade of the Prodigy service and its Internet offerings today with the launch of an enhanced Usenet newsgroup reader.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 10, 1995--Prodigy Services Company today unveiled an enhanced version of its popular Newsgroup Reader, which will provide PRODIGY members with faster and easier access to the Internet's USENET Newsgroups. The new release includes:
In December 1995, I wrote in this column "It began with an ominous message posted to the misc.invest.futures Usenet newsgroup: `We are here and we are watching you.' It was signed `The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC].'" That was just a portent of what was to come. But that 1995...
One of the greatest advantages of Apple's OS X operating system is its Unix core. Unix is a flexible environment that lets one get their hands dirty and solve problems when other applications fall short. The LAME encoder (http:// lame.sourceforge.net; free) is the Internet standard for quality MP3 encoding. In...
Most of the peer-to-peer overlay networks either provide a centralized way to join the network or rely on out-of-band methods for that purpose. None of them is satisfactory, since the first one relies on a single point which can fail, thus making the network vulnerable to failure and the second...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 26, 1996--Prodigy Services Co. and Microsystems Software Inc., of Framingham, Mass., today signed an agreement to offer Microsystems' Cyber Patrol Internet access management software to Prodigy members at no additional charge.
ORLANDO, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 23, 1995--Lotus Development Corp. today announced InterNotes, a new product line that integrates Lotus Notes, the industry standard groupware platform, with popular Internet applications such as the World Wide Web WWW and Usenet News. InterNotes will enable Notes users to publish Notes applications to the...
The Framers of the Constitution and the subsequent Congresses of the United States have stated that the theory of copyright protection is to provide some incentive through economic gain for a period of time to encourage authors and artists to expand the creative energy and labor needed to produce a...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG) today launched the next generation Google Groups on the 'Groups' link of the Google home page at www.google.com. This enhanced product enables users to create, manage, search and browse web-based groups, as well as subscribe to and track favorite groups. Building on the...
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