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		<title>Wave Goodbye As Newsgroup Clone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Wave truly promised a lot when it first came about. Attempting to copy many of the attributes of Usenet newsgroups and a year of beta servicing later, Google Wave launched only to find that nobody noticed. Google’s experiment to reinvent email apparently failed. However, while Google has conceded defeat and have noted that Wave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Oxford English Dictionary Goes Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who can forget flipping through pages of the Oxford English Dictionary looking for that one elusive word. Looks like the venerable dictionary itself become elusive. Reason? Just as many on Usenet predicted, the publishers of the iconic tome are mulling ending the publication of the printed version due to its low sales in tandem with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=260</link>
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		<title>Phone Calls From Gmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been rumored, and now it&#8217;s here: Google&#8217;s implemented direct computer-to-phone calling from within its Gmail service. It&#8217;s a small change, but it makes Google Voice more powerful, and challenges the existing phone industry. Google just revealed the news on its official blog, with the disarming and charmingly low-key line &#8220;we thought &#8216;wouldn&#8217;t it be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=256</link>
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		<title>Newsgroups: Seuss Invented Nerds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newsgroup discussions today research and found the origin of one of the most commonly used terms to describe hardcore techies: NERD. The first documented use of the word Nerd is in the 1950 Dr. Seuss story, If I Ran the Zoo, in which a boy named Gerald McGrew made a large number of delightfully extravagant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=254</link>
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		<title>Google CEO: Hide Cyber Past By Changing Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted on to search engine related newsgroups, new articles of Eric Schmidt have made a rather astounding assertion. He said that in the future young people should have the right to change their name legally in order to escape association with unwise things they may have said or done online in their youth. &#8220;I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Government Controled Broadband Hits Roadblock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Americans are not in favor for the government to prioritize affordable high-speed Internet access, based on a study publicized by the Pew Internet &#38; American Life Project on Wednesday. Pew researchers asked 2,252 adults in a national phone survey if increasing broadband access’ affordability to everybody in the nation should be a main concern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=249</link>
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		<title>FCC Going For Wirelss Broadband Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. regulators proposed easing restrictions on satellite companies in a move aimed at freeing more airwaves to feed the growing demand for wireless broadband services. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to seek comment on a plan to let satellite companies partner with other business seeking to build land-based networks or to lease [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Summer Solsice Begins On Usenet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Large on the minds of those on Usenet is the beginning of Summer. June 21, 2010 is the Summer Solstice in the parts north of the equator which is the longest day in terms of daytlight. Although many consider June 1st as the start of summer, the solstice marks the official meteorological start of summer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Starbucks To Begin Offering Free Wi-Fi Access To Usenet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have some Usenet with that Frappuccino you&#8217;re drinking? You can now. Starbucks will begin offering free Wi-Fi in July, allowing you the option and convenience to access newsgroups with any purchase. The service will be offered through AT&#38;T Inc., but will no longer require a Starbucks loyalty card, which entitled registered customers to two free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Woman Sues The Internet For Accident</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we move into more dependence into the online world, there are casualties that can happen. A Utah woman is suing the search engine Google, claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway, where she was struck by a car. The lawsuit seeks more than $100,000 in damages. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigerusenet.com/blog/?p=237</link>
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