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Giganews, Inc.
Private
Founded1998 in Austin, Texas
HeadquartersAustin, Texas
IndustryTelecommunications
ProductsUsenet
Websitewww.giganews.com


Giganews, Inc is a popular Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1998, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include Comcast, BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.

According to www.top1000.org, the combined weight of Giganews' servers makes Giganews the most peered Usenet server currently online.

Starting in early 2006, the Mozilla Foundation’s newsgroup hierarchy was sponsored by Giganews.

Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia as well as AMS-IX and NL-IX in The Netherlands.

In the summer of 2005, Giganews provided open Usenet access to attendees of the What The Hack conference in The Netherlands.

Article retention in binary groups is being increased to 200 days over the summer of 2007. [1].

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The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways—first, referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations; and second, referring to ownership of the company's stock by a relatively small number of holders who do not trade
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Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII
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City of Austin

Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World[1]
Location in the state of Texas
Coordinates:
Country United States
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State of Texas

Flag of Texas Seal
Nickname(s): Lone Star State
Motto(s): Friendship.
Before Statehood Known as
The Republic of Texas

Official language(s) No official language

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City of Austin

Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World[1]
Location in the state of Texas
Coordinates:
Country United States
State
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State of Texas

Flag of Texas Seal
Nickname(s): Lone Star State
Motto(s): Friendship.
Before Statehood Known as
The Republic of Texas

Official language(s) No official language

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Industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent, industrious"), is the segment of economy concerned with production of goods. Industry began in its present form during the 1800s, aided by technological advances, and it has continued to develop to this day.
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Aspinwall Classification System (Leo Aspinwall, 1958) classifies and rates products based on five variables:
  1. Replacement rate (How frequently is the product repurchased?)
  2. Gross margin (How much profit is obtained from each product?)

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Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979.
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A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN.
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Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979.
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A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. The term is somewhat confusing, because it is usually a discussion group.
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The subscription business model is a business model that was pioneered by magazines and newspapers, but is now used by many businesses and websites. Rather than selling products individually, a subscription sells periodic (monthly or yearly or seasonal) use or access to a product
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Outsourced is a modern day comedy of cross-cultural conflict and romance, directed by John Jeffcoat, released in 2007.
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Internet service provider (abbr. ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a business or organization that provides consumers or businesses access to the Internet and related services. In the past, most ISPs were run by the phone companies.
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high-speed Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data transmission. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more is considered broadband Internet. The International Telecommunication Union Standardization Sector (ITU-T) recommendation I.
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Comcast Corporation

Public (NASDAQ:  CMCSA )
Founded 1963 in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Key people Brian L.
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BT Group plc

Public (LSE:  BT.A
NYSE:  BT )
Founded 1 October 1981 (as British Telecommunications)
Headquarters London, England, UK

Key people Sir Michael Rake, Chairman
Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive
Area served United Kingdom
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WOW!

Private
Founded 1999
Headquarters Denver, Colorado, USA

Key people Colleen Abdoulah
Industry Telecommunications
Products Cablecasting, Broadband Internet, Phone
Revenue Unknown
Net income Unknown
Employees Unknown
Website www.wowway.
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KCOM Group PLC

Public (LSE:  KCOM )
Founded Originated 1882, floated as PLC 1999
Headquarters Kingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom

Key people Malcolm Fallen, Chief Executive Officer
Michael Abrahams CBE, Chairman (non-executive)
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Mozilla Foundation

Logo of the Mozilla Foundation
(the Mozilla mascot)

Founder Mozilla Organization

Type 501(c)(3)
Founded July 15, 2003
Headquarters Mountain View, CA
Origins Mozilla Organization
Products Mozilla Firefox
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Peering is voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for
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Equinix, Inc.

Public (NASDAQ: EQIX )
Founded 1998
Headquarters Foster City, CA, USA

Key people Jay Adelson, Founder
Industry Internet
Products Data Centers
Revenue $286.9 million USD (2006)
Employees 509 (est) (2004)
Website www.equinix.
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Ashburn, Virginia is an unincorporated area located in Loudoun County, Virginia, 30 miles west of Washington, D.C., and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The area serves as headquarters for the internet service provider Verizon Business, Old Dominion Brewing Company,
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Loudoun County (pronounced "LOUD-un"; IPA: ['laʊdn̩]) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area.
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Commonwealth of Virginia

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Nickname(s): Old Dominion, Mother of Presidents
Motto(s): Sic semper tyrannis

Official language(s) English

Capital Richmond
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Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. AMS-IX is a fast growing, non-profit, neutral and independent peering point. The beginnings of the AMS-IX can be traced back to the early 1990s.
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
Anthem
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What The Hack was an outdoor hacker conference held in Liempde, The Netherlands between the 28th and 31st of July, 2005. It has been the most recent event in a sequence that began with the Galactic Hacker Party in 1989, followed by Hacking at the End of the Universe in
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