Windows Internet Naming Service. Uses NBNS (NetBIOS Name Service) to register names, resolve names, and browse the Windows network (ala Network Neighborhood).

Also the name of a New York radio station broadcasting at 1010 KHZ with an all news format. The station promises that if you give them 22 minutes they will give you the world, which would seem to be a rather grandiose claim. Previous to 1966, WINS was a music station playing rock and roll. Legendary disk jockey Murray the K was employed there at the time The Beatles were first coming to America. Before this the even more legendary Alan Freed spinned some wax here, some of which he got in trouble for during the payola scandals.

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