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FCC Releases Mobile Usenet Access Speed Tester

The mobile version of the Consumer Broadband Test is available in the Apple iPhone App Store and the Android App Market. Using this tool alongside your portable newsreader can help determine and tweak Usenet access speeds.

March 12, 2010

General Newsgroups Usenet

Survey Says: Online Newsgroups Popular Platform For News

If you’re like us, you catch up on news in multiple ways – thru TV, mobile, web and of course, Usenet newsgroups. If you are, then you are also one of today’s archetypal news consumers, according to a new study...

March 1, 2010

General Science Technology Usenet

Experts Claim Usenet Newsgroups Make You Smarter

Most experts agree that the Internet and USENET won’t make us stupid. Now there is proof. USENET newsgroups report that a good 76% of technology stakeholders and critics interviewed by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and...

February 22, 2010

General Technology Usenet

Google Soon To Begin Offering High Speed Fiber Connections

Online goliath Google has been keeping busy as it has recently turned its versatile hand to mobile operating systems (Android) social networking (Buzz) and smartphones (Nexus One). According to Google, it will soon build and test an ultra-high-speed broadband platform...

February 11, 2010

General Technology

Netflix Leads Newsgroup Inquiry on Comcast-NBC Merger

Netflix, the Web’s hottest video service, is voicing the worry that many media related newsgroups have that bandwidth providers could abuse their position as the gatekeepers of Internet access and purposely damage competing Web-video distributors. With a strong voice coming...

February 8, 2010

General Technology

LTE Technology Brings Faster Wireless Broadband Speeds

The Long Term Evolution wireless broadband technology which initially boasted speeds of 20-80Mbps is expanding to new markets. The technology which benefits mostly mobile devices has been reported be different newsgroups of having mixed end results in speeds depending on...

January 28, 2010

General Technology

Apple iPad Tablet To Support Newsreader?

Although Apple has never confirmed that such a device is in the works, many Apple/Mac newsgroups agree that the Apple Tablet is imminent. Steve Jobs has recently been overheard and quoted as stating that the Apple Tablet may be the...

January 25, 2010

General Newsgroups Technology

Microsoft, AT&T And Tivo Learning To Place Nicely

Microsoft is one of the most active topics on newsgroups at the moment. For a number of stories, but the latest is that they've filed a suit late Tuesday against TiVo in a San Francisco federal court, claiming that the...

January 20, 2010

General Newsgroups People

Music Newsgroups Report On Labels Price-Fixing Case

The court case accused the music label defendants of conspiring to fix prices and limit the availability of downloaded music in violation of the Sherman Act; a federal antitrust law.

January 13, 2010

General Newsgroups

ThunderNews Happy New Year

A Happy New Year from all of us at ThunderNews.com. We wish you a safe, happy and healthy 2010! We look forward to you continuing to visit ThunderNews.com for all USENET and Newsgroup news and information.

December 31, 2009