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Newsgroups: Top Tech of 2009

Technology certainly delivered a shock and awe campaign thru the year. With both new and upgraded version of tech unveiled, 2009 saw some real greats as well as some questionable applications and hardware. A great source to find out about...

December 30, 2009

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ThunderNews extends USENET Status Updates to Social Networks

ThunderNews.com, a leading provider of Usenet, has announced today that it will extend its support and status updates to include Facebook and Twitter. The two social networks will provide an additional channel to communicate to members as well as offer...

December 11, 2009

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AT&T May Want More Money To Access Newsgroups

Moving closer to charging special rates for data usage, AT&T is looking to charge more to access data. Especially concerning accessing USENET newsgroups on the go, the plan can have some damaging affects for some subscribers.

December 9, 2009

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Verizon Offers Free High-Speed DSL For 6 Months

The ISP is offering big incentives toonline users who make a switch to Verizon’s High Speed Internet. Verizon plans to offer free DSL to its customers during the holiday season.

November 17, 2009

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Newsgroups: Net Neutrality Now!

The Federal Communications Commission last Thursday approved controversial proposed rules governing internet access during its monthly public meeting. Commissioners on all sides of the debate stressed the importance of having an open internet, and in engaging in constructive dialogue on...

November 2, 2009

Newsgroups Technology Usenet

New Finland Law: Broadband Access To Everyone

According to broadband newsgroups, the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Helsinki has pushed through a law that will force telecommunications providers to offer high speed internet connections to all of the country’s 5.5 million citizens. Starting July 2010, Finland’s...

October 14, 2009

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T-Mobile Newsgroups: Sidekick Data May Be Permanently Lost

T-Mobile is blaming Microsoft subsidiary Danger, for a massive data loss issue for users of its Sidekick data service. Microsoft bought Danger in February of 2008 for around $500M, for Danger's Sidekick applications and services.

October 12, 2009

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O2 UK ISP Begins to Throttle USENET Newsgroups

If you’re in the UK and are a broadband customer of the 02 ISP, you may experience slower speeds during peak hours. O2 has announced that they will begin to throttle certain ports and protocols from 8-11pm to address bandwidth...

October 6, 2009

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Google Newsgroups: Gmail Fail

Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, said its e-mail program is working again after the second disruption in less than a month cut off service to some users. The latest outage from a company that...

September 24, 2009

Newsgroups Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews Announces 400 Days Retention

ThunderNews.com is excited to announce binary retention is spooling to 400 days! This doubles our previous spooling capacity! Presently, our binary article retention has increased to 275 days with about 200 days of headers. At the present size of the...

May 19, 2009