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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

Newsgroups Technology

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

General Technology

FCC Net Neutrality May Help USENET

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today new Net Neutrality” rules that would require carriers to deliver broadband in a non-discriminatory manner and to disclose their network management policies in a transparent manner. While the FCC is a US-only...

September 21, 2009

General Technology Usenet

Microsoft Newsgroups Announces Visual Search

Today, Seattle giant Microsoft announced on their newsgroups and website the latest feature to its Bing search engine: Visual Search. The new Visual Search feature is primarily used for when you’re shopping for products. The search function allows you to...

September 14, 2009

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Verizon Eliminates USENET Newsgroup Access

Verizon announced this week it would cease to provide newsgroup access to its customers. Verizon is the latest ISP that has dropped USENET access to its customers. Since last year, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT&T have also discontinued USENET...

September 2, 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

General Service Upgrades Technology

ThunderNews Announces New European SSL Usenet Server Launch

ThunderNews is excited to announce that we have launched our much awaited European SSL Usenet servers. The new European SSL Usenet servers offer the same newsgroup selection and retention as our regular European news servers. ThunderNews customers who subscribe to...

October 24, 2008

General Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews Offers 256 bit SSL NNTP Connections

ThunderNews is please to announce we now offer 256 bit SSL encrypted NNTP connections! SSL encrypted NNTP connections offer another level of security and privacy allowing you to safeguard your computer’s communications with our news server when browsing messages. With...

September 1, 2007