Not Everyone Is On USENET
As shocking as it may seem, fifteen percent of adults in the United States are not online or have USENET access, for reasons that range from lack of interest to fear of the unknown to not being able to afford...
Universal Chargers May Help USENET Users
Today in international tech news: A European Parliament committee wants to mandate uniform electronic chargers — or, put differently, it wants Apple to cooperate. How many times have you been traveling around the globe with your mobile devices like a...
Access USENET Faster From The Sky
Are you already part of the mile-high-usenet club? It should be easier to get in now. Faster in-flight WiFi is coming! Eventually. To Virgin America’s fleet thanks to a new solution unveiled by Gogo. The system, called Ground to Orbit...
New Hard Drives In The Horizon With 5TB to 20TB Capacities
The need to conserve space may be a thing of the past for heavy-duty USENET users. Seagate on Monday announced it has shipped over 1 million hard disk drives (HDDs) using shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. According to Seagate, SMR...
Latest Windows 8.1 Leak Reported On USENET Reveals New Features
Microsoft announced the finalization of its Windows 8.1 update today which made it to USENET newsgroups, and after several hours the final build has made its way online. Several file sharing sites have copies of the Windows 8.1 update nearly...
USENET Accessibility On The Rise In The US
According to some USENET newsgroup posts, U.S. adoption of high-speed broadband connections in homes has reached an all-time high of 70% according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The survey was taken in May and is...
ThunderNews Now Offers Over 5 Years Of Article Retention
A recent upgrade to the Thundernews servers has now allowed us to offer all of our customers a tremendous increase in retention to over 1830 days for all USENET newsgroups. The increase in retention is yet another featured upgrade to...
Google Goes Down, USENET Stays Up
Worldwide Internet traffic reportedly plunged by about 40 percent Friday night, when many of the tech titan’s services, including its trademark search engine, went dark for between 1 and 5 minutes, according to USENET newsgroup reports. The outage, which reportedly...
