Technology - ThunderNews

Apple Hard Drive Restrictions Affect USENET DIY Enthusiasts

Reported on Apple and Mac related newsgroups, Apple has been accused of locking down its latest range of iMacs, making them difficult to fix or upgrade. Since Late 2009, there’s been a well-documented issue with the iMac line. If you...

May 17, 2011

General Newsgroups Technology

1000 Day Article Retention Now Available From ThunderNews

ThunderNews.com has reached a new benchmark in USENET by incrementing retention to 1000 days. Still growing day by day, the increase to 1000 days in retention is available to all members of ThunderNews.com. All new and existing members of ThunderNews.com...

May 12, 2011

Technology Usenet

Canada USENET Newsgroup Subscribers Speed Target

Canada’s federal telecommunications regulator set an ambitious target for Internet service expansion on Tuesday that could affect USENET newsgroup subscribers. Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, expects all Canadians to have access to broadband internet speeds of...

May 5, 2011

General Member News Newsgroups Technology Usenet

DSLReports USENET Forum Compromised?

As a popular destination for many that are involved with USENET, DSLReports.com has long been a haven to discuss news and information in their dedicated newsgroups online forums. If you are one of them, you may want to take another...

April 29, 2011

General Technology Usenet

Online Dating Site Includes Background Screening

Long before the explosion of internet dating sites, USENET newsgroups had long been a home of “single and looking” individuals that had been looking for a love connection on their dial up connection. The hit or miss ratio not only...

April 25, 2011

General Technology Usenet

Virgin To Offer 1.5GB Connections

Virgin Media plans to start trialling broadband cable connections of up to 1.5Gbps with four businesses in the area of east London known as Silicon Roundabout allowing for one of the fastest access to USENET. The company said it planned...

April 21, 2011

Technology Usenet

USENET Freedom Highest in US and UK

Cyber attacks, politically motivated censorship and government control are among the threats to internet freedom, according to a study found on USENET newsgroups. The “Freedom on the Net 2011: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media” study was released...

April 19, 2011

General Newsgroups Technology

AT&T Imposes Download Cap In May

AT&T today rolled out major change to its DSL terms of service, notifying its customers of new data caps, network management rules, and usage metering tools. Here’s why the caps are coming: AT&T has experienced a dramatic increase in...

April 11, 2011

General Technology

ARPANET Founder Paul Baron Goes Offline

Internet pioneer Paul Baran has died at his home in Palo Alto, Calif., of lung cancer, his son David said. He was 84 In 1961, engineer Paul Baran sold a communications method called “packet switching” to the U.S. Department of...

March 28, 2011

Technology Uncategorized Usenet

Twitter Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary

Today in 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent off the very first tweet, an unimpressive message that read “just setting up my twttr.” It was not until much later when it hit USENET newsgroup subscribers and the web that it...

March 22, 2011