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ThunderNews.com Features Increase To 50 Simultaneous Connections and 570 Days Retention

ThunderNews.com now offers 570 days of retention on binaries alongside 50 lightning fast simultaneous connections, providing better service to members without any increase in price. With recent storage upgrades, ThunderNews.com is proud to be able to offer members the benefits...

March 25, 2010

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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

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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

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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

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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

General Technology Usenet

FCC Broadband Plan May Effect USENET Access For Some

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday laid out a rough draft of its national broadband plan after weighing through 66,000 pages of written comments, 27 public notices, 100 items posted on its “blogband” web site, and 700 blog comments posted...

December 17, 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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CERN Hadron Collider Back Online Causes Newsgroup Spike

Science, Physics, Chemistry, Astrological and even more themed newsgroups are all about the Hadron Collider again. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, designed to recreate the Big Bang of the universe, has been restarted after more than a year of...

November 24, 2009