ATT Drops Binaries
Recently we had announced that ATT stated that they would be dropping groups from its Usenet access to customers. Apparently, ATT did not waste any time. As of Saturday morning (July 12th), users have reported that...
XBox 360 60GB Version Confirmed for August
Microsoft has finally confirmed a 60GB XBox 360 as well as a price cut for the 20GB model. The company made the official announcement on their website of a new XBox 360 with a 60GB hard drive coming in early August,...
Intel Centrino 2 Platform Launches On Monday, July 14th
As notebook shipments have begun to significantly outpace the sales of desktop computers, each new notebook platform launched by Intel becomes more important to the company. This Monday July 14 marks the launch of...
Top 10 Best Linus Trovalds Quotes
1. “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.” 2. “Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” 3. “My name is Linus, and I am your God.” 4. “See, you not only have to be a good coder...
Newsdemon welcomes Newsgroups customers from AOL and AT&T!
Apparently, AT&T and Time Warner owned AOL have decided to eliminate free usenet access for their customers. Newsdemon would like to extend a welcome to the refugees of these ISPs and offer a 15% discount to all new...
Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 10th, 2008
Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What does ARPANET stand for? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the...
Fanboy Gets A Fan
One of the most popular sources for definitions, Mirriam-Webster, has decided to include the word 'Fanboy' to the 11th Edition Collegiate Dictionary this year. Others that were considered, but eventually squashed were...
Hearing Voices Inside Your Head?
The U.S. military has been funding the deployment of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. The project, known as MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) creates "microwave auditory...
REPOST - Newsdemon Discounts Usenet for Time Warner, Verizon, Sprint
Just a reminder for ISP users that may just have found out as many newsgroups and complete Usenet access has either been removed or shut down by some providers - Newsdemon welcomes the Time Warner, Spring, and Verizon...
The Universe May Be More Squishy Than Believed
According to data from the unmanned Voyager spacecraft that was launched in 1977 that is now studying the edges of the hemisphere, it reveals that the solar system may not be a nice round shape once imagined. Instead,...
'SOS' Still Healthy and Active at 100
"SOS", the distress signal that is responsible for saving thousands of lives celebrates it's 100th birthday today. SOS is most commonly used as the international morse code as a distress sigal which contains three dots...
Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 30th, 2008
Here is today’s usenet trivia question: The father of the web, Tim Berners, announced the birth of the World Wide Web project to the Usenet community in what year? The FIRST person to reply to the following email...