http://www.newsdemon.com/blog Newsdemon.com Newsgroups and Usenet Access Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:31:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On January 2nd, between the hours of 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM, Newsdemon.com experienced a critical error with their credit card processor which prevented successful checkout for those who had attempted to pay via Credit Card. We at Newsdemon.com have since repaired this issue, and we are happy to report that ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2009/01/02/newsdemon-credit-card-outtage-fixed/ Recently, NewsDemon.com's Usenet Newsgroups had made several retention upgrades.  We had been waiting on these upgrades for some time now and we were happy to finally be able to pass the extra days along to our customers. Now, we are getting customers who have seen that several of our competitors are ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2009/01/01/whats-the-deal-with-usenet-newsgroups-retention/ Google Earth is fantastic, but this might be its most amazing feat yet: A scientist stumbled across an unknown green patch that turned out to be an unexplored forest home to brand new undiscovered species. Julian Bayliss was looking around Google Earth for a new conservation project when he came across ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/22/google-earth-makes-discovery-possible/ Newsdemon.com is currently offering new members 10% Off on any price plan. From December 19th through January 1st, customers who purchase any of the available price plans ranging from $8.99 tp $22.99 will receive an additional 10% off! This holiday promotion is only available for a limited time. In order for ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/19/newsdemoncom-10-off-discount-coupon-limited-time-offer/ In an ongoing battle to give users the most privacy, Yahoo has set their data retention threshold at 90 days. This means that "Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations. Yahoo! will also expand the policy to apply not ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/18/yahoo-lowers-data-retention-promotes-privacy/ Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, as it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/16/thoughts-now-available-in-technicolor/ [caption id="attachment_235" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Microsoft Thumbstack"][/caption] Microsoft’s Live Labs has just released Thumbtack, a web clipping service that allows users to compile links, media, and text snippets into online storage bins for future reference. Users can also share their Thumbtack collections with their peers, allowing them to collaborate by adding new ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/11/microsoft-sits-on-thumbstack/ Once again, Newsdemon.com has announced yet another increase in retention in less than a month! Newsdemon.com members can now access over binaries over 175 days old. The 175 day binary retention is now available to both US and EU members. Newdemon.com had previously announced a 70% increase on binary retenion ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/05/newsdemon-now-reaches-175-day-retention-on-binaries/ In the month of October, Newsdemon.com gave away a free T-shirt for all new members who had signed up for the unlimited plan. Newsdemon.com is proud to announce that all T-shirt requests that were made for EU and Canada customers have been shipped out and should be arriving shortly. We hope ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/03/newsdemoncom-t-shirt-giveaway-update/ 2008 has been an exciting year for a number of reasons. We've witnessed moments that will be recorded boldly in history and those we'd soon rather forget. From Politics to Entertianment, people and events kept much of the 2008 year busy. Many Newsgroups saw a great spike in attendance that ... http://www.newsdemon.com/blog/2008/12/03/yahoo-top-10-search-newsdemoncom-review/