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The 10 most iPad-friendly countries in the world

Do you live in a country that loves Apple’s iPad? Most of us probably think we do, but we wanted to be able...

Top 10 Facebook winners and losers (countries)

The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall. But...

10 questions about web performance – Yannick Kunegel at Citrix

In our continuing  series  of interviews about web performance, we’re now joined by Yannick Kunegel, Manager, Systems Engineering – Eastern Europe, Middle East,...

All about Firewalls (Pingdom Podcast #22)

In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling , Director of Technology Services at  help AG , about security in general and firewalls...

Mobile share of web traffic in Asia has tripled since 2010

In just over two years, the share of web traffic in Asia that comes from mobile devices has almost tripled. In fact, in...

The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet

As we reported last Friday , the number of DNS root servers on the Internet has grown significantly the past few years. ...

Wolfenstein 3D turns 20, helped pioneer shareware

Today, May 5, it is 20 years since the first version of “the grandfather of 3D shooters” – Wolfenstein 3D – was released....

The booming growth of Internet’s DNS infrastructure

As we noted a couple of weeks ago, the number of Internet users has doubled in the past five years . To handle...

10 questions about web performance – Sander Temme at Apache

After our last interview with a representative of the Apache HTTP Server Project , we didn’t expect to hear so soon again from...

South Korea retains Internet speed crown with 17.5 Mbps

In January, we reported that South Korea has the fastest average Internet connection speed in the world, a position it’s commanded for many...

IE, the office browser – Used significantly less at home

We’re going to show you a chart that confirms what some of you already suspected, and Microsoft probably isn’t too happy about. A...

Tracing the origin of Apple’s iPhone to 1979

There’s no doubt that when the first iPhone was launched in 2007, it revolutionized not only the mobile phone industry, but the tech...

Web history – CERN open sourced World Wide Web today in 1993

We’ve noted many successful open source projects and products before on this blog, and the Web is arguably the  biggest one of them all...

Camera manual in 29 languages – does IKEA hold the record?

Knäppa is a recyclable camera just introduced by IKEA . It is complete with zoom (move your arms in and out) and image...

How smartphones and social networks are turning us into a collective Big Brother

George Orwell’s arguably most famous novel, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four , coined a number of phrases that are in widespread use today. One...