Browsing Category "General"
Top 10 Facebook winners and losers (countries)
May 14, 2012
The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall. But...
Dell’s Ubuntu developer ultrabook – Weekend must-read articles #15
May 11, 2012
Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option...
A day in the life of Pingdom – join us May 15
May 11, 2012
“Photograph what is close to you. ...
Pingdom is looking for guest bloggers
May 10, 2012
We’re looking for guest bloggers for this blog, and you could be one of them. If you follow the Royal Pingdom blog, you...
10 questions about web performance – Yannick Kunegel at Citrix
May 10, 2012
In our continuing series of interviews about web performance, we’re now joined by Yannick Kunegel, Manager, Systems Engineering – Eastern Europe, Middle East,...
Microsoft hardware design = cool?
May 9, 2012
Microsoft is not the company that comes to mind when you think about great design. Apple, perhaps, but not Microsoft. ...
All about Firewalls (Pingdom Podcast #22)
May 9, 2012
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
May 8, 2012
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
May 7, 2012
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
May 5, 2012
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
May 4, 2012
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
May 4, 2012
After our last interview with a representative of the Apache HTTP Server Project , we didn’t expect to hear so soon again from...
Google Chrome OS – Weekend must-read articles #14
May 4, 2012
This week we thought you would be interested in reading about what’s been happening with Google’s Chrome OS . ...
South Korea retains Internet speed crown with 17.5 Mbps
May 2, 2012
In January, we reported that South Korea has the fastest average Internet connection speed in the world, a position it’s commanded for many...
No US city among the 50 best-connected cities on the Internet
May 2, 2012
The United States is the “founding father” of the Internet, so it’s somewhat ironic that none of the 50 best-connected cities in the...