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...
IE, the office browser – Used significantly less at home
May 1, 2012
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
April 30, 2012
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
April 30, 2012
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?
April 29, 2012
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
April 27, 2012
George Orwell’s arguably most famous novel, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four , coined a number of phrases that are in widespread use today. One...
Intel’s Ivy Bridge – Weekend must-read articles #13
April 27, 2012
This week we thought you would be interested in reading about the latest processors from Intel called Ivy Bridge . Every Friday we...
10 questions about web performance – James Ward at Heroku
April 26, 2012
In this continuing series of interviews about web performance, we now turn to cloud application platform provider Heroku . ...
How to secure your Google Drive with TrueCrypt (Pingdom Podcast #21)
April 26, 2012
In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling , Director of Technology Services at help AG , about security in general and Google...
WordPress Theme – Woody
April 26, 2012
Say hello to the brand new free WordPress theme – Woody. This theme comes with six color schemes – Blue, Black, Green, Maroon, Orange...
Putting Facebook’s 900 million users into perspective (infographic)
April 25, 2012
As you may have heard, Facebook very recently passed 900 million active users . We think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s...
Did you have Pingdom monitoring on the WWDC site? These guys did!
April 25, 2012
We hope you had Pingdom monitoring for WWDC tickets, as Apple just opened up this year’s ticket sales . ...
Instagram sharing on Twitter is blowing up
April 25, 2012
Instagram is one of those crazy success stories, an app and social network that has grown tremendously fast. If you’ve noticed an increase...
Google Drive is finally live
April 24, 2012
Google’s Dropbox competitor is finally here. At 09:30 am PST, we detected that the drive.google.com website went live. ...
IRC is dead, long live IRC
April 24, 2012
IRC ( Internet Relay Chat ) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms. ...