Cool and creative anti-SOPA blackout messages – Internet protest in action
Just in case you managed to miss it, it’s January 18 today, and countless of websites show their support for the fight against the controversial SOPA legislation in the U.S. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill in the U.S
Top 10 new gadgets at CES 2012 – smartphones, tablets and TVs
No, we didn’t go to CES this year, but we’ve followed the action from Las Vegas from afar with great interest.
Visualizing mobile phone penetration per country 1991-2010 (animation)
In December, we looked at how the Internet has spread across the world from 1991 to 2010. We presented this in the form of an animation, highlighting each country in different colors depending in what percentages of the population were online.
Pingdom Mobile Podcast #2
Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff. In this show we covered the following topics: Start 0:10 Welcome Dell plans to launch tablet by the end of 2012 RIM Improves BlackBerry PlayBook With 2.0 Upgrade The iPhone turns 5: Evolution of a game-changer Start 16:25 Erik Pettersson of Improove.se joins us to talk about his mashup of Google Analytics and Pingdom
Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In that article, based on figures from Netcraft’s Web Server Survey , we looked at the data for “active sites.” NGINX had in that category pulled ahead of IIS for the first time, even though it was by a slim margin.
How Apple reinvented the laptop
Apple is often referred to as a design leader. Since Steve Jobs came back and took over the company in 1997, the focus and inventiveness shown by Apple’s industrial design team has been remarkable. Apple’s design prowess has greatly influenced the evolution of the common laptop over the past 10+ years.
Global tablet sales in 2011 – Forecasts versus actual sales
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will officially kick off in Las Vegas tomorrow. One thing we know for sure is that tablets will be one of the hottest types of gadgets in this year’s show. That’s evident already from the pre-show coverage: there’s everything from Toshiba’s “ thinnest and lightest ” tablet to a “waterproof” LTE Android tablet .
