Pingdom Mobile podcast #1
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 Happy new year Start 21:00 The mobile web in numbers Symbian is still top mobile OS Apple’s App Store generates 6x the revenue of Android Market in the US Start 41:35 Ice Cream Sandwich & General Android post-ICS? End of Fragmentation?
Web server software NGINX is now bigger than Microsoft IIS
In the latest Netcraft Web Server, for January 2012 , the lightweight open source web server software NGINX amassed more active sites than Microsoft Internet Information Server for the first time. That makes NGINX the second most used web server software in the world right now, only trumped by Apache . Let’s look at the numbers
10 Kodak cameras that showcase the company’s rich history (pictures)
Yesterday reports started circulating that Eastman Kodak Co . is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy protection. The company, which was founded in 1892 , is just about synonymous with photography, and has been immortalized in popular culture in countless ways
DNSSEC gains traction – Q&A about why you should care
Swedish hosting provider Binero has announced that it has DNSSEC -signed all of its customers’ .se domains. This brings the total amount of signed .se domains to more than 100,000 from the previous total of 5,000. “Nearly one in ten Swedish domains are now validated against attacks with manipulated dns-information, like phishing,” Binero’s press release said.
After 20 years, is QuickTime still relevant for the web?
On December 2, 1991, Apple released the first version of QuickTime . Back then, QuickTime was at the forefront of bringing video to personal computers, and it has, without a doubt, had a tremendous impact on personal computing, multimedia, and the Internet since its introduction. But in the twenty years since then a lot has happened, and the question is what is the relevance of QuickTime today in a web- and mobile-centric world
There was less text messaging this Holiday Season, but not everywhere
Earlier this year we noted that over 6 trillion text messages were sent in 2010, a rise of 41% compared to the year before. The growth may have been declining – SMS saw a 53% increase from 2008 to 2009 – but SMS and MMS are still going strong.
Security in 2011 by the numbers
As 2011 draws to a close we wanted to take a look at computer and information security in the twelve months that have passed. What will probably stick in most people’s minds is the Sony PlayStation Network and Qriocity hack, which resulted in an outage lasting 23 days
Symbian is still top mobile OS – finished 2011 with resurgence
As we’re quickly approaching the end of 2011 we take a last look at what the year for mobile operating systems was like. Would it surprise you to know that Symbian finished 2011 stronger than it started the year
