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Dell’s Ubuntu developer ultrabook – Weekend must-read articles #15

Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option...

Pingdom is looking for guest bloggers

We’re looking for guest bloggers for this blog, and you could be one of them. If you follow the Royal Pingdom blog, you...

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...

Google Chrome OS – Weekend must-read articles #14

This week we thought you would be interested in reading about what’s been happening with Google’s Chrome OS . ...

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...

Intel’s Ivy Bridge – Weekend must-read articles #13

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

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)

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

Putting Facebook’s 900 million users into perspective (infographic)

As you may have heard, Facebook very recently passed 900 million active users . We think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s...

Current status of the “Browser Wars”

In this report we will examine the current status of what is often referred to as the “ Browser Wars .” How popular...

Weekend must-read articles #12 – IPv6

This week we thought you would be interested in reading about what’s happening with the worldwide adoption of IPv6, working up to the...