Huge Internet milestone just around the corner: 100 million registered .COM domain names
October 19, 2011
The Internet’s favorite top-level domain is close to hitting a huge milestone. The .com domain is now on the brink of reaching 100...
Windows 7 just became the most widely used desktop OS in the world
October 12, 2011
In October, Windows 7 usage has for the first time surpassed Windows XP usage globally according to statistics from StatCounter . In other...
Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004
October 5, 2011
At the recent F8 conference Facebook revealed that they now have 800 million active users . Europe, with Russia included, has a population...
Pingdom in numbers: 37 billion site tests so far this year
September 23, 2011
Our server infrastructure has a lot of work to do, it’s quite a busy bee. ...
How many millions will this add to Google+?
September 21, 2011
It’s always interesting when Google decides to push something on their main property, the Google search page. ...
A visual of the rise and fall of domain tasting
August 31, 2011
Remember domain tasting ? At its worst, millions of domain names were yanked up and dropped every day in this rather nasty scheme...
How big can China get on the Internet? Here are some mind-blowing numbers.
August 23, 2011
China is not only the largest nation on the planet, these days it’s also by far the largest on the Internet (which wasn’t...
The irony of ad-sponsored apps
August 18, 2011
Here’s a thought, or rather a theory, that we’d love to run by you. It starts with a little piece of irony. Most...
Why Google+ is great news even if you don’t use it
August 16, 2011
Google’s new social network, Google+ , is gaining users at a frenetic pace. Presumably people are signing up for it faster than any...
The diversification of Apple
June 13, 2011
First there was the Mac line of computers, then Apple added the iPod, then the iPhone, and little over a year ago, the...
Sneak preview of the new Pingdom HQ
June 9, 2011
We posted this in the Pingdom blog but thought that you regular readers of Royal Pingdom might also enjoy it, so here it...
Skype outages highlight Microsoft’s poor online karma
June 8, 2011
Microsoft is one of the largest and most profitable tech companies in the world, but sometimes we can’t help but feel a bit...
Facebook gobbles up anti-Facebook domain names
May 26, 2011
Protecting one’s brand is pretty much standard practice for large online properties like Facebook . As a result, the social network giant now...
Apple staff raking in the cash: $419,528 profit per head
May 17, 2011
Apple earned a massive profit of $419,528 per employee in the past 12 months. That beats Google, Microsoft, Intel and a bunch of...
More than 246 million Android devices this time next year?
May 11, 2011
According to Google, there are currently 100 million activated Android devices , and the user base is growing by leaps and bounds. Each...