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...
Do you feel bad when you don’t log in to Facebook regularly?
March 7, 2012
Call it Facebook Addiction Disorder , Facebook Anxiety Disorder , Facebook depression , or Facebook unhappiness , we have all heard of issues of...
The single-atom transistor is here – the amazing evolution of microprocessors (infographic)
February 29, 2012
A team of researchers in Australia has managed to create a transistor that is the size of an atom . That’s the smallest...
Nokia and Symbian still on top of the mobile web, but for how long?
February 22, 2012
Perceptions matter, and the perception of Nokia in the news, on the web, and in the minds of many, is that things aren’t...
Almost 8 new Internet users added worldwide every second (infographic)
February 16, 2012
By some measures , more than 7 billion people now inhabit the world, and more than a third of us are on the...
Almost 8 new Internet users added worldwide every second (infographic)
February 16, 2012
By some measures , more than 7 billion people now inhabit the world, and more than a third of us are on the...
Uptime and performance of US e-commerce websites during December 2011 (study)
February 2, 2012
Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December....
Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
January 11, 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking...
Global tablet sales in 2011 – Forecasts versus actual sales
January 9, 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will officially kick off in Las Vegas tomorrow. One thing we know for sure is that tablets will...
Security in 2011 by the numbers
December 30, 2011
As 2011 draws to a close we wanted to take a look at computer and information security in the twelve months that have...
Visualizing Internet penetration per country 1991-2010 (animation)
December 27, 2011
With an estimated 2 billion Internet users as of March 2011, about a third of the world’s population is online. That still leaves...
Comparing the efficiency of Chrome’s and Firefox’s automated updates (study)
December 6, 2011
Two web browsers currently use a rapid release schedule combined with automated updates. Chrome has had it from the start, and Firefox started...
NGINX skyrockets 300% in one year: Q&A with the team behind the web server software
December 1, 2011
Apache is still the undisputed king of web server software but according to the latest Netcraft Web Server Survey from November 2011, NGINX...
Smartphone boom predicted in the Middle East
November 30, 2011
The Middle East is perhaps not what many people think of as one of the hottest telecom market in the world but new...
Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic
November 17, 2011
There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Apple’s iPad is the biggest seller in the tablet space, but we have seen...