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...
IRC is dead, long live IRC
April 24, 2012
IRC ( Internet Relay Chat ) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms. ...
It’s time to (finally) kill the SIM card
March 28, 2012
For everyone who has a GSM mobile phone, the SIM card has become a way of life, or at least a way of...
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 burger and the QR code – a tale of lunch and disappointment
January 24, 2012
Have you ever scanned a QR code? If you have, did you get a discount on something? Did it reveal some cool information?...
DNSSEC gains traction – Q&A about why you should care
January 4, 2012
Swedish hosting provider Binero has announced that it has DNSSEC -signed all of its customers’ .se domains. This brings the total amount of...
10 inventors of Internet technologies you may not have heard of
November 14, 2011
Since it was Father’s Day here in Sweden yesterday – yes we know it varies around the world – we thought we’d pay...
How amazingly fast our tech habits change
November 10, 2011
It’s interesting how quickly we humans start taking things for granted. In a fast-moving landscape like technology, especially IT, this becomes all the...
Why Spotify’s 1 million paying subscribers is an amazing feat
March 9, 2011
This week, Spotify announced that it’s reached a big milestone: One million paying subscribers (out of a total of nearly 7 million active...
U.S. Pursuing WikiLeaks
December 23, 2010
The founder of WikiLeaks recently stated the United States is aggressively tracking his organization under a secret and illegal investigation prompted by U.S....
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart)
November 30, 2010
Where do you think Apple’s iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia’s Symbian phones dominate? ...
State of the Internet in Europe
September 17, 2010
In July we had a look at the worldwide state of the Internet . Now the time has come for something a bit...
Revealed: Google’s new mega data center in Finland
September 15, 2010
Last year, Google bought an old paper mill in Finland. Now the company is in the process of converting that paper mill into...
The popularity of Firefox around the world
August 18, 2010
Although the growth of Firefox has stagnated a bit lately due to the increasing competition from rival browsers, it’s still one of the...
Where jailbreaking iPhones is most common
June 3, 2010
A significant number of iPhone owners have chosen to circumvent Apple’s default iPhone OS installation with a hacked version that lets them install...