23 of the top 100 sites are Google-owned
May 23, 2012
If you list the top 100 sites in the world (according to Alexa), you’ll find that 23 are owned by Google . That’s...
Has the time come for web designers to embrace the SVG image format?
May 15, 2012
Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the...
The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet
May 7, 2012
As we reported last Friday , the number of DNS root servers on the Internet has grown significantly the past few years. ...
The booming growth of Internet’s DNS infrastructure
May 4, 2012
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, the number of Internet users has doubled in the past five years . To handle...
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...
Tracing the origin of Apple’s iPhone to 1979
April 30, 2012
There’s no doubt that when the first iPhone was launched in 2007, it revolutionized not only the mobile phone industry, but the tech...
Current status of the “Browser Wars”
April 23, 2012
In this report we will examine the current status of what is often referred to as the “ Browser Wars .” How popular...
Instagram and the fastest, biggest payouts in tech startup history
April 17, 2012
Lately, the web has been abuzz with Instagram ’s billion-dollar sale to Facebook. This is an enormous amount of money for a service...
Tumblr now has 50 million blogs, 20 billion posts
April 4, 2012
Tumblr has almost doubled in size since last fall. Back in September 2011 , the blogging service hosted 28 million blogs containing a...
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...
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...
Thought experiment: An Internet where all countries are equally developed (chart & numbers)
September 30, 2011
Have you ever asked yourself, “what if?” Today, the global distribution of Internet users doesn’t really reflect how the population is distributed in...
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...
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...
Is the online tech crowd really THAT dominated by men?
May 31, 2011
Tech is generally thought of as a male-dominated field, so it’s not surprising to see that visitors to tech blogs are predominantly male....