We recently released our new Pingdom iPhone application which lets you view the current status of your checks on your iPhone as well as view some of the configuration settings and statistics for the last 30 days.

Unfortunately there were some bugs in our first version of the application. We tried to fix the most important ones quickly, most notable a bug that made the application crash at certain times. This is version 1.1 that is available in the App Store right now.

We have now finished version 1.2 which contains some more fixes, such as:

• Progress indicator when logging in and when loading data. Sometimes it can take a few seconds to log in since we have to load all the check information, the progress indicator will be displayed during this time to make it clear that the application hasn’t crashed but is loading data.
• Checks that are paused in Pingdom are now being displayed with a paused icon in the iPhone application.
• Checks that were just created in Pingdom was mistakenly displayed as down in the application until the first check was performed by our servers. They are now being displayed without an icon until the first status is received.
• The keyboard layouts for the email and password inputs during sign in has been changed. The previous keyboards were missing some characters that are commonly used in passwords.

Version 1.2 is not yet available for download, but it was uploaded to the App Store some days ago and is currently marked as “In review” by Apple. Hopefully it should be approved any day now.

We hope that by this new release we have managed to fix all critical bugs and interface issues and can start to focus on adding more features instead. If you have found a bug or have any suggestions for features that you would like to see, let us know about it in the comments.

Here is the link to the Pingdom iPhone app at the App Store.

There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.

So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.

Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.

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For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.

Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.

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As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.

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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.

But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.

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The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.

As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.

It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.

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