Amazing solution to the iPhone 4 antenna problem
Posted in Main on July 23rd, 2010 by Pingdom
Not to beat a dead horse, but why didn’t Apple think of this…? 
No news is good news for the Super Bowl website
Posted in Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
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.
Are you ready for Super Bowl 46? You watch the game, we watch the site
Posted in Main on February 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.
What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.
Weekend must-read articles #2
Posted in Main on February 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.
Uptime and performance of US e-commerce websites during December 2011 (study)
Posted in Main on February 2nd, 2012 by Pingdom
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.
Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.
We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.
Pingdom Podcast #5
Posted in Main, Mobile podcast on February 2nd, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.
Daniel Howard
July 28th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Oh, its not real? It should be.
Robert Storms
July 30th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Where do I buy this case?!
The worst thing about carrying an iPhone is
1. The gawkers… those clueless about the iPhone, asking, “Hey, is that one of those with the antenna problem?”
2. Snarky Droid/Crackberry owners: “Hey, is that one of those with the antenna problem?”
3. Jerks… “Look, he’s got one of them iPhones with the antenna problems. Hey! Can youse hear me now?!”
With this disguise, you can use and enjoy your iPhone in peace.
Sid Vernet
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:22 am
It’s really crazy that people still want iphone 4 while they know the problem with the atenna is really serious
Irlenne Laricchia
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I just loved Robert’s posting. Still laughing.
The smartest Tech Guide
August 18th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
lol a really original and simple solution that should definitely solve the antenna problem
Funny post though
Brandon
August 29th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
*yawn* my iphone 4 works great and I’ve never had an antenna problem. Seems like just a topic for everyone that dislikes apple so much to talk about. A friend with blackberry can reproduce the antenna issue as well. If you’re looking for a problem, you’ll always be able to find one.
For 200$ each, my iphones have been the best phone I’ve ever had.
2G, 3G and now the 4.
Nothing else compares to the size and amount of phone they fit in it.