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Yeah, we know, Apple is the hot thing right now and WWDC is the party you want to go to. But tickets to WWDC sold out in 8 days in 2010 and in less than 12 hours in 2011. Obviously, it’s critical that you get online just as soon as Apple has released the tickets.
That’s where Pingdom monitoring comes in, and here’s how you do it.
In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services at help AG, about security. The topics we cover include that around 700,000 Macs have been struck by a trojan, a survey says that using a computer without security software is seen as riskier than leaving the door to one’s home or car unlocked, and the FBI says that smart meter hacks are likely to spread.
Every time Apple releases a new product, we get to see how skilled they are as marketers. For every new iPhone that Apple has launched, the company has told a new story to sell it to us, something it has pushed a little bit extra when advertising the new product, especially in TV commercials.
For example, the iPhone 4S marketing wasn’t so much about the improved camera, or iCloud. Instead Siri stole the show, the wonder of having your own little virtual assistant right there in your pocket…
In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services help AG, about security. We cover the fact that the Internet didn’t stop working a few days ago when Anonymous was supposed to take down the root DNS servers, how the Github community was up in arms over a security flaw and how it was dealt with, new Android malware, and how you can be tracked across websites.
In this show, we talk to Romain Goyet, co-founder of Applidium. We first got in touch with Romain because we had spotted the Vim for iPad and iPhone app. The discussion ranged from Applidium’s apps, iOS versus Android, the new iPad, and much more.
This week we thought you would be interested in reading some more about what’s happening with the open source browser engine WebKit.
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, security, and other geeky topics.
Have you noticed the appification happening all round us? On your smartphone you have apps, whether it runs Android, iOS, Windows Phone, or some other OS. On your computer you have applications, at least for now. You will, however, soon use apps on your computer as well, regardless of whether you use a Mac or a Windows PC. Both Apple and Microsoft are moving full steam ahead on what we call the appification of software.
But with at least one software manufacturer already declaring that its software is “full software, not an app,” will there be a backlash, and what does it all mean for you?
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, security, and other geeky topics.
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on Mobile World Congress, which wrapped up in Barcelona yesterday.
Perceptions matter, and the perception of Nokia in the news, on the web, and in the minds of many, is that things aren’t going that well. Even in the Pingdom office, we hear “Nokia is doomed,” but do the numbers support this belief?
Looking at the statistics, Symbian leads the mobile operating system race with just over 30% of web browsing traffic. That’s down slightly from late last year, when we noted that Symbian finished 2011 as the top mobile operating system, with almost 34% of the mobile OS market.
What is even more interesting, however, is that Nokia is also ahead when we look at figures for all the mobile handset vendors. In fact, Nokia is way ahead of Apple, and Android lags far behind.
On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs took to the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The anticipation was that he would unveil Apple’s long-rumored tablet device.
The headline for the event was “Come see our latest creation.” That turned out to be the first iPad.
And like it or not, the world of technology – perhaps the world in general – has not been the same since.
