Posted in
Main on September 4th, 2009 by Pingdom
We humans are (mostly) a social breed. Ever since we have been able to connect computers together, we have enjoyed using our computers to communicate with each other. These days it’s hard to imagine a life without computer messaging such as email, IM and other applications that let us communicate cheaply and over great distances.
We decided to take a look at the history of computer messaging, the technologies and services that ultimately led us to where we are today.
Read more
Posted in
Main on September 2nd, 2009 by Pingdom
It seems like every month there is some kind of news story about leaked emails. When emails never intended for the public eye are leaked, the consequences can be huge. People have lost their jobs, whole companies have been embarrassed, and in some cases the information revealed can even be dangerous.
Considering how easily emails can be leaked, it’s almost surprising we don’t hear about leaks more often. Here are a few famous examples of leaked emails and what their consequences were.
Read more
Posted in
Main on July 29th, 2009 by Pingdom
Just imagine how extremely happy we were when the following email dropped into the support inbox here at Pingdom:
Read more
Posted in
Guest posts on June 15th, 2009 by Pingdom
Financial Times just published an article about the “secret war on web crooks.” The article contains several interesting tidbits of information about spam and the challenges of trying to prevent it.
Read more
Posted in
Main on April 14th, 2009 by Pingdom
Spam. Those pointless, highly annoying junk messages that keep showing up in your inbox. Sadly enough, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting rid of spam anytime soon, so in the meantime, here are some interesting facts you probably didn’t know about those pesky electronic messages everyone loves to hate.
Read more
Posted in
Main on February 25th, 2009 by Pingdom
If you missed that Google had a 2.5-hour Gmail outage yesterday, you were probably hiding under a rock, or possibly in one of those sensory deprivation chambers. Every major tech blog and news outlet was on it (not to mention Twitter users).
It was night-time in the US, which limited the impact there, but the rest of the world wasn’t so lucky. For example, in Europe the outage started at 9:30 in the morning.
Google has now put a number on how much the potential productivity loss for Gmail users was worth.
Read more
Posted in
Outages on January 27th, 2009 by Pingdom
President Barack Obama is said to be significantly more tech-savvy than his predecessor, so one might wonder how he felt when the White House mail server suffered a meltdown yesterday, leaving his entire press office without access to the official White House email addresses for much of the day.
Read more
Posted in
Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at. 
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.
Read more
Posted in
Outages on October 14th, 2008 by Pingdom
Spam can be more than a mere inconvenience, as tens of thousands of Virgin Media DSL customers in the UK can testify to after having been unable to access their email for days last week due to what is said to have been a spam attack. Virgin Media uses Tucows’s OpenSRS email service.
The Virgin Media DSL service has about 200,000 customers. Approximately half of these were affected.
Read more
Posted in
Pingdom on June 13th, 2008 by Pingdom
We almost forgot to tell you about a new feature we snuck into the Pingdom uptime monitoring service a few weeks ago. As with many of our features, this one was added by popular request from our users (who we would like to thank for all the wonderful feedback we have been receiving). Now you, [...]
Read more
