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The Next Web published an article in August entitled “How text messaging as we know it will die in 3-5 years.” In the article Niall Harbison argues that the advent of smartphones and apps such as WhatsApp results in users transitioning away from SMS to these alternative messaging options. So let’s try to see what we can find out.
Microsoft is one of the largest and most profitable tech companies in the world, but sometimes we can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them.
Why? Because the online community won’t cut them any slack whatsoever. There is so little love shown that it’s scary. If there’s even the slightest chance that something can be blamed on Microsoft, it will.
Whatever the exact opposite of goodwill is, Microsoft has plenty of it.
We all know Google has awesome office spaces, they’re well known for it and we’ve all seen the colorful pics, but the truth is that quite a few tech and web companies have taken the extra step and made their office environments pretty amazing places to work.
Here are a few examples…
The Internet has given even small companies the chance to reach a huge audience worldwide. This has resulted in a number of companies and organizations that provide services to a huge number of users in spite of having a relatively small number of employees.
The companies and organizations we’ve included here have at least an estimated 10 million users or more.
Instant messaging. We all use it, whether it be Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, or some other IM client or platform. We’ve come a long way since the days of ICQ, when IM as a phenomenon really took off. IM is now such an intricate part of our experience of the internet that we thought an infographic on the subject was in order. Enjoy!
Now here’s an interesting piece of information. Skype has, as you may be aware of, become hugely popular and has a reported 521 million registered users. It turns out that that is enough to take a considerable chunk of change away from the traditional telephone companies, especially when it comes to those expensive international long-distance calls.
Since February 8, the Joost website has had outages almost on a daily basis. Some short, some up to an hour long. With a full week left of February, the website has already been unavailable for a total of five hours and ten minutes this month. This can be contrasted with January, when they had [...]
SIME, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event, doesn’t take place until November, but some very interesting speakers have already been announced. The conference also has a seriously snazzy website this year. The list of speakers is looking very promising, with even more to come later. These are the ones announced so far: Niklas Zennström, founder of [...]
It’s no secret that things are going well for us. Pingdom keeps growing and new customers keep coming in. There are a lot of very interesting companies putting our uptime monitoring services to good use. For example, we think it’s pretty cool that Skype is one of our customers. There are plenty of other exciting [...]
