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Main on August 25th, 2009 by Pingdom
We all enjoy taking a late morning and some extra sleep now and then, but usually we want to do it on purpose. A large number of Swedish iPhone owners who use their iPhone as an alarm clock got an unexpectedly late start this morning when it turned out that their iPhone’s clock was running two hours behind.
The culprit apparently was the time synchronization server of their Swedish phone operator, which the iPhone synchronizes its clock against.
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Main on April 15th, 2009 by Pingdom
Today it’s been two weeks since Sweden enacted the IPRED law that makes it much easier for industry organizations to prosecute individuals involved in illegal file sharing and piracy. So at Pingdom we decided to examine the effects so far, looking at broadband traffic and online sales.
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Main on April 2nd, 2009 by Pingdom
Yesterday, a new anti-piracy law went live in Sweden. The result was an immediate 30% drop in Sweden’s Internet traffic.
The combined traffic passing through Sweden’s Internet Exchange Points usually peaks around 160 Gbit/s, but on Wednesday it peaked at around 110 Gbit/s. That’s a huge drop in traffic, and is presumably a direct result of less file sharing taking place.
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Main on March 12th, 2009 by Pingdom
2009 looks set to be a break-through year for Twitter. This article will show that interest for Twitter is skyrocketing outside the US, and also where this is happening.
To be able to examine the worldwide buzz about Twitter (the general interest level per country, if you like) we have looked at Google search data for searches made so far in 2009. This gave us a fresh perspective on the current trends.
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Pingdom on May 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
The Swedish magazine Internetworld, part of the global IT news service IDG, publish a big web hosting survey once a year where the 15 largest web hosting companies in Sweden are evaluated based on uptime and quality of service. Two years running, we have helped IDG design and perform this test, handling all monitoring tasks [...]
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Main on September 26th, 2007 by Pingdom
Google Search users in the United States are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem than users in Brazil, according to this unique one-year survey from Pingdom. Google has a large number of localized versions of their Google Search homepage. We have monitored the uptime of Google Search for 32 different countries during a [...]
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Pingdom on September 7th, 2007 by Pingdom
As we mentioned earlier, a couple of weeks ago the Serbian Pingdom team came over to Sweden to spend time with us here at the Pingdom HQ. Together we worked out the road map for the coming 12 months for the Pingdom uptime monitoring service and also had a lot of fun on the side. [...]
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Pingdom on August 31st, 2007 by Pingdom
No trip is complete without at least one major incident. (Murphy’s Law in action, once again.) When our visiting Serbian team took off from Arlanda airport this Tuesday to return home, it turned out that the transponders on the airplane were broken. Those are the things that make the plane visible to the flight control [...]
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Pingdom on August 30th, 2007 by Pingdom
Last Friday, seven guys from Pingdom’s Serbian development team came to visit us here in Sweden. What followed were four intensive days with a lot of work but also a lot of fun. Some of us hadn’t met before, so it was great getting to know everyone in person. What was on the agenda? Plan [...]
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Pingdom on June 1st, 2007 by Pingdom
IDG.se, the largest source for IT news in Sweden, published an article today with the title (translated) “Pingdom could become synonymous with uptime.” The article mentions how Pingdom is increasingly being used as a source for uptime data in various international IT magazines and websites. The analogy they use is how Alexa.com has become famous [...]
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