Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby decided to take a look at Steve Souders’ old claim that 80% of performance issues happen at the front-end. It turns out that for desktop browsers, that number is now at around 85%. But for mobile Web browsers, the number is more like 97%. He published the results here. Regarding...
iCloud Communications sells VoIP services, which makes them competitors of Skype, Vonage, and Cisco, not Apple. Apple bought iCloud.com which had been around for years, not sued by iCloud Communications. Their website — geticloud.com — is ranked 9,000,000 by Alexa, so exactly what business was there to be damaged is questionable. Article source: TNW...
With a Skype outage, a massive E3 keynote, Halo 4 finally being confirmed, and a patent lawsuit fiasco, it has been a massive week in the world of Microsoft. For this week’s question, sound off in the comments if you were part of those affected by Skype’s recent down time. Before we dig in, be sure...
Volvo has reportedly started producing its all-electric C30, and will start shipping cars to fleets (mostly under leases) in Europe by the Summer. Lennart Stegland, President of Volvo special vehicles, told us late last year that Volvo plans to only build about 1,000 cars for this first production run, and he said while there...
Social media monitoring firm SocialNuggets was tuned into Apple’s developer conference (WWDC) this week, and specifically the news revealed during CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address. The firm’s goal was to see what Internet users had to say about all of Apple’s new products and services. To reach its conclusions, SocialNuggets monitored over 12,000 social...
I have to admit, first off, that I’m not much of a mobile gaming fan. Oh sure, I’ve played my share of Angry Birds and Plants Vs. Zombies, but not much more than that. But I’m becoming a bigger fan of the social aspect of mobile games, as I’ve been a long-time MMO fan....
Make It A Game, People Will Come FourSquare launched right before South by SouthWest Interactive in 2009 and took the conference by storm. It was the first mobile-based check-in game that gave users any real incentive to tell people where they were in real life through the Internet. Badges and leaderboards had digital denizens...
Late last month Google launched a Gmail plug-in that looked an awful lot like popular startup service Rapportive’s sidebar CRM app – but with additional functionality from Google services like Calendar. What’s a little startup to do? Rapportive’s plan is apparently to move faster and adds more on top of what Google can do....
We recently wrote about why using data on your mobile phone abroad is so expensive – and there’s a number of reasons why that’s the case. But it’s lucky for us there are Robin Hoods out there working tirelessly to help us circumvent this financial landmine and get one over on the mobile networks....
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. The June contest for the MacBook Air giveaway is well underway but time...