WebScanNotes

Newsflash: Mozilla to Launch Web App Store to Developers at Mobile World Congress

Lem — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:52:38 +0000

Mozilla has announced that Mozilla Marketplace, a web app store, will open for developers to submit web apps at Mobile World Congress. The Mozilla Market is part of Mozilla’s proposed Mozilla Web Apps platform, which also includes new Mozilla-proposed APIs that will be submitted to the W3C for standardization, as well as a new identity [...]

ICANN Has Received 100 Applicants for New Generic TLDs

Lem — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:16:06 +0000

ICANN has reportedly received applications from 100 organizations for new generic TLDs (gTLDs) since ICANN started accepting applications on 12 Jan this year. However, ICANN did not reveal who they are or what TLDs were applied for. gTLDs, which stands for generic Top-Level-Domains, are top level domain names not affiliated with any country, such as [...]

Friendships Keep Blackberrys Alive – RIM Partners Microsoft to Launch Blackberry Business Cloud Services

Lem — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:01 +0000

RIM have partnered Microsoft to launch “Blackberry Business Cloud Services“, a new Blackberry service that acts as an intermediary between Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 and Blackberry devices, to give organizations mobile access to their Office 365 accounts. Architecturally:

Udemy: PHP vs Python vs Ruby

Lem — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:05:42 +0000

Infographic from Udemy: Source: Udemy Blog

Strategy Analytics: 2011 Top Smartphone Vendors

Lem — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:02:45 +0000

Some statistics from Strategy Analytics: Samsung – 19.9% Apple – 19% Nokia – 15.8%

World IPv6 Launch Day – 6 June 2012

Lem — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:16:47 +0000

Following the World IPv6 day last year, the Internet Society is making plans for World IPv6 Launch day, and had already enlisted support from some of the top websites, ISPs and networking device manufacturers. Unlike last year’s World IPv6 Day, during which participating websites temporarily enables IPv6 on their main webpages for 24 hours, World [...]

Pingdom: Internet 2011 in Numbers

Lem — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:53:12 +0000

Some statistics on the Internet in 2011 from Pingdom: 3.146 billion email accounts worldwide 27.6% – Microsoft Outlook was the most popular email client 19% spam email to corporate users 360 million Hotmail users – largest email service in the world 555 million websites 2.1 billion Internet users worldwide 1.2 billion mobile broadband subscriptions

ICANN Starts Accepting new gTLDs

Lem — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:22:56 +0000

ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, has announced that it will start accepting applications for new gTLDs from today (12 Jan 2012) till 12 April 2012. gTLDs, which stands for generic Top-Level-Domains, are top level domain names not affiliated with any country, such as .com, .net and .org. At present, gTLDs are defined [...]

Newsflash: China Internet Population Hits 505 Million

Lem — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:01:18 +0000

From Reuters: the number of Internet users in China has hit 505 million as of November 2011; the number of microblog users exceeded 300 million.

Newflash: Opera Unveils TV Store

Lem — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:57:49 +0000

Newsflash: Google is not the only one with its sights set on TVs; Opera has unveiled its latest product – “Opera TV Store” at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. Opera TV Store is a web app store for televisions that runs on Opera’s platform/browser. Apps already available include Facebook and Vimeo.