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It seems like October was a resting month for social networking users, as October site traffic from Compete indicates that the likes of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter didn’t actually register a significant growth.
Twitter’s site traffic for one registered a 2% decrease month over month. This is the same as its June traffic data and is actually lower than the previous months – July, August September. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 12, 2009 @ 11:23 am
Are you having trouble scaling your new media empire across a few dozen servers? How about scaling it across ten million servers? That’s the scale Google envisions with a new storage and computation system they’re developing for all their global datacenters, appropriately named Spanner.
That should be more than enough to run Skynet. And you thought your hosting setup was complicated.
(Via Rich Miller.)
Originally posted on October 21, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
The mad scramble for 4G dominance continues as Sprint announced plans to release LTE to 120 markets all over the United States by next year.
This is a logical step for Sprint as the carrier has finally snagged Apple iPhone 4S, which is a big win for the carrier. Sprint announced its network plans with the initial 120 market implementation of the LTE services. This will then be further expanded to a total of 260 markets by the end of 2013. Sprint also announced that it will be releasing its first LTE device in 2012. [Read more…]
Originally posted on October 10, 2011 @ 5:58 pm