Infographic from NewRelic on top performing payment gateways such as Paypal and Google Checkout. Unsurprisingly, Paypal is by far the leader in terms of popularity.
Credits: NewRelic
- Lem
Amazon Launches App Store for Virtual Servers With Preconfigured Software – AWS Marketplace
April 19th, 2012Cool stuff – Amazon Web Services announced the launch of AWS Marketplace – an app store for software systems such as Zend Server and SAP BusinessObjects. When purchased, these software systems will be deployed as an Amazon EC2 virtual server preconfigured with the purchased software.
Software on AWS Marketplace are categorized as:
- Software Infrastructure – Application Development, Application Stacks, Application Servers, Databases & Caching, Network Infrastructure, Operating Systems, and Security.
- Developer Tools – Issue & Bug Tracking, Monitoring, Source Control, and Testing.
- Business Software – Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Content Management, CRM, eCommerce, High Performance Computing, Media, Project Management, and Storage & Backup.
Credits: Amazon
- Lem
Delaying Death – Symbian Gets Microsoft Office
April 13th, 2012Nokia had announced that its Symbian devices will be getting Microsoft Office Mobile suite. I’m not sure what the business rationale that led to Microsoft developing for the Symbian platform, since the platform had been dropped by Nokia in favor of Windows Phone OS, and will no longer get any support in the future. Perhaps it had already been in the pipeline before the announcement of Symbian’s end-of-life, or perhaps this was part of the collaboration deal between Microsoft and Nokia.
Credits: Nokia
- Lem
Lenovo Launches Enterprise Android App Store
March 28th, 2012Newsflash: Lenovo has announced the launch of “Lenovo Enterprise App Shop“, an Android app store that can be administrated and customized by its corporate customers.
Its value proposition:
- All apps on the store will be screened by Lenovo
- Corporate IT admins can control which apps will be made available on their corporate app stores
- Corporations can enjoy volume purchases where available
- Apps can be enabled/disabled remotely
- Lem
BrowserQuest – HTML5-Based MMORPG Built on WebSockets
March 28th, 2012Cool stuff – Mozilla has released a browser-based game, BrowserQuest, that is built purely on HTML5 standards, and featured the use of HTML5 WebSocket API; this may be one of the major applications of the WebSocket API so far. Previous examples are mostly small proof-of-concepts such as small chatrooms.
WebSockets allow web applications to dynamically create persistent, bi-directional connections with the web server. Prior to WebSockets, such a feature wasn’t possible, and web developers often resort to workarounds using Ajax/Comet techniques.
- Lem
RIPE: Percentage of ASes Announcing IPv6 Prefixes Increased
March 10th, 2012A study by RIPE found that the percentage of ASes (Autonomous Systems) announcing IPv6 Prefixes (basically it means that the ASes route to certain IPv6 networks) has been increasing since they started the study; when broken by RIRs (Regional Internet Registrar) regions, the growth trends are remarkably similar.
Credits: RIPE
Currently:
- APNIC – 17%
- LACNIC – 15%
- RIPE NCC – 15%
- AfriNIC – 12%
- ARIN – 10%
However, while the figures are impressive – double digit percentages, do note that these figures do not indicate IPv6 penetration directly (currently still < 1%). This is because the study only measures the number of ASes that announces IPv6 prefixes, and not the total number of public IPv6 prefixes vs the total number of IPv4 prefixes (1 AS can announce multiple prefixes), nor does it take into account the number of actual hosts and end-consumers with IPv6 access. Nevertheless, the figures do imply that IPv6 adoption is increasing.
The study also tabulates the percentages of ASes announcing IPv6 prefixes, broken by countries:
Credits: RIPE
- Lem
iOS Safari Browsers Thrash Android Browsers in HTML5 Processing
March 7th, 2012According to SpacePort [pdf], iPhone & iPad Safari mobile browsers consistently thrashed Android browsers in HTML5 image processing speed. Performance was measured by measuring the number of images that can be moved around the screen while maintaining 30 fps (frames per sec). “Movements” include CSS3′s 2D and 3D transforms as well as the use of HTML5 Canvas drawing. Further descriptions can be found here.
Credits: SpacePort.io
- Lem
Newsflash: Mozilla to Launch Web App Store to Developers at Mobile World Congress
February 23rd, 2012Mozilla 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 system for the Web that ties apps to the user and not the device or platform.
- Lem
ICANN Has Received 100 Applicants for New Generic TLDs
February 16th, 2012ICANN 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 .com, .net and .org. At present, gTLDs are defined and administered only by ICANN, and this new gTLDs program will allow organisations to apply for and administer new gTLDs such as “.thing”, and “.brand”. Additionally, the new gTLDs are not restricted to just latin characters – they could be in other scripts such as Chinese or Arabic.
- Lem
Friendships Keep Blackberrys Alive – RIM Partners Microsoft to Launch Blackberry Business Cloud Services
January 31st, 2012RIM 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:
Credits: RIM
Credits: RIM
- Lem
