11 posts and columns on reliability

Tumblr Had 42 Hours of Downtime in 2011 — And That’s an Improvement

in Social on December 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Tumblr, the fast-growing blogging social network, goes down a lot. How much? It had 42 hours of downtime in 2011, by far the most among major blogging hosts, according to Pingdom.
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Exclusive: Twitter’s VP Engineering Mike Abbott Departs

in News on October 13, 2011 at 5:49 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Twitter VP of Engineering Mike Abbott has left the company. He is apparently interested in doing more investing.
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D: Dive Into Mobile–The Full Interview Video of RIM's Mike Lazaridis

in News on December 13, 2010 at 10:00 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital will begin publishing the full videos of the interviews we did last week at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco. We’ll be posting them all week and next, so first up: Research in Motion’s co-CEO and co-founder Mike Lazaridis.

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AT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results

in News on November 22, 2010 at 4:25 pm PT

AT&T has some new ammunition to fire at anyone who casts aspersions on the speed and reliability of its wireless network. Nationwide testing by Global Wireless Solutions, covering more than 400 markets representing about 88 percent of the U.S. population, found AT&T’s average mobile broadband speeds to be tops–its unnamed “nearest competitor” averaging speeds that were 20 percent slower and its largest competitor (that would be Verizon) running 60 percent slower. The GWS tests also showed that 98.59 percent of voice calls connected over the AT&T network nationwide are completed without interruption–within one-tenth of one percentage point of the top score in that category.

Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

in Mobile on May 14, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe’s Flash platform. On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own. Their eight-paragraph essay, “Our Thoughts On Open Markets,” mentions Apple only once, but when it does it is to lambaste the company for its position on Flash. I spoke to Geschke Thursday afternoon about his letter, Adobe’s new “We ? Apple” ad campaign and Apple’s stance on his company’s software. After the jump, a transcript of our conversation.

AT&T Tops 3G Performance Study. No, I’m Not Kidding.

in Mobile on February 23, 2010 at 1:10 pm PT

Looks like AT&T is delivering on its promise to improve its network. A 13-city mobile data network test conducted by PC World shows the carrier with download speeds 67 percent faster than those of its rivals and greatly improved reliability and performance.

AT&T 3G Improving–If You Can Get a Signal

in News on January 6, 2010 at 7:07 am PT

So AT&T has finished upgrading its 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2, completing the first phase of an effort that will improve connection reliability and at some point later this year or in 2011, raise its maximum 3G data speed to 7.2 Mbps from 3.6 Mbps. Welcome news for long-suffering AT&T subscribers–but only those in cities where additional back-haul connections have been added to support those higher speeds.
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LotusLive iNotes: Like Gmail, but Without the Outages

in News on October 2, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

As launch dates go, the timing could not be better. Less than a week after Google’s Gmail suffered its fourth service disruption this year, IBM announced a competing Web mail service intended to undercut it. Called LotusLive iNotes, it’s an email, calendaring, and contact management system aimed squarely at the enterprise space Google has been so diligently courting.
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WebGameTV

in News on March 24, 2009 at 8:35 am PT

The days of the traditional gaming console are coming to an end–according to entrepreneur Steve Perlman, anyway. Later today, Perlman–a former principal scientist at Apple and the founder of WebTV–will officially unveil OnLive, the online service with which he hopes to upend the $46 billion world-wide videogame market.
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Ma Google

in News on March 12, 2009 at 7:13 am PT

Google’s finally gone and done something with GrandCentral, the voice communications start-up the company acquired some 21 months ago. After migrating it over to its infrastructure and enhancing it with some new features, Google relaunched it this morning as Google Voice. And at first glance, the service is impressive.
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iPhone 2.1: The Fix Is In

in News, September 12, 2008 at 6:08 am PT