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SPDY Is Only Used by a Few Hundred Sites, Mostly Google

There's been a lot of talk about SPDY lately, with two major browsers adopting it and the updated protocol being proposed as the basis for the upcoming HTTP 2.0. Still, SPDY usage is small, that much is clear, the only other major website outside of Google to support it being Twitter. It's hard to know how...

2 May 2012
14:51 GMT

SPDY Is 1.3 Times Faster than Plain HTTP on the Mobile Web

Google SPDY is in a very good position. It's poised to become the foundation for the upcoming HTTP 2.0 standard and is already supported by Chrome and Firefox. Google is using it extensively on its servers and the Apache module which enables SPDY is now stable.Wanting to show off SPDY's improvements, Google...

1 May 2012
15:11 GMT

Twitter Flips on the SPDY Switch

SPDY, the alternative to HTTP proposed by Google is slowly gaining strength. Granted, it's got a long way to go, but Twitter has started adopting it and using it by default, with browsers that support it.SPDY, as the name implies, was devised to speed up internet connections. Google is working on several fronts ...

10 March 2012
07:11 GMT

Netflix Makes Up Almost Half of US Downstream Traffic

Netflix continues to be the top traffic generating service online in the US, accounting for 32.69 percent of all downstream traffic, according to a new report from Sandvine.Regular HTTP traffic comes in at a respectable number two with 17.48 percent of peak downstream traffic.YouTube is responsible for quite a large ...

27 October 2011
10:58 GMT

Google's HTTP Alternative SPDY Gets Its First Real-World Implementation

In late 2009 Google introduced the SPDY protocol, its take on improving the tried and trusted HTTP with a speedier alternative. The controlled experiments proved quite encouraging, but Google hasn't said much since. It hasn't stood still though, Google continued to work on the implementation and now Strange...

13 June 2011
11:11 GMT

Apple Talks iPhone Live TV Streaming

Using the handy iPhone Dev Center section designated for developer news and announcements, the company behind the Mac operating system has posted a stub informing iPhone developers that HTTP Live Stream Technology is required for live TV streaming. The technology can be leveraged starting with iPhone OS 3.0. Currentl...

15 December 2009
04:12 GMT

The New SPDY Web Protocol from Google Promises to Speed Up the Web

There's no doubt Google is a speed junkie. It wants everything to be faster and its doing anything to make it so. It built its own web browser, Chrome, just for this, and it's even building a new operating system, Chrome OS, with the same idea in mind. It obsesses about its search engine to squeeze every l...

13 November 2009
04:35 GMT

Download New Version of uTorrent for Mac (0.9.0.2)

While still in Beta, uTorrent is being cleansed and “purified” once every few days since its official introduction for the Macintosh last month. The latest version of uTorrent for Mac delivers enhancements spanning CPU usage, error message display, and selective downloading. uTorrent is a BitTorrent clien...

10 December 2008
10:17 GMT

Updated uTorrent for Mac (0.9.0.1) Available for Download

BitTorrent Inc has released a new version of its popular BitTorrent client (recently released on Mac), uTorrent 0.9.0.1. The new release fixes a crash in Finder, and delivers a promise from the development team that PPC users will soon be supported just as well as Intel users. “We've just released µT...

4 December 2008
08:52 GMT

Papaya 1.1.1 Allows Multi-File 'Properties' Editing

Papaya, a web server for Mac OS X dedicated to sharing your files with others, has been updated to version 1.1.1. The new release adds the ability to edit properties for multiple selected files at once, a new context menu item to show activity in the log, and detectable resource forks.Using Papaya is as easy as dragg...

18 July 2008
05:00 GMT

Mozilla Shut Down Servers Due To Fake Firefox 3 Beta

The answer to the subtitle would be "you have to wait for a while until Mozilla officially releases it" but at this time, you can always download and install the release candidate builds rolled out by the company. But here's what happened a few days ago when a user nicknamed "corevette" published an entry on Dig...

12 November 2007
08:38 GMT


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