While this mobile app was traditionally intended to be a sales/marketing tool, Dyn will now position it as a DevOps tool for its customers.

This move, combined with the acquisition of Verelo in late 2012 and the hiring of Pete Cheslock as Dyn Director of Dev Tools, Donald Layden as Project Manager, Tools, and the promotion of Carl Levine to DevOps Evangelist, is proof that Dyn is committed to being an important voice and part of the DevOps community.

"At the root of Dyn has always been our excellence in engineering," said Kyle York, Dyn Chief Revenue Officer. "We are committed to creating tools that answer the questions of engineers and members of the DevOps community throughout the world. The acquisition of Trendslide is a big step toward that guarantee."

The Trendslide app aggregates data from the websites and apps users already use, and presents a simple graph for a single purpose: to give them a pulse on whether their key metrics are trending up, staying flat, or trending down. Dyn plans to integrate historical DNS and email data into Trendslide, in addition to 3rd party services like Gomez, New Relic, Thousand Eyes, Catchpoint, Keynote, Nagios and more.

In addition to acquiring the IP, co-Founder Benjamin Petrin will join Dyn as a Lead Developer, Tools, with a focus on innovative mobile experiences for Dyn customers.

The acquisition of Trendslide enhances Dyn's commitment to Internet performance, reliability and scalability for more than 500,000 active self sign-up customers, 2500 enterprise customers and over five million users worldwide. This is a firm display that Dyn is diving into mobile technology as Native Push and SMS are two messaging areas the company is considering.

Dyn has a long history with Trendslide as Dyn CTO Cory von Wallenstein was the original investor and helped the company gain early traction and buzz. One of the hottest startups in New Hampshire, the Dyn executives saw an opportunity to acquire Trendslide while an acquisition was still viable as they were poised to raise an additional funding round.

In part, Trendslide's success can be attributed to its strong advisory board, which included Richard Terry-Lloyd, VP of Emerging Markets, Zuora; Eric Hansen, Founder/CEO, SiteSpect; Ryan Burke, VP, Sales, Moontoast; Evan York, Senior Product Manager, Newforma; and Josh Deslisle, VP, Worldwide Sales, Dyn.

"This is a great home for the future of the Trendslide application," added Ron Martin, Trendslide CEO. "As we were looking to raise capital, it was the common opinion of many VCs that this service should stay close to Dyn and focus on Infrastructure — not on marketing and sales analytics. It was good advice, so we decided this was the sensible move. We are happy with this outcome and excited to see the product carry on."

First of all, this is not an 'us or them' issue between fixed and mobile broadband. As a matter of fact, the companies that are rolling out LTE are increasingly dependent on deep fibre rollouts as they need to handle massive amounts of data, to which the mobile infrastructure technology is not well-suited. So the quicker they can offload their mobile traffic onto a fixed network the better. As I've said before, one of the key drivers of fibre deployment will be the growth in mobile broadband.

A similar situation will occur in the home. More and more, people are using their mobile devices rather than PCs and laptops; and more people within the home are using more and different mobile devices, so this will significantly increase the need for capacity within the home. The reality of mobile broadband is that 60%-80% of capacity usage of smartphone and tablet use is in the home, and these devices are all connected to the fixed network through the WiFi modem. People are becoming accustomed to the quality of the LTE network, so they will want a similar quality of service over the fixed network; and over the next 3-5 years the current network will start to run out of steam. And, with at least one-third of all fixed broadband connections being of such an inferior quality, these households are already facing these quality problems now.

So, while access to the internet and broadband is moving quickly towards smartphones and tablets as the preferred access devices, at the same time the majority of broadband capacity required through these devices will still need to be provided by the fixed network.

While the capacity of the mobile network is greatly improved by LTE — as well as by the upcoming extra capacity through new spectrum allocation — the physics of mobile technology is such that it will be impossible to handle all the traffic of these mobile devices over the mobile network.

Obviously the mobile operators are not sitting still. They are improving their network infrastructure in order to capture as much of the traffic as possible, and increasingly they are looking at WiFi technologies as another alternative to off-load traffic and/or add extra access points for users in high traffic areas such as shopping centres, entertainment venues, transport stations, etc. But again these WiFi access points need to be connected to the fixed network, and in the case of WiFi access points you virtually need fibre-to-the premise/business to be of any use.

So, while LTE will greatly increase the use of broadband and broadband applications, this will at the same time put increased pressure on the fixed network.

On the end-user side of the fixed broadband market — we don't have the same dynamics as in the mobile market. Few, if any, fixed network devices capture the users' attention in the way the new smartphones do. Also, there is a clear lack of exciting fixed broadband applications. Entertainment is largely captured by content providers who want to protect their existing business models, and applications in healthcare, education, energy, etc are going to take a long time to reach maturity and mass market penetration levels. So all attention is clearly on mobile and this is creating a skewed perspective on what is needed overall to ensure that these mobile developments can be used to their full potential.

The developments in mobile and LTE will generally stimulate the need for better fixed networks, but at the same time there will be a significant group of users who — at this point in time — do not have high capacity requirements, and for whom a $30 or $40 monthly mobile connection will cater for all their comms needs. This group will actually lead to stagnation, and even a decline, in fixed broadband connections. We already see this happening in the Hong Kong market. The situation will only be exacerbated if LTE becomes available in areas that have very poor fixed broadband coverage. BuddeComm estimates that up to 25% of users could simply abandon their unsatisfactory fixed broadband connection in favour of LTE. Most will eventually re-connect in 3-5 years' time, but only when important applications are becoming available over the fixed network.

These short-term developments could be interpreted by some who don't have a good understanding of the total picture as an indication that fixed broadband is not needed, and this could potentially undermine the build-out of the fixed broadband networks that are so desperately needed for the longer-term social and economic developments in the country.

If we look at the very latest smartphone devices (e.g. GalaxyS4) we see an increase in what is called machine-to-machine (M2M) or Internet of Things (IoT) applications, often linked to location-based services (LBS). What happens behind the scenes of these applications is that they gather data often from a variety of sources and process that information in real time, giving users interesting services in relation to healthcare, sport achievement, calorie intake, weather transport and traffic information and so on.

It is these M2M and IoT applications that are finally going to stimulate the sort of killer apps that are needed to drag some of the lagging sectors into the digital age — such as healthcare, education, utilities, government and business, who are at present trying to limit the impact of the digital economy, rather than embracing it. This, in turn, will start stimulating the sort of applications that require the capacity, robustness and security that can only be delivered by fibre optic networks.

All of this will come together in 5 to 10 years' time when the requirements from the mobile-based developments, the rapid growth of M2M applications, and the somewhat slower growth from the requirements following the industry and sector transformations, combined, make the need for a fibre-based infrastructure essential for the economic development and social wellbeing of any developed economy.

What is required from business leaders and politicians is that they recognise this need and start planning for it from the earliest possible opportunity. Doing this on the run is not the ideal way to make infrastructure investments that will have to last for 25-50 years.

Written by Paul Budde, Managing Director of Paul Budde Communication

Yet Vodafone is one of the key players in Spain's surging fibre market, where investment in networks is a precondition of customer growth and financial reward. In common with development elsewhere (not least in the mobile sector), Vodafone is not going it alone, but is sharing the cost with other parties. In Spain, it has partnered with Orange. Unlike many other European markets, where operators have tended to concentrate on high-density towns (Paris, Milan, Amsterdam), in Spain FttH is more widely available in smaller towns and rural areas, often guided by the policies of regional governments. In this market there is plenty of room for smaller players to co-exist with the incumbent.

Orange launched an FttH pilot in Madrid as early as 2010, and earlier this year teamed up with Vodafone to invest up to €1 billion on a joint fibre network covering 50 of the largest cities. With complementary footprints, the fibre is owned independently though the companies share technical specifications to ensure compatibility as a single network. Each operator provides access to its own footprint, making the entire network available to each other. Orange recently switched on its fibre for commercial services, initially in Madrid, and planned to have some 800,000 premises connected to the network by March 2014, rising to three million by September 2015 and six million by 2017. In Madrid alone, up to 40,000 homes could be connected to the network.

The Orange/Vodafone joint network is open to co-investing third parties to share, which could dramatically extend the availability of fibre to Catalonia and Asturias where there are already extensive deployments through existing projects.

These developments are encouraging, and show that telcos operating through long-term economic doldrums are reassured that sensible investment strategies will provide dividends down the track.

Written by Henry Lancaster, Senior Analysts at Paul Budde Communication

In most cases these are annoyances that we have started to take for granted. This is rather odd, as people do not have the same level of tolerance in relation to their supply of landline communication or, for example, electricity.

At the same time, in almost ever disaster situation the mobile network collapses, simply because it can't handle the enormous increase in traffic. The latest example was the collapse of the mobile services in Boston shortly after the bombing.

The trouble is that in such events this is not simply an annoyance. At these times communications are critical, and sometimes a matter of life and death. The fact that we now have many examples of network meltdowns indicates that so far mobile operators have been unable to create the level of robustness needed to cope with catastrophic events.

Then there are the natural disasters, when it is more likely that infrastructure will be extensively damaged or totally destroyed. However, as we saw during the Brisbane floods two years ago, essential infrastructure has been built in areas that are known to be flood-prone. Infrastructure like mobile towers may not necessarily be physically affected but if the electricity substations are positioned in those areas mobile service operation will be affected.

There are also very few official emergency arrangements between electricity utilities and mobile operators, or for that matter local authorities.

Bucketty in the Hunter Valley, where my office is based, is in a bushfire-prone area and we have been working with Optus — the local, and only, provider of mobile services in the area — to prepare ourselves for bushfire emergencies, to date with limited result. Our idea was to work with the local fire brigade to get access to the mobile tower in emergency situations so that we could install a mobile back-up generator in case the power is cut off.

We were unable to get that organised as Optus insists it can provide these extra emergency services itself. Based on our experience, however, roads are closed in times of emergency and it would be impossible for anyone from the outside to come into the area to assist. This has to be organised on a local level, but large organisations don't work that way.

All of these examples show that the utility and emergency functions of mobile services have not yet been taken seriously enough, and so these problems will continue unless a more critical approach is taken towards guaranteeing a much higher level of robustness to our mobile services. The mobile communication meltdowns during disasters that we have witnessed over the last few years were largely preventable if mobile operators had prepared their network for such events, and if better emergency plans had been developed between various authorities involved in such emergencies, together with policies and procedures to address these issues.

With an increased coverage of WiFi — linked to fixed networks — we see that, particularly in cities, such services are proving to be more reliable, especially for the data services that are required almost immediately to locate people and provide emergency communication services. The social media play a key role in this. In Boston Google responded instantly with a location finder for those affected and their friends and family, and access was largely provided through hotspots.

With an increase of total reliance on mobile networks, especially in emergency situations, it is obvious that far greater attention will need to be given to the construction of mobile networks with disaster events in mind. So far the industry on its own has failed to do this and it will be only a matter of time for government authorities to step in and try to fix these problems.

Other problems — based in particular on experience in the USA — that will need to be addressed include the unfamiliarity with SMS, especially among older people. During a network meltdown it often is still possible to send SMSs and they are the best method of communication. Also, with the increase of smartphones people tend to no longer remember telephone numbers, and often in those emergency situations the batteries of smartphones quickly run to empty.

Smartphone manufacturers, as well as the society at large, will have to think of solutions to these problems.

This is a good interview with my American colleague Brough Turner on why cell phone (and other phone) networks get congested in time of crisis.

Written by Paul Budde, Managing Director of Paul Budde Communication

China now has over 564 million Internet users!

Think about that for a minute.

Most estimates these days are that there are around 2 billion people around the world using the Internet. We have no real way of knowing exactly how many people are online, but the estimate most of us use is "2 billion".

So if we go with that estimate, these latest numbers out of China would mean that China represents around 25% of all Internet users. A rather amazing growth given that the ICANN 46 welcoming remarks also indicated that in 2002 China only had 59 million Internet users.

Less surprising to me was the stated fact that 75% of Chinese users are mobile Internet users. I think most of us can clearly see both in industry trends and in our own personal usage that Internet usage is increasingly moving to a mobile-centric world.

Still, let's think about the scale of that percentage: 75% of 564 million represents 423 million mobile Internet users — about the size of the entire population of the USA and Mexico combined.

A rather huge number of people.

I sat there thinking about those numbers and my mind immediately turned to all of those of us who are publishing content on the Internet. This is yet another sign that mobile consumption of content is increasingly dominant — how well does your website work for mobile users? And while English may be the primary language many of us may use for our websites, how well do those sites work for viewers for whom English is not their main language? And what multi-lingual capabilities does your website have? Or what are you planning to add?

Truly an amazing number of users… and it will only continue to grow!

Written by Dan York, Author and Speaker on Internet technologies

The 7th meeting of the UN Broadband Commission in Mexico City was again a good combination of announcements about new plans, results of previously undertaken activities, and views on the future of broadband. Very noticeable was the enthusiasm and acknowledgement of the impact of ICT, and of broadband in particular.

In September 2012 the Commission launched its working group on gender equality. Research undertaken by the various members of the workgroup provided somewhat similar results:

• Globally there is a 21% gender gap in relation to access to mobile phones, although in South-East Asia this gap is 37%.
• 40% of women in developing economies find a job due to ownership of a mobile phone.
• The global gap for internet access is 25%, while in the sub-Saharan countries this is 45%.
• There are most likely thousands of gender equality pilots. Of these pilots, those that are now delivering results need to move on to the implementation stage.
• Only 29% of the 119 national broadband plans around the world include policies for gender equality.
• Empowering young people to adopt ICT will give them the ability to teach their parents, and the reverse of this will also apply.
• A full half-day of the two-day meeting of the Commission was dedicated to gender equality in broadband. The following day the full Commission endorsed the goal set by the working group calling for global equality in broadband access by 2020. Women are key in household and community development, and gender equality will add between US$13 and US$18 billion to economic GDP (Intel. 2013).

7th Broadband Commission for Digital Development Meeting – Mexico City, Mexico, 16-17 March 2013.
Photo: ITU (Click to Enlarge)The Commission also specifically mentioned that gender equality should not be, or become, a separate single issue. It is not another 'ism'. It should automatically be included in all aspects of ICT, broadband and policies in general. At the moment, technology is not gender-neutral.

An unexpected good news story came from Iraq. In 2011 only 20% of women in that country had access to a mobile phone. Thanks to a new mobile package specifically designed for women by mobile operator Asiacell (part of the Qtel Group) 40% of Asiacell's subscriber base are now women, and an additional 1.8 million of them will have access to a mobile phone by the end of 2014. The package specifically addresses the cultural aspects of womanhood in an Arab country — for example, female sales assistants, access to an all-female call centre, blocking of calls and SMS from certain people — and the way women use mobile — e.g., reduced tariffs for longer calls. It is to be hoped that the ideas and success of this initiative will spread.

The issue of violence against women was highlighted. Worldwide there are most likely hundreds of millions of women who suffer abuse, and this was highlighted with shocking examples from the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, where girls as young as 12 years will be forced to sell themselves in order to survive. Radio and TV programs are used by the Jordanian government to try and empower these girls, but ICT, and mobile phones in particular, can be used to break through this cycle of abuse.

One million ICT-empowered community workers

In January 2013 the One Million Community Workers program, aimed at providing one million smartphones to community workers — predominantly in the sub-Saharan countries, which has the largest group of least developed countries in the world — was officially launched and adopted by the African Union. Nine countries have already signed up to the program, with another six in the pipeline and more to follow. Both the smartphone vendor community and the mobile operators — MTN in particular — have given their support to this program. This is critical as rural mobile coverage will have to be extended in these countries and low-cost smartphones need to be made available (Huawei announced that by the end of the year there will be a US$50 smartphone).

In relation to healthcare, the UN Foundation (UNF) mentioned that there is huge shift in providing healthcare rather than bringing people to it. Through m-health, healthcare will increasingly be delivered to the people. The UNF recently also launched a report on standards and interoperability in e-health.

New projects of the Commission

New projects that received support from the Commission included:

A commitment to promote digital accessibility for the one billion people with disabilities worldwide, similar to the gender equality goal stimulating the development of policies that will lead to equality in relation to ICT access. Between 30%-50% of people with disabilities do not have access to the internet. In all developing economies, people with disabilities, together with older-aged people, form by far the largest unconnected segment.

Youssou N'Dour – New AfricaCommissioner Youssou N'Dour, the famous African musician and Minister of Tourism of Senegal, received support for his project 'New Africa 2014'. I would like to recommend this very moving video clip to you. His aim is to encourage the use of ICT and broadband by the youth of Africa, through his music. Several Commissioners will attend and speak at his concert in Dakar, Nigeria.

The Commission also launched a new Task Force on the post-2015 development agenda and the future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — or as some prefer to call them Continuous Development Goals. The initiative aims to leverage the huge installed base of mobile handsets to bring new services to communities globally, particularly in the world's poorest countries. ITU's m-Powering Initiative, seeks to act as a catalyst to achieve sustainability, harnessing the power of state-of-the-art ICTs and smart solutions to meet new Sustainable Development Goals.

The Commission's working group on Youth will lead a Global Youth Summit on technology issues, to be held in Costa Rica in November at the invitation of President Laura Chinchilla. Interesting research presented at the meeting by Alcatel-Lucent indicated that in countries with high youth unemployment (Spain, Bangladesh, India, Ghana) 30% of young people indicated a willingness to become an entrepreneur by using their mobile phone and ICT skills.

As young people are quickly becoming tech-savvy it is critical to launch 'train-the-trainer' projects — train community workers, etc. The recently announced educational reforms in Mexico are a good example of a positive direction, as they include a much larger role for ICT in education.

The future of broadband

Last but not least, the future…

While promoting the development of national broadband access and affordability policies continues to be the key goal for the Commission, the focus is starting to shift towards 'broadband as a catalyst for social and economic transformation'. According to Ericsson, 6.5 billion people will be connected to the internet by 2018, and by that time 95% of the global population will have access to mobile technology, with the majority having access to a smartphone.

Several Commissioners were very pleased that access is well and truly underway in many developing countries, and noted that policy development now needs to encompass the demand side (services and applications). While progress has been made in bridging the digital divide, there is now a growing policy gap. This exists particularly in relation to government policies towards the development of e-health, e-education, e-government and e-commerce. There is increased awareness among governments and politicians that their citizens have a right to information, but the problem is that most of that information is not yet available. There is an urgent need to ensure that the supply side in relation to the broadband revolution is addressed as well.

This was demonstrated by an example from India, where the government is presented with one million questions per day. A reply often takes 90 days or more, and, depending upon who answers it, the same question can supply different answers. Imagine the costs that can be taken out of the economy if e-government was widely available.

To illustrate the transformative impact of broadband, Ericsson reports that villages in the Amazon that have a mobile base station saw their GDP increase by 300%. This is done through a completely private project known as Amazon Connect.

On the other hand, the American government has calculated that not being connected to the internet creates an extra cost to the economy of $70,000 per year per family. Internet access allows families and the government to remove costs from their social and economic expenditure.

Another interesting observation is that there has been much faster growth in technology than there has been in the generation of government policies. Governments need to be made aware of the rapidly increasing gap between technology and policy. While this is an international problem — western governments are also struggling with such policies — the gap is growing most quickly in the least developed economies, and the Commission is committed to placing its full network of Commissioners behind the notion of assisting these countries in policy development. The key here is to lower the costs and give these countries complete solutions.

Written by Paul Budde, Managing Director of Paul Budde Communication

The demand for these connected 'things' is creating an exploding demand for the M2M (Machine to Machine) communication system since the 'things' need to communicate among themselves or with a central controller, most often wirelessly. This M2M wireless communication demand is changing wireless operators' business models. Human users normally use high data rates and yield high ARPU, while most M2M communications generate much less data but also yields much lower ARPU. Wireless carriers now need to support many more of these low ARPU 'things' than they had designed their network to handle.

Although data demands from humans and M2Ms differ, further complicating the matter is the fact that each creates about the same amount of signaling load with current network designs. Since signaling traffic is generally not monetized, this load creates immense pressure on mobile operators. Hence, mobile operators need to rethink signaling traffic and implement lightweight policy-based controls for the M2M communications.

The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is creating standards for M2M that state that devices should not need MSISDNs (Mobile Subscriber ISDN Numbers), and thus the traditional way of addressing mobile devices through their phone numbers is no longer applicable. Although the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) can be used by an operator to locate a desired device, it is undesirable to use this identifier by anyone outside the operator's domain because eavesdroppers can potentially identify and misuse customer information. Therefore, to identify devices outside of the operator's domain it is required that all devices be assigned static host names that can be used to always reach the device. This creates requirements for DDNS to store the mapping between these names and IP addresses while also mandating the use of DNS queries to locate the communication end points. Considering the sheer amount of M2M devices and projected traffic, it is important that the DNS is able to handle billions of records and thousands of DDNS updates per second while maintaining low latency and high performance to allow for fast and reliable M2M communications.

Other features important for M2M are policies to control the enormous volume of M2M communications and how to handle operational issues, such as misbehaving or stolen devices. Implementation of these policies at the DNS server can provide a lightweight and efficient way for operators to control traffic and access patterns without any in-line overhead and extra equipment. Further, DNS policies can easily be made flexible and extensible to allow for various controls (such as a time based control, an access control, etc.)

There are many other issues with M2M communications (such as heavy traffic demands on P-GWs (Packet Gateways)) that can benefit from a proper DNS-based APN (Access Point Name) architecture. We will address those and dive deeper into the DNS guidelines for M2M communications in future posts, so stay tuned.

Written by Manjari Asawa, Mobile Product Manager at Nominum

More than 150,000 attendees made the trek to what became a technology mecca for the week — the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) and nearby hotels. Even with 1.92 million net square feet of exhibition space, the sprawling LVCC still seemed too small for the estimated 20,000 products launched at this year's event.

But why should MSOs care about a "consumer" electronics show? The answer is simple — cable and wireline operators serve consumers and therefore need to follow consumers' behavioral trends and their communication and entertainment consumption patterns. Most importantly, MSOs should know what new technologies are enhancing, or perhaps even disrupting, the current ecosystem of content distribution, servicing, merchandising, and the status quo.

Personally, I was dazzled by the array of technology gadgets on display. Ultra HD TV, 4k TV, and OLED TV — these giant TVs all had crisp images like nothing we've seen before. The smartphones were even smarter and had more innovative features, while the energy-saving devices and smartphone-controlled home monitoring/controlling systems were just as impressive. The electronics industry is even doing good for our health with the development of new fitness machines.

Oh yes, it's a show in every sense of the word. Exhibitors came to show off, to shock and awe us. CES is an international event, with attendees arriving from over 170 countries, presenters conducting conversations in many languages, and signage around the show catering to the large non-English-speaking constituency.

Standing in the middle of a sea of gadgets, it occurred to me that CES is actually quite like a fashion show (not that I've been to one recently, but we've all seen them on TV). When you see the haute couture of high fashion, you sometimes wonder, yes, it's exciting and "out of the box", but who's going to wear it in their daily life? You couldn't help but think the same thing at CES. Yes, this transparent TV looks cool, but not in my living room. Yes, this 6.1-inch smartphone seems nice, but I'd rather not hold a brick to my ear when I call someone. Even some of the giant displays seemed more suitable for commercial use, such as merchant windows, rather than for "consumers" in the living room. The exhibition is to show how much and how far we can push technology.

Maybe that's the whole point. Shock and awe, draw the crowd in, create buzz, and push out the product — that could be the scheme all along. Who can blame these exhibitors for showing off when they face over 3,000 other exhibitors? If attendees split the show up by the number of exhibits they want to see, a marketer only has a few minutes to get an attendee's attention. Even with a smaller budget, you need to be able to stand out. If nothing else, CES demonstrates how important it is to market your product or your brand.

So does all this attention-seeking actually work? You bet. I've heard at least one cable operator say that in the past, they finalized their year's budget by November/December, but after visiting CES in January, they had to go home and change it.

People came to CES to make contacts, and learn about the next hot consumer trends. There were talks of OTT-services bypassing the cable distribution channel altogether; talks of new channels that allow a la carte services for less than $10 a month; and talks of an all-in-one ultimate device, powerful enough to fire up all the apps that allow you to work, watch a movie, make a phone call, and socialize on social media, while still light enough to hold in one hand, and with enough battery power to last more than a day.

I'm sure behind the brouhaha, deals were made, hands shaken, and contracts signed. For this onlooker, I made a deal buying a set of massage gadgets for the wife at home. We both came out happy…

Written by Will Yan, Senior VP, Worldwide Sales at Incognito Software

Smartphone growth in China as of Q3 2012 – scale on left is in hundreds of millions of smartphone units; scale on the right is sequential quarterly growth rate.

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#2		Trademarking .generics - the .bank Fiasco!by Konstantinos Komaitis | Jan 18, 2012 | Viewed 17,124 times
#3		Refusing REFUSEDby Paul Vixie | Jan 11, 2012 | Viewed 11,860 times
#4		MegaBust's MegaQuestions Cloud the Net's Futureby Philip S Corwin | Feb 13, 2012 | Viewed 10,430 times
#5		Anonymous Plans to Go After DNS Root Servers. What Will Be the US's Response?by Terry Zink | Feb 15, 2012 | Viewed 9,813 times
#6		Why the Dot Com Kingdom Will Continue to Rule Post New gTLDsby Naseem Javed | Jul 24, 2012 | Viewed 9,771 times
#7		Fake Bank Site, Fake Registrarby Garth Bruen | Mar 27, 2012 | Viewed 8,977 times
#8		Why Vint Cerf is Wrongby Wout de Natris | Nov 21, 2012 | Viewed 8,891 times
#9		Internet Governance and the Public Interestby Paul Diaz | Mar 19, 2012 | Viewed 8,384 times
#10		IPv6 Subnetting - The Paradigm Shiftby Chris Grundemann | Jul 19, 2012 | Viewed 8,380 times

Top 10 News in 2012:

#1		ISPs Are Not Broadcasters, Says Supreme Court of CanadaFeb 10, 2012 | Viewed 35,128 times
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#3		Vint Cerf: The Launch of a New Larger InternetJun 05, 2012 | Viewed 8,257 times
#4		The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress Announces Keynote, Speakers, Initial PartnershipsJan 08, 2013 | Viewed 7,841 times
#5		Akamai Reports 460 Times Increase in IPv6 Requests Over Its Platform Since Last YearOct 22, 2012 | Viewed 6,976 times
#6		Saudi Arabia Objects to Certain Proposed New gTLD Strings Such as .Gay and .WineAug 15, 2012 | Viewed 6,764 times
#7		Department of Commerce Cancels IANA Contract RFPMar 09, 2012 | Viewed 6,343 times
#8		SPECIAL: Updates from the ICANN Meetings in TorontoOct 17, 2012 | Viewed 5,802 times
#9		Most U.S. Agencies Expected to Miss IPv6 DeadlineSep 28, 2012 | Viewed 5,411 times
#10		Websites Go Dark Protesting SOPA and PIPA, Senators Change CourseJan 18, 2012 | Viewed 5,299 times

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#1		MarkMonitor Offers New gTLD Application Databaseby MarkMonitor | Jun 15, 2012 | Viewed 6,992 times
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Nginx, Inc., provider of the high-performance NGINX Web server, and mobile Web technology specialist dotMobi today announced the immediate availability of a device detection module for NGINX using dotMobi's DeviceAtlas® solution.

Speedy, accurate and reliable device detection is critical for serving customers across an increasingly fragmented Web landscape of desktop, mobile and gaming devices. Now, a new DeviceAtlas module for NGINX allows the task of real-time device detection to shift to the server layer from the traditional application layer in the "technology stack." This means all applications above the server layer of the technology stack benefit from world-class device intelligence in real time, which reduces infrastructure costs and optimizes application loads.

Igor Sysoev, Principal Architect and CTO of Nginx, Inc., said, "On-the-fly device detection for large-scale, heavy-load websites presents a performance challenge at the application layer. The DeviceAtlas module for NGINX enables us to offload device detection from applications to the Web server, a logical step that helps us ensure the best possible customer experience."

dotMobi developed the DeviceAtlas module in close collaboration with Nginx, Inc. To ensure that the module worked as designed, dotMobi enlisted online soccer community site Transfermarkt, a long-time NGINX user with Web portals in seven countries and demanding traffic needs to be met. As an example, the www.transfermarkt.de site alone receives 36 million visitors each month, making it one of Alexa's 3,000 busiest sites. The DeviceAtlas module for NGINX gave Transfermarkt the high-speed device awareness they needed to handle mobile traffic and quickly adapt content according to the requesting device's properties.

"The DeviceAtlas module for NGINX is significantly more efficient than integrating a device detection solution at the application layer for a site with our level of traffic," said Dirk Willibrand, System Administrator at Transfermarkt.

Eileen O'Sullivan, dotMobi COO, said, "One of the many ways that DeviceAtlas leads the device detection marketplace is that it was built from the ground up for high-performance, high-speed device detection. Adding this functionality at the Web server layer of the technology stack offers significant advantages to organizations who value performance and efficiency."

DeviceAtlas provides detailed and up-to-date device intelligence on mobile and Web-enabled devices with a high-speed API capable of making millions of detections per second. DeviceAtlas is used by a variety of large brands and Fortune 100 companies, including Adobe, Sprint, IBM, General Motors and Target. The DeviceAtlas module for NGINX is available from www.deviceatlas.com.

For more in-depth information on the DeviceAtlas module for NGINX, dotMobi has a case study available at www.deviceatlas.com/case-studies/nginx-case-study.

Mobile Web technology provider dotMobi and Webtrends, a leader in digital intelligence, today announced an agreement to embed device intelligence from dotMobi's DeviceAtlas® product into Webtrends analytics solutions. That means Webtrends analytics can now include detailed data from DeviceAtlas on which mobile phones and devices — like game consoles and media players — are being used to interact with a customer's online presence.

"As the leader in multi-channel analytics, we are constantly looking to improve the depth and breadth of insight across all digital channels," said Bruce Kenny, EVP of Technology and Hosted Operations, Webtrends. "The mobile and social channels are no longer peripheral — they are core to any digital marketing effort."

Eileen O'Sullivan, dotMobi COO and CFO, said, "Understanding the ways your customer base engages with your content is the cornerstone of a successful online strategy. DeviceAtlas gives content providers intelligence on what devices their customers are using; with that information, they can provide content designed to work at its best on those devices. We look forward to working with Webtrends to ensure their clients have deep, useful analytics on all types of devices."

DeviceAtlas provides information on approximately 10,000 mobile and Web-enabled devices with a high-speed API capable of making millions of detections per second. DeviceAtlas is used by a variety of large brands and Fortune 100 companies, including Adobe, Sprint, IBM, General Motors and Target.

Webtrends analytics solutions have set the standard for innovation and performance, and the company counts some of the biggest global brands as customers, including Associated Press, Barclays, BMW, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and The New York Times.

dotMobi, a leading mobile Web development solutions provider, today announced that Komli Mobile, the global mobile advertising network, has adopted DeviceAtlas® as its device detection solution. Komli Mobile, part of Komli Media — Asia Pacific's leading digital media technology platform, serves more than 20 billion ad impressions in over 60 countries each month, at the lowest-possible latency of less than two milliseconds.

Real-time identification and knowledge of a device's characteristics are required to deliver advertising that works on each requesting mobile device. But with the daily introduction of new devices and operating system revisions, staying up to date with device information can be a challenge. DeviceAtlas, however, is able to keep the Komli platform in concert with the fast-evolving device landscape.

"With hundreds of millions of ad impressions being handled on our platform every day, we need a robust and accurate device detection solution that can give us the intelligence to target and deliver ads accurately, quickly and correctly for our customers," said Amit Bhartiya, VP of Komli Mobile. "DeviceAtlas meets that need for us."

dotMobi COO Eileen O'Sullivan said, "High-speed, accurate device identification is a must for any advertising network. DeviceAtlas can quickly handle the millions of queries ad networks like Komli need — speedily, reliably and accurately. We are proud to help Komli Mobile extend its leadership position through the use of DeviceAtlas."

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RU-CENTER, Russia's largest domain name registrar and Web hosting provider, today announced the immediate availability of the goMobi mobile website builder, for the first time fully localized in the Russian language for Russian users.

The goMobi mobile site builder solution, made by mobile Web experts dotMobi, allows customers to create sophisticated, made-for-mobile websites without the need for technical knowledge.

Mobile Web usage is growing rapidly in Russia, with many people using mobile as the primary means to access the Internet. Alexander Panov, RU-CENTER CEO, said, "We believe that mobile-specific content is a hugely important differentiator for businesses on the mobile Web. We are delighted to offer a leading-edge product like goMobi to our customers."

goMobi is a powerful Web-based tool that lets users quickly and easily create made-for-mobile websites, which take advantage of many features designed for use exclusively on mobile devices like click-to-call, maps and directions, social networking feeds, video, QR codes and eCommerce. RU-CENTER customers can add the features they want to their sites with a user-friendly interface that allows them to see what their site looks like as they build it.

dotMobi COO Eileen O'Sullivan said, "We are excited about working with RU-CENTER to bring goMobi to Russia. As mobile Internet usage continues to increase around the globe, the need for mobile-specific content is no longer an optional extra. That's why the ease of building sites with goMobi is perfect for businesses, whether in Russia or in any of the other dozens of countries where goMobi is available."

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RU-CENTER is the leading Russian domain name registrar and one of the biggest local hosting providers. The company provides full range of domain name services and performs registrar functions for more than three million domains. RU-CENTER has 500,000 clients and 6,000 partners worldwide.