Women flock to the mobile Web
Aug/100
In just two years, the number of women on the mobile Web has risen 575%, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report, published today. South Africa leads the world’s push for gender equality on the mobile Web, with women accounting for nearly 44% of mobile web users.
Top Industry News for 8-20-10: Nokia acquires analystics firm
Aug/100
Measurement & Analytics:
Nokia acquires analytics firm.
As web surfers share, marketers track.
Social Media:
What Facebook Places means for marketers and developers.
Privacy:
Facebook Places…
[ANN] Apache Tomcat 7.0.2 beta released
Aug/100
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.2 beta. Apache Tomcat 7.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 6.0, including support for the new Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications, web application memory leak detection and prevention, improved security for the Manager and Host Manager applications, Generic CSRF protection, support for including external content directly in a web application (aliases), re-factoring (connectors, life-cycle) and lots of internal code clean-up. The 7.0.2 release contains numerous bug fixes and an important security fix compared to 7.0.0. Please refer to the change log for the list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html Note that this version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems running on different CPU architectures. Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html Thank you, -- The Apache Tomcat Team
Starbucks’ Ambitious Plans for Its Free Wi-Fi
Aug/100
Starbucks is not just offering its customers free wi-fi on the hazy notion that if they spend more time surfing the Web they will drink more coffee. No, the ubiquitous coffee shop retailer has plans…
HTML5 – more web for more people
Aug/100
Open web and mobile technologies are two hot topics among the open-source developer community in Taiwan this year. Opera Chief Standards Officer, Charles McCathieNevile, will deliver the keynote presentation, titled “HTML5- more Web for more people” at this year’s COSCUP / GNOME.Asia, the largest annual free and open source software conference, organized by the local communities. This year, the conference will be jointly held with the GNOME.Asia Summit on August 14-15, bringing the exciting development of open web and mobile technologies and the GNOME desktop environment, as well as how they leverage the world-leading hardware industry in Taiwan. More than 800 people are expected to attend the conference this year.
For Better or Worse, Demand Media’s Plans Tied to Google
Aug/100
Demand Media is beginning to move toward its initial public offering – which could well be the biggest web IPO this year. The company filed a S-1 disclosure with the Securities and Exchange…
Top Industry News for 8-02-10: Display ads attract investment
Aug/100
Ad Technology:
Big money bet on display ad technology.
Privacy:
Microsoft quashed effort to boost online privacy.
What they know about you.
The web’s new gold mine – your…
Top Industry News for 7-30-10: Google rules mobile search
Jul/100
Research & Statistics:
Google owns mobile search.
Google’s search party is over.
What are the web’s top sources of referral traffic?
Mobile Marketing:
Apple starts patenting mobile app…
Top Toolkit News: Web Analytics TV
Jul/100
Web Analytics
Google has been periodically producing a web series called Web Analytics TV. Hosted by Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski, the duo ask viewers to vote on their favorite web analytics…
Bartab App Shoves Aside Virtual Goods Model
Jul/100
A new app by web developer Webtab uses both Facebook Connect and mobile app technology that can be downloaded from iTunes to let users buy drinks – real ones – for their friends. Called Bartab, the…