TweetHere in our research and development office in Atlanta, we’re hard at work putting the finishing touches on WhatsUp Gold v14 network monitoring software. The excitement here is palpable–we’re delivering some huge enhancements, and we can’t wait to get them into the hands of our customers. Last week, I gave you a preview of the [...]
TweetBefore you ask: yes, we’re skipping version 13. We’re not an especially superstitious bunch, but it just seems like version 13 might be a bad idea. So we’re on to version 14–which will get its first public exposure with a Technical Preview release in April. If you want to test drive the latest and greatest [...]
TweetSpace, The Final Frontier… Well keeping with what has become a running theme (not purposely, I promise) on the daily tech history posts, today’s two historical technological events in history have to do with outer space. On March 25th, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest and first known moon of the planet [...]
TweetiPhone People’s Choice for Mobile Access Apparently the iPhone is one of the few recession-proof commodities left in the U.S. According to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning, Apple’s cell phone now accounts for an impressive 50 percent of the U.S.’s mobile Web traffic from smartphones. The iPhone made up only 10 percent [...]
TweetRanger 9 Transmits High-Res Images of the Moon On March 24th, 1965, NASA launched the spacecraft called the Ranger 9 which had a mission objective of taking and transmitting high-resolution images of the Moon to the control station, who would in turn broadcast these pictures to American citizens over the television. The significance of this [...]
TweetHulu is Fast Approaching YouTube According to the latest report out of comScore VideoMetrix, Alec Baldwin and Eliza Dushku’s plot to eat Hulu viewers’ brains is meeting great success. In the month of February alone the video streaming site jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S., overtaking both Viacom [...]
TweetGoing Up? Elevators and Space Flight Take Off On March 23rd, 1857, Elisha Otis installed the first public passenger elevator at 488 Broadway in New York, New York. Otis, who was born in Halifax, Vermont, was a master craftsman and began to work on a “safety elevator”, while cleaning up an old factory which he [...]
TweetIt’s Friday and here at WhatsUp Gold that means it’s time for us to help you narrow down how you’ll spend this week’s paycheck. Let’s be frank folks: the time to buy gadgets for the sake of buying gadgets has past (at least for the time being) so here’s a short list of our number 1′s. Well, [...]
TweetEinstein’s Theory of Relativity On this day, March 20th, in 1916, the genius German physicist Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. This theory is what got Einstein wide recognition in the field of physics, and specifically for his theory on mass-energy equivalence which is represented by the common equation E = mc2 . His [...]
TweetHave you ever needed to see all of the groups a device belongs to in WhatsUp Gold? That hasn’t been easy information to find. At least it wasn’t until we released WhatsUp Gold v12.4, which includes the new Device Status Workspace Report. Want to use this workspace report? Then upgrade to WhatsUp Gold v12.4!