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iPad traffic spikes on the weekends

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2010)

This wild little graph was derived from recent data that was provided by Net Applications (the same data that provided those iPhone stats earlier today). The iPad's Internet traffic has been growing by leaps and bounds on the weekends. As you can see above, over weekend periods since launch, iPad ...

Don't panic over these iPad delivery exceptions

by TJ Luoma (Mar 30th, 2010)

Lots of TUAW readers have written in today, worried about their iPad deliveries. Since they received shipment notices, many folks have been tracking their progress, and are now seeing messages like: UPS INTERNAL ACTIVITY. SHIPMENT IS HELD TO VERIFY COMMODITY DESCRIPTION WITH THE CUSTOMER FOR ...

Flurry data: 44% of apps tested on the iPad are games

by Mike Schramm (Mar 23rd, 2010)

Sunday night on the Talkcast, we pointed out that we didn't know exactly which developers were getting those test iPads to play with. However, we might know just which apps they're testing. According to Flurry Analytics, who have (somehow) been watching traffic from the iPhone OS 3.2, 44% of the ...

A trip around town with Traffic Live from Navigon

by Mel Martin (Nov 12th, 2009)

I've already reported on the updated Navigon iPhone app, [iTunes link] and noted that live traffic info was now included as an in-app purchase. I've spent the last 2 days driving around town testing it, and it works as advertised -- but perhaps in not as many places as I would have hoped. Here in ...

YANA - Yet another navigation app (MapQuest Navigator)

by Mel Martin (Oct 12th, 2009)

If choice is a good thing, iPhone owners have a veritable bounty of navigation apps in all price ranges and features. MapQuest has now released their own navigation app, and frankly it's a mixed bag. Like the AT&T nav app, MapQuest Navigator [iTunes link] needs the internet for its data, so if ...

No need for an app with Sig Alert's maps

by Sang Tang (Aug 16th, 2009)

As TUAW's own Steve Sande noted, one of the neat features of Safari on iPhone OS 3.0 is its ability to leverage the HTML 5 geolocation API. One of the more prominent web-based services to use geolocation is Google's Latitude, which allows one to see where their friends are located and what they're ...

Apple blows past other hardware web sites in May

by Mel Martin (Jun 30th, 2009)

Wow. It isn't even close. Apple blew by HP, Dell and even MagicJack (!) with the most visits to a website in May. According to the people who compile such statistics at Nielsen, Apple drew 55.7 million unique viewers, more than double what next ranked HP did. Much of that may have been driven by ...

iPhone nabs 59% of smartphone 'net traffic, 43% of mobile web traffic

by Mike Schramm (May 29th, 2009)

Fortune has the results of an AdMob survey up, and they're pretty surprising -- Apple has apparently taken over 59% of smartphone traffic on the Internet, and in the mobile category in general, they've got a giant 43% of 'net traffic surveyed. But there's another side here: the report doesn't just ...

Nano crushed by highway traffic

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2007)

We've finally found something that can kill an Apple product: 30 minutes of highway traffic. Sam O. wrote in to tell us what happened to his brother's 2G Nano-- his grandmother apparently found it in the driveway, and decided to pick it up and put it on the hood of his car. He didn't realize this ...

Widget Watch: Dashalytics 3.0

by David Chartier (Jul 22nd, 2007)

Google's Analytics service is a great (and free) tool for anyone who wants to track website visitor statistics. How many visits, who and where they're coming from, what OS and browser they're using, how long they stay - nearly the whole enchilada. To view your statistics in a place other than ...

Monitor your broadband traffic with SurplusMeter

by Dave Caolo (Apr 19th, 2006)

Let's say you've got a broadband connection at home, but your provider puts a cap on your monthly download allotment. That's all well and good until it's the end of the month and you find yourself strapped (you torrent addict, you). Wouldn't it be nice to get a warning before everything goes kaput? ...