Maintenance window outage: Saturday June 21, 2014 starting at 11PM EST. Estimated outage: 1-2 hours Overview: Our servers are located in a datacenter in Chicago. We are in the process of deploying servers to another datacenter in Virginia. This will help eliminate future outages (unexpected outages, or from planned maintenance)Here's a summary of what we'll be doing: * [...]
SMS, APPS & SOCIAL WORKING TOGETHER Something wonky in the design? Check it out on the web for the best possible view. 1,500 App Downloads in 48 hours CFA Waynesboro sent a text message to 13,000 SMS subscribers to announce their new App and received 1,500+ downloads within the first 48 hours. CFA uses the [...]
Early computer viruses spread over what we called "sneaker net," with one infected floppy disk inserted in one computer after another. Online networks make infections move much faster — but, until now, all the infections had been from computer to computer, or server to computer. They had never spread from one disconnected Wi-Fi network to [...]
Over the past few months, various phone companies have unveiled "ultra-secure" smartphones, ostensibly in response to growing concerns about digital privacy in the wake of allegations from former NSA analyst Edward Snowden. Now, one company is making that connection plainly obvious by nicknaming its privacy device the "Snowden Phone." FreedomPop, a company that sells free [...]
Gmail just got a lot faster for iOS users. Google rolled out an update to Gmail's iOS app Wednesday that added background refresh and a simpler sign-in process. See also: 14 Google Tools You Didn't Know Existed With the update, Gmail now loads messages in the background so users can view new emails the second [...]