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Advanced Web Application Monitoring Tool
Wayzata, Minnesota – June 2, 2010 – Dotcom-Monitor, a leading provider of network monitoring and different analysis solutions, announced that new cost-effective, advanced web application monitoring tool has been released – UserView Monitoring™.
UserView Monitoring™ is browser-based web application monitoring tool, providing real-time monitoring, alerts, and reports on a user’s experience of web application performance and component connectivity. This regular browser-based monitoring tool for web applications/online transaction deployments continues Dotcom-Monitor’s focus on providing cost-effective, external monitoring solutions to administrators for online retailers, interactive agencies, and other industries focused on providing the highest quality of user experience.
Dotcom-Monitor browser-based UserView Monitoring™ solution utilizes a proprietary EveryStep™ Macro Recorder technology. EveryStep™ is a no-hassle macro recorder application, which automatically records “every step” in a user’s experience of a web application. UserView Monitoring™ is used to monitor the user’s experience of online shopping carts, login processes essentially every step in a user’s experience of a website or web application.
“As more organizations rely on interactive systems, it is important for user experience monitoring to proactively mimic the external end-user’s perspective, rather than only relying on passive internal statistical systems,” said Vadim Mazo, founder and chief technical officer of Dotcom-Monitor. “Moreover, much of the marketplace for “user experience” monitoring has been asking for an advanced, but cost-effective alternative. Vendors currently offering browser-based monitoring have a high price point, complicated evaluation/sales requirements, pre-payment pricing, and demand long-term contracts. UserView Monitoring™ offers a simplified, on-demand, and cost-effective approach.”
Rather than a large upfront investment in a system, many organizations user experience monitoring and uptime needs are best addressed by a true on-demand monitoring system with a free-to-try, pay-as-you-go, affordable service, and an automatic scripting process, like the EveryStep™ Macro Recorder. No other advanced browser-based monitoring service offers this combination of services.
Dotcom-Monitor UserView Monitoring™ keeps an eye on the ability of online web applications infrastructure components to establish and maintain user experience from an external perspective. Dotcom-Monitor monitors online transactions and web applications services using a regular Internet Explorer browser acting like a visitor to the website, including: clicking on links, filling out forms, hovering over page elements, and submitting data.
When a problem is detected, the Dotcom-Monitor notification feature sends an alert via phone, pager, email, or SMS. Additionally, real-time connectivity status reports are available via an intuitive online Dashboard interface with detailed analysis of “every step” in the user experience to help pinpoint where the error condition is occurring. This reporting functionality also includes detailed historical reports and charts for service management purposes, including Service Level Agreement (SLA) issues.
With monitoring customers around the world, business success for Dotcom-Monitor is synonymous with network uptime. “Dotcom-Monitor’s UserView Monitoring™ tool provides customers a unique, no-hassle, targeted solution for quickly identifying and resolving user experience issues that affect uptime performance and ultimately revenues,” noted Mazo. Dotcom-Monitor UserView Monitoring™ is available immediately at www.Dotcom-Monitor.com. For more information, please call 1-888-479-0741, ext. 1.
South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm
The experiment transmitted 10 Mbps through a person
The finding may lead to a new generation of medical devices that can monitor blood sugar or electrical activity in the heart. Such devices cut energy needs for a monitoring network by about 90 percent compared to wireless devices running on batteries.
South Korean researchers placed electrodes about 12 inches (30 centimeters) apart on a person's arm, and found that the low-frequency electromagnetic waves travel easily through the skin without any outside interference.
The South Korean study improved on past attempts by using tiny metal electrodes coated with a silicon-rich polymer, which allowed the device to bend at a 90-degree angle 700,000 times without incident. Each electrode was just about the width of three human hairs.
This may not seem all that surprising coming from South Korea, known as perhaps one of the most wired places on Earth for Internet. But we can't help but wonder if the researchers hadn't been watching some Battlestar Galactica goodness, given the tendency for a certain Cylon (played by Grace Park) to plug data cables into her arm for a bit of computer-on-computer consultation -- not that we're talking about brains communicating directly with devices just yet.
[via New Scientist]
The quantity of sites in the Network has reached 150 million
The quantity of sites on the Internet has come nearer to 150 million. According to analytical company Netcraft from the beginning of theis year became more on 40 million, and for last month it has been created 7 million more sites.
The overwhelming majority of the new sites which have appeared in it to year are blogs which number most quickly grows on thematic hostings and in social networks, such as Live Spaces, Blogger and MySpace. However, in October growth of number of new sites occured basically due to registration of new domains at traditional a hosting-providers.
On a background of the tendency of a gain of new sites in a blogospgere leading position borrows Microsoft IIS which use it in particular MySpace and Live Spaces. However the leader of the market still there is its main competitor Apache which share in October has grown for 1 percent. Now Apache borrows 47 % of the market - for 10 percent more, than Microsoft IIS. According to the report, from the beginning of October the quantity of the sites working on the basis of Apache has increased for 3,03 %, and number of the sites using web-server Microsoft, was reduced to 1,29 %