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Sep 29, 2012

Kbps vs KBps – What is kbps?

Kbps is an acronym that means Kilobits per second. It is a unit for the measurement of data transfer speeds and should not be confused with KBps or KB/sec which is used to describe Kilobytes per second

1 Kilobit (Kb) = 1024 bits (2 to the power of 10) “binary kilobit”
1 kilobit (kb) = 1000 bits (10 raised to the power 3) “decimal kilobit”

KBps on the other hand simply means Kilobytes per second.

Kilobyte (KB or K) = 1024 bytes (2 to the power of 10) “binary kilobyte”
kilobyte (kB) = 1000 bytes (10 raised to the power 3) “decimal kilobyte”

Bps means Bytes per second while bps means bits per second and there are 8 Kilobits in every one Kilobyte so if for instance you are downloading a software at 200KBps, then it also means that you are downloading at 1,600 Kilobits per second and vice versa, it’s as simple as that

Our Previous article talked about mbps, you can find out more from that article, like stated in the other article

It should be noted that 1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps (Mbps to Kbps)

Hence 1 Kbps = 0.0009765625 Mbps (Kbps to Mbps)

Tags: Kbps to Mbps, Mbps to Kbps, what is mbps

Source : techtalkafrica[dot]com

Sep 28, 2012

Twitter is under-reporting mentions on iPhone and third-party apps

twitter on mac

You may want to rely on Twitter's desktop app if you want an accurate measurement of how many replies you're receiving.

If you’ve been primarily using the Twitter iPhone app, you may have been missing out on mentions, retweets, and replies. Twitter application Favstar noticed some inconsistencies when its users were unable to see notification Tweets from the company’s accounts, only to later realize upon investigation that viewing mentions on Twitter for the iPhone and other third party clients was unreliable. If you take a close look and compare the desktop app and iPhone app, some mentions are just plain nowhere to be found. Other mentions have been replaced, unusually enough, with older Tweets.

twitter not showing tweets

For example, as Favstar shows in the above screenshots taken from its own Twitter account on the Mac and the iPhone, the Tweets from @BauDaLayla and @PaulShipper have been replaced entirely by older posts.

It should go without saying that it’s incredibly important the Twitter iPhone app display content correctly; mobile usage is only on the up and it’s where the platform is making its money. TheNextWeb found that third-party Twitter clients for the iPhone were also incorrectly displaying mentions. That could suggest the bug is originating from Twitter’s API, and you have to hope a quick fix is on the horizon. 

For now, we’d recommend that you double check your mentions and do a side by side comparison to see if you’re missing anything of significance.


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com