Apple’s new social network for music fans, Ping, has had a rough start. People didn’t expect it to be a Facebook for music right away but they did expect more from Apple. After years of social media ...

The 'ping' command on most flavors of Unix has a nifty little feature that lets you select which port to ping on. It's handy when troubleshooting network applications. For example, if some wierd app.

“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

Apple has quietly launched Ping, its social network designed to drive sales of digital music, for the iPad, now available within the iTunes app. The addition became available this weekend without the ...

Apple unveiled Ping yesterday at the company's annual music event in San Francisco. The new social network works as a music-centered community that exists within iTunes. The announcement coincides ...

If you’re trying to lower ping & reduce latency for gaming – here’s exactly what we’d do to improve your internet connectivity. Ping is effectively your latency between your PC and a server. Latency ...

Here in the Oregon HQ for macosxhints.com, we’ve got a few devices on our local network. There are the Macs, of course, and a networked Brother laser printer, the AirPort Base Station, and our (rarely ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Apple launching its ill-fated social network Ping, which allowed users to follow their favorite music artists and friends within iTunes and discover what songs and ...

Company's music-centric social service -- largely viewed as an Apple misstep -- becomes obsolete with greater Facebook and Twitter integration in iTunes. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...