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The early part of July saw England and Australia resume hostilities in The Ashes – the most hotly contested long form competition in global Cricket. Whilst the sport, never mind this particular contest, is well-known but rarely understood outside the countries where it is played, the competition remains the fiercest rivalry in the game's history.

The battle between iOS and Android is usually played out in the battlefield of the high street, where the two key mobile operating systems compete for sales. The relative performance of each operating system can therefore fluctuate greatly: the month after a new iPhone launch iOS devices tend to do very well and the same is true when a new Android phone is launched or a price drop takes place.

The question we asked ourselves at 51Degrees.com was what does the battle look like out in the real world.

Elements of this article were featured in The Register. You can see the article here.

New Properties added to our free Basic cloud product 51Degrees has now added 7 new properties to the Basic cloud service. This means 66 properties are available for free! The new properties include: IsSmartPhone, IsTablet, IsEReader, IsMediaHub, IsTV, IsConsole, IsSmallScreen?

The data in this article was featured on Mobile Marketing Magazine. You can read the article here.

Device Detection is crucial to achieving optimum completion rates in the survey industry. During 2014 FocusVision found their existing device detection solution wanting and after a full evaluation switched to 51Degrees. Read this case study to understand the background, migration process and benefits gained.

Mobile Marketing Magazine use 51Degrees device data comparing Samsung sales and profits against Galaxy S6 web share.

Competition in the multibillion dollar Android market is thriving. Over the last two years it has been notoriously dominated by Samsung. However, Samsung is not the only Android manufacturer in the battle, so the question we posed was which Android manufacturer is the front runner for second place?

51Degrees takes a look at the current state of BlackBerry, here are the vital stats that can help us analyse the possibilities for BlackBerry.

Last week there was 253 Devices added to the 51Degrees device detection database and we will have a look at some of the smart phones and tablets that have been recently released by Archos

The purpose of testing is to investigate the impact of 51Degrees device detection and image optimisation modules on the performance of the DotNetNuke (DNN) Content Management System. The DNN platform was tested with high user page loads. DNN was chosen as a representative .NET platform for testing 51Degrees .NET API.