Blogs
12/1/2014 9:31 AM
How On-line Gaming Industry Delivers Mobile Web Sites
What can web professionals learn from Black Friday and on-line gaming?
The media coverage of the Black Friday failure of major web sites including Tesco, Argos, Best Buy and Boots highlights how consumer expectation of the internet has changed in just a short period of time. When a competitor is just a screen tap away performance and availability is essential.
11/30/2014 3:44 PM
Make the most of Responsive Images
HTML 5 picture element, srcset and sizes attributes
Responsive Images are on their way. It's official. Designers worldwide now have an exciting new tool that will solve the problem of providing large images and graphics for every device. See examples of using <picture> element as well as an <img> element with srcset and sizes attributes. Learn how you can combine the Responsive Images technology with 51Degrees Image Optimizer to make your life simpler and fully enjoy the benefits of RI.
11/27/2014 3:50 PM
User Agents update
Autumn 'Spring cleaning'
We have removed all outdated user agents from our system. You should find the data file size is now slightly smaller. Detection accuracy and speed won't be affected.
11/27/2014 9:47 AM
Opera Browser
Key figures and statistics
In this article we will take a look at one of the oldest browsers on the market - Opera. We will see how popular Opera is on the global scale and what countries like to use Opera the most.
11/26/2014 8:27 PM
Looking at HTC Desire Eye specifications
The Desire Eye has been successfully launched by HTC. Let's review some of its features and find out how good the Desire Eye is between mid-range line-up.
11/25/2014 9:49 AM
Calculating Detection Speed
How do we know each detection only takes 0.0016ms?
Learn how we obtained the figure of 0.0016ms average time for a single detection. Verify this figure on your system in 4 easy steps.
11/19/2014 4:12 PM
How did Azure Outage influence 51Degrees clients?
Why on-premise device detection rules
Learn how 51Degrees was affected by Microsoft Azure outage on 19/11/2014.
11/19/2014 11:42 AM
Wearables and Android Wear
Smart Technology
Wearable technology has been around a long time, in 16th century China the Qing Dynasty saw the introduction of a fully functional abacus on a ring. However the first wearable digital computers weren't seen till the 1980's, although these were mostly unsuccessful. The first watch phone debuted in 1999 but it wasn't until the late 2000's that we began to see more advanced wearable technology. These advances were made possible by improved battery and display technology as well as vastly aided by new interface standards such as Bluetooth. These early wearable computers would go on to shape the modern smart wearables available today.
11/17/2014 3:34 PM
Nokia - thinking ahead
What's next for Nokia?
On Monday the 17th of November 2014 Nokia has announced an exciting week ahead. What does Nokia have to say about its future, now that Microsoft has taken over Lumia series of smart phones? Find out in this blog post. Updated daily to reflect changes. Updated 20/11/2014
11/13/2014 4:31 PM
Technical review of the Nexus 9
The NEXUS 9 has been successfully launched in collaboration of HTC and Google. Let's review some of its features and find out how good the NEXUS 9 is in comparison with its competitors in the market.