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Every day consumer electronic vendors fuel the growing demand for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches by releasing new web enabled devices. From the mighty Apple iPhone and iPad to the relative smaller-scale like Gionee, Oppo and Fly, 51Degrees research their devices and enter the device specifications and other information into our database.

For many marketers it's essential to know how each device and platform is performing. 51Degrees provide a tool which aggregates usage information from over 3 billion unique web visits per month and shows vendors exactly how their models are performing by country and month. This information differs to sales figures and show real usage of the web.

4G technology provides mobile broadband Internet access, it is the fourth generation of mobile network. In comparison with its predecessor (3G), 4G has a higher peak bit rates, improved frequency bands and a better capacity for many simultaneous data transfers that are important requirements for the newest mobile devices.

51Degrees is the fastest and most efficient device detection solution to date that has a low memory footprint and easy auto update built into the API. The most common use for the library is with Java servlets. But what if you have an offline project or a custom Web server? Check out how easy it is to integrate the API and use the automatic device data file updates.

Last week 51Degrees data team added 239 devices into the device database. Among them: Microsoft Lumia 640 XL smartphone which was first presented at MWC15 in Barcelona.

Last week 51Degrees added 195 devices into a database, including Asus ZenFone 2 smartphone. This new device was presented at MWC15 in Barcelona and is already in our database. Also now 51Degrees supports iOS operating system subversions.

Published by Digital Marketing Magazine our founder James Rosewell references long established high street retailing to provide a reminder of 5 non technical factors which form the foundations of a high performance website.

It seems that the major phone makers have decided now is the time for us to all buy smart watches but what do they actually do for the consumer. They are supposed to make our lives easier by placing all the information that we were getting from our pocket and phones on to our wrist. But will this effect the way we browse the Internet?

We're regularly asked "How we can achieve 99.9% device detection accuracy?" At the heart of the answer is an absence of regular expressions. In this article we explain why businesses serious about accurate and fast device detection avoid regular expression based device detection.

W/C 30th March 2015 - 3 changes have been made to the meta data to support new sensor types and to better report on mobile devices emulating desktops. 246 devices were added including the LG G Flex 2. These changes were made in consultation with our users and will enable you to detect a couple of newer features available on modern smart devices today.

51Degrees and The Away Foundations' digital globe gained a lot of interest at Mobile World Congress 2015. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) interviewed James to understand more about the background to the project, technology involved and future plans.