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Responsive Web Design solves many of the layout problems associated with increasingly diverse screen sizes but is constrained by one hard to justify assumption. RWD assumes all devices should receive the same content and support the same business processes. Read on to understand methods to optimise your RWD web site for mobiles, tablets, smartphones, and TVs.

One-off payments are replaced by in-app purchases, subscriptions and advertising. While the first two are generally regulated and depend on platform vendor, ads are cross-platform and often neglected by both designers and advertising agencies. Learn how to increase user engagement and advertisements efficiency by detecting screen diagonal size of requesting devices.

Looking at the recent report compiled by ABI Research, Apple and Samsung lead the way in tablet sales but the likes of Amazon, Asus, Lenovo, Acer and even Tesco are now battling it out to join them at the top table. We take a slightly different angle on this and investigate where these vendors are in comparison to each other when it comes down to their customers using them to access the internet.

Device detection is usually expected to take a user agent as an input and use it to return a device with the relevant properties. But what if you want to find signatures/user agent strings associated with a particular property? Read this article to find out how to use your 51Degrees data file to retrieve device signatures based on specific strings, contained in selected properties.

Version 3.1.6.6 will shortly be released as stable for .NET with several important changes. PHP to be updated to correctly work with transparent pixels in .PNG images.

Learn which Amazon devices are most commonly used for Web access. We looked at US and UK markets as well as the global Amazon devices popularity.

On September 24th BlackBerry released their newest smartphone. The device goes by the name of the BlackBerry Passport. It is targeted to business professionals and has an interesting form factor. Find out more here.

This week we will look at how the price band of devices used for Web access has changed since January 2014. Data in this article represents aggregated device data in the US. Using the 51Degrees PriceBand property in Device Detection is beneficial for website analytics to gain significant understanding of visitors or clicks. Such data is especially useful when combined with other analytics data and used for the purposes of A/B testing.

Images and graphics can often cause websites to take a significant amount of time to load and constitute a large chunk of traffic. This is especially a problem for devices with slow Internet connection. Using RWD does not eliminate this problem either. This article will demonstrate how easy it is to use 51Degrees Image Optimiser and provide two examples in PHP.

James Rosewell, founder and CEO of 51Degrees will be sharing his knowledge about often unrevealed areas that have an impact on a start-ups success or failure. If this subject is of interest to you, you should come and meet James at this occasion.