Blogs
9/11/2013 5:30 AM
Ad:Tech London 2013
A Poor Mobile Web Experience
Today's the first day of Ad:Tech London 2013, “The Event for Digital Marketing”. With 7.6% of web traffic coming from Tablets, and 23% from mobile devices globally in August 2013, the organisers dmgevents should know that mobile is important to web marketing. I was therefore more than a little surprised to receive the following home page, and floor plan when I accessed the events web site on a mobile phone.
9/6/2013 3:22 PM
Budget Lumia 521 Becomes Most Popular Nokia Smartphone
Chart of the Week
With Microsoft purchasing mobile hardware vendor Nokia earlier this week, 51Degrees takes a look at web traffic from Nokia mobile devices over the last 8 months.
9/6/2013 9:10 AM
Apple Expected To Launch New TV and iPhone 5C & 5S
Weekly Mobile News Roundup
Plus Xbox One Launch Date and Android KitKat
9/4/2013 9:53 AM
Device Detection now detects Smart TV and new properties
Premium Device Detection Data is now available to download, which includes 9 new properties.
9/2/2013 9:34 AM
Huawei To Launch 5G Network By 2020
Weekly Mobile News Roundup
Plus O2 and Vodafone Launch 4G In The UK, Firefox 26 To Include A Touch Friendly Mode.
8/30/2013 3:20 PM
Web Traffic From Smartphones Greater Than Ownership
Chart of the Week
Earlier this week Statista released a chart showing the 15 top countries with the highest percentage of Smartphone penetration, based on Google's 'Our Mobile Planet' data. This week, 51Degrees.mobi takes a look at Smartphone web traffic penetration from the same 15 countries
8/28/2013 8:35 AM
HTC Developing Smartphone Operating System
Weekly Mobile News Roundup
Plus the Strengths of Firefox OS and Apple's New A7 Chip Rumors
8/23/2013 7:18 PM
Chrome 29 – Premium Device Data - .NET Users
Update Device Data File
Customer using the .NET version of Premium Device Data should update the device data file to the version published on or after 23rd August 2013 to ensure their web sites handles Chrome version 29 correctly.
8/23/2013 3:25 PM
Web traffic originating from eReaders in the United States
Chart of the Week
With Barnes & Noble's Nook revenue dropping 20.2% in Q1 and Amazon's Kindle range seemingly expanding into new territories, this week 51Degrees takes a closer look at web traffic originating from eReaders in the United States.
8/22/2013 11:48 AM
Google Takes a Stand on Mobile App Doorslams
You have just finished creating your sparkling new mobile business app and are eager to promote it to as many people as possible. You already have a good mobile web audience; why not tell them about your app with an interstitial before they hit your website? Well you see, not only do your mobile web users hate this method of advertising, Google have also taken a stand.