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Google have recently announced they will soon change the algorithms they use to determine a websites mobile page rank. These changes will penalise webmasters who have not properly considered the increasing legions of mobile users.

Google's recommendations consist of three officially supported configurations

1. Sites that dynamically serve all devices on the same set of URLs, but each URL serves different HTML (and CSS) depending on whether the user agent is a desktop or a mobile device.
2. Sites that have separate mobile and desktop URLs.
3. Sites that use responsive web design, i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the page is rendered on the device.

All 3 configurations are equally valid. This blog post summarises the important considerations to optimise for end users and search engines.

The CMA Annual Conference 2013 will be hosting talks and discussions around the topic of harnessing the digital economy.

This year James Rosewell, Founder and CEO of 51Degrees will be one of 3 innovative SME speakers to discuss how their businesses have allowed other companies to become successful in the digital landscape.

I've just received a fantastic piece of marketing from EpiServer titled "What Consumers Want From Digital News Publishers". The white paper benchmarks 12 of the UKs leading news publishers, according to the ABCs: National dailies, March 2013, against a set of criteria, including web site mobile performance, for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

I was interested to find out how many of the top performing web sites used server side device detection techniques. Here's my quick and dirty findings.

James Rosewell, founder and CEO of 51Degrees, will be part of a panel discussing individual data usage at the OMA big data event tomorrow.

IsEmailBrowser is a new beta property that has been added to the 51Degrees.mobi property library. IsEmailBrowser can be used to indicate whether a HTTP request was sent from an email client or from a regular browser.

This evening I joined the Queen City DotNetNuke Users Group (QCDUG) for their monthly meeting via GotoMeeting. Thank you Allen, Clint, Fred, Robb and all. We discussed the way devices and technology are changing, the problems this is causing digital content owners and managers, and the solutions available, before looking to the future to discuss strategies that will stand the test of time. Here's the slides I presented and some further links from the event.

From one event to the next, 51Degrees exhibited last week at the InnovateUK 2013 event.

After a great response to our Mobile World Congress 2013 competition we have collected all the entries and are now ready to announce the winner!

This year 51Degrees.mobi is exhibiting at Mobile World Congress 2013 and we would love for you to drop by stand 7E100 and have a chat!

There is also a chance for you to win an Apple iPad Mini by answering the following question:

What percentage of US web traffic generated from tablets during this month was from Apple iPads?

Finally the Blackberry Z10 has been launched by the recently renamed RIM (now Blackberry). Our crack team here at 51Degrees.mobi have already had the chance to examine the fancy new device and have added it to our Premium Device Detection Data.