Blogs

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.

To celebrate our new office move, the 51Degrees team took to the streets of Reading for an evening filled with tasty food and beverages. We stopped off at the handmade burger Co restaurant that was recently opened in Reading at the start of the year. We all had a great experience, with fantastic food and a great environment; however, there was something that left a sour taste in our mouth.

With HTC's new flagship device being released in the US at the end of this month (if it isn't delayed again!), we take a look at the mobile web traffic from HTC's most popular devices over the last 15 months.

With Google announcing their new rendering engine "Blink" earlier this week, this edition of Chart of the Week shows the percentage of web traffic from Google Chrome Mobile vs the native Android browser over the last 15 months.

Premium Device Detection Data is now available to download.

51Degrees.mobi Detector for PHP ensures that the Premium Data file is kept up to date by offering an update feature that will download and apply any new data released by 51Degrees.mobi. Unfortunately, a vanilla PHP install will only respond to web requests, so cannot be made to update by itself regularly.

This guide outlines how to create a Cron job to automatically update your Premium Data file in a PHP environment.

With both flagship handsets having been released within a month of each other, Blackberry's Z10 and Sony's Xperia Z go head to head in this edition of Chart of the Week.

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!