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France and Croatia Mobile Device Trends in 2018 Q2

Aug 29th, 2018

France and Croatia have a lot more in common than being good at soccer. We looked at their device usage trends through April to June in 2018 and found some interesting information. Let’s review their similarities and differences.

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Growing Support of HEVC or H.265 Video on Mobile Devices

Aug 23rd, 2018

78% of iPhone and 57% of Android smartphone requests come from devices that support hardware-accelerated High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC or H.265) decoding. This growing support trend will benefit video streaming companies that architect their networks to leverage HEVC.

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What to Know About eCommerce Challenges in India

Aug 23rd, 2018

A recent joint study published in The Economic Times found that eCommerce in India is a rather treacherous landscape. According to the nine month-long research conducted by Google, consultants Bain & Company and philanthropic venture fund Omidyar Network, these are the following highlights:

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How to Add Image Optimization to Magento 2

Jul 24th, 2018

Whether you’re a massive online retailer or a small mom and pop business, optimizing your image content for eCommerce is one of the easiest ways you can improve your Magento 2 web performance. Here I will outline simple steps to make your images perfectly compressed and optimized across any device. This will improve UX, SEO, and load times—which have been proven to increase eCommerce sales and conversions.

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Great Customer Support Empowers Customer Success

Jul 19th, 2018

Peter Drucker once said, “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.” Here at ScientiaMobile, we believe that too. Our dedicated Customer Support team truly cares about your business outcomes, and wants to help you solve your biggest problems.

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Disrupting the Traditional CDN Pricing Model With ImageEngine’s Smart Bytes

May 22nd, 2018

Recently, we were talking to an industry analyst who voiced an opinion that Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are commodities. CDNs all take the same approach to getting your content there faster.

We agree. We need a new, smarter approach! Something that takes the CDN world, improves it, and stands it on its head. We have built ImageEngine to dramatically improve performance, deliver images via a new, smarter network, and disrupt the traditional CDN business approach along the way.

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Smart Bytes Just Got Smarter: ImageEngine Introduces JPEG2000

May 22nd, 2018

ScientiaMobile has launched full support for JPEG2000. This means that browsers supporting JPEG2000 – typically Safari browsers – will receive smaller size image files with better image quality. According to our tests, ImageEngine customers can expect to save 57% of the payload of the original image by delivering JPEG2000 images to Safari users.

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What is Different about ImageEngine? Proactive Device Detection

Apr 30th, 2018

Other CDNs and Image Management platforms claim to have image acceleration solutions. But when you ask the right questions and look under the hood, they do not have the key ingredient to deliver a truly different CDN service. That key ingredient is proactive device detection. Device detection enables ScientiaMobile to deliver a Smart Bytes image payload.

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WebRTC Support in Browsers is Growing

Apr 27th, 2018

WebRTC is a project that provides web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via simple application programming interfaces (APIs). Many browsers have added versions that support WebRTC to allows audio and video communication to work inside the web page.

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Legacy Package Deprecation for WURFL OnSite API for Java

Apr 25th, 2018

Our team has been working hard on the upcoming release of the WURFL OnSite API for Java (v1.9.4.0), which will be the last release to contain support for the legacy package name (net.sourceforge.wurfl) and the legacy release package. There’s a lot of information below about the package name and why we’re doing it, but the most important thing to know is that current customers need to update to the new package name (com.scientiamobile) to avoid any disruptions to their project(s).

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