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Most Popular Apple iPhone Launch Results: November to December 2017

Dec 20th, 2017

At the beginning of the iPhone X launch, there were many challenges to get the phone into the hands of consumers, but one thing is for sure, its select consumer group with a higher willingness-to-pay is smaller than that of the

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Introducing WURFL Microservice for AWS

Dec 20th, 2017

Luca Passani, CTO @ScientiaMobile

“The golden rule: can you make a change to a service and deploy it by itself without changing anything else?”

― Sam Newman, Building Microservices

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How to Correctly Form User-Agents for Mobile Apps

Nov 15th, 2017

Native apps, Mobile apps, or just apps. We call them different things and we use them all the time. From a business perspective, apps complement mobile and desktop sites. They are natural extension of an online strategy.

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Correctly Form User-Agents for Webview Apps

Nov 15th, 2017

Hybrid webview apps are a popular and cost efficient way to distribute online properties through app stores. A hybrid app is a native application with all the bells and whistles, but some part and sometimes even all functionality is developed using HTML, CSS ,and JavaScript and rendered by a webview component.

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JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR Support by Browser

Nov 7th, 2017

The majority  (79.42%) of browsers do not support JPEG 2000 image format. Of the browsers that do support JPEG 2000, Mobile Safari makes up the majority with 14.48% share. All other browsers that support JPEG 2000 have less

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Smartphone and Tablet Portrait Orientation Usage 2017 Q3

Nov 7th, 2017

In previous MOVR reports, we explored how frequently phones and tablets were held in portrait orientation (vs. landscape).  In the MOVR 2017 Q3, we broke out Apple devices from Android.

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Apple iPhone 8 Launch vs. Samsung Galaxy S8

Nov 6th, 2017

Comparing the first 39 days after the launch of the flagship smartphones of Apple and Samsung, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have a slightly faster penetration rate vs. Samsung 8 and 8+. After 39 days, the iPhone 8 Plus had 0.64% and the iPhone 8 had 0.42% of global smartphone usage. Compare this to the first 39 days of the Samsung launch, with the S8 generating 0.40% and the S8+ holding 0.38% of smartphone usage.

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Use WURFL Device Detection With NGINX for Mobile-Optimized Website, Faster Loading Images

Oct 2nd, 2017

Here is a great video of our Founder and CTO Luca Passani speaking at NGINX Conf 2017. Luca gives a quick overview of how to use WURFL InFuze Device Detection with NGINX  to develop a mobile-optimized website.

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What is Device Detection?

Jul 26th, 2017

Have you ever wondered how the model and characteristics of your phone, TV, or computer are being analyzed and used? Well that’s device detection! It allows a website to create a page that’s optimized for a device model, browser, and operating system. Using device detection, websites can ensure a great user experience and improve performance.

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Embracing Enterprise: WURFL is now a Certified Module for NGINX Plus

May 18th, 2017

At the beginning of my professional career I was a staunch supporter of Open Source. As a young engineer, I had no budget, I was not supposed to have a budget, and I had been trained by my years in college to do things without a budget. After all, why use money on projects when using time to hack things together was so much cheaper?

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