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ScientiaMobile and HAProxy Enterprise

Mar 13th, 2020

ScientiaMobile develops device detection technology that enables websites to deliver rich, adaptive user experiences. ScientiaMobile provides accurate identification of old and new devices thanks to WURFL, its 95,000 device profiles strong catalog, and thanks to its WURFL Infuze API. WURFL covers smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs, and game consoles. The WURFL InFuze module for HAProxy Enterprise augments the load balancing function with device intelligence, enabling all applications downstream to access device information without maintaining their own Device Description API.

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Lessons Learned from Mobile World Congress 2017

Mar 7th, 2017

Effective Mobile Advertising More Important than Ever

A funny thing happened at Mobile World Congress 2017. It stopped being about handsets. Proof? The biggest buzz went to Nokia’s retro 3310.

It started, instead, to be about “getting the current [advertising] ecosystem working as effectively as possible.” The advertising community has stopped holding its breath for a mobile handset to arrive or relying on network providers to introduce new breakthrough technology.

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Use HAProxy to Load Balance by Smartphone or Tablet

Nov 28th, 2016

HAProxy provides flexible and scalable software-based load balancing. And now with the WURFL InFuze for HAProxy module, you can quickly inject WURFL’s device intelligence into HAProxy’s load balancing logic.

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HTTP and Mobile: The Missing Header

Oct 2nd, 2012

I cannot count the times I heard someone wonder why on earth device manufacturers never added an HTTP header that would make it obvious that an HTTP request is coming from a mobile device. I typically had witty answers to that question. ‘The header existed. It was called UAProf. Apple killed it’.

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