FIFA World Cup Mobile Site
As World Cup fever begins to take hold (even for those of us from countries that didn't qualify), I've inevitably found myself drawn into the competition, multi-screen style. Having access to an array...
View ArticleA view from China - big is big
I recently spent a week in China talking about DeviceAtlas and goMobi to various resellers and government officials. On these kinds of business trips, it’s always interesting to see what kind of mobile...
View ArticleWhere's the !@££@$£ content? The scourge of the spandex web.
How has it come to this? The gentleman in the phone shop told me I was buying the latest and greatest phone, yet every site I visit loads at a glacial pace, speeds that make tectonic plate movements...
View ArticleGeofencing, web push and progressive apps are taking webapps to a new place
There’s a lot going on these days in the world of webapps. Most recently, the W3C published the Geofencing API first public working draft. This API allows webapps to register for notifications when the...
View ArticleTranscoders - the technology we love to hate that will never go away
Many years ago I remember a Google product manager saying that his product, the Google mobile transcoder, was the one product that everyone wished would go away.
View ArticleRWD: Responsible Web Design and how websites cope with compromised connectivity
Like most people, I use the internet a lot in the evenings when I have some downtime. Although I live in the centre of European capital city (Dublin) which ought to be fairly weIl served with cell...
View ArticleHTML5 support in mobile devices
Now that the HTML5 set of standards has reached Recommendation status (the W3C's way of saying it's now a published standard) we thought we'd take a look at how support for HTML5 has grown in shipping...
View ArticleUnderstanding web page weight
Page weight is the gravity of the web—a relentless downwards drag, ever present and utterly unavoidable. Understanding it is a critical aspect of a successful web strategy. We’ll be doing a series of...
View ArticleAd Blocker Technology
The increasing trend towards screening out ads from web content using browser extensions or apps has hit the mainstream since Apple added support for Ad blockers in iOS9. Up until then, while possible,...
View ArticleBluetooth beacons beckon bold builders
Bluetooth beacons have always been an alluring prospect for developers. Small, cheap and with a long battery life, they brim with potential save for one fatal flaw: they generally require users to have...
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