Blogs

Using 51Degrees.mobi within Sharepoint

by Tom Holmes on Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:27 PM
This blog is a step by step guide on how to to configure Sharepoint 2010 so that it can use 51Degrees.mobi Framework components.
Tom Holmes

51Degrees.mobi Mobile Detection Outside of IIS

by Tom Holmes on Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:51 AM

51Degrees.mobi has a proven record of fast, reliable detection on ASP.NET website but it has always been restricted to environments within IIS. The 1.2 release has now changed this and detection can now be used offline outside of IIS from any .NET code. To show how, I have made two example projects showing local based detection; a lightweight command line implementation, and a slightly more advanced GUI driven based version.

Tom Holmes

How To Add a "Visit Mobile Web Site" Link To Your Web Site

by james on Monday, July 11, 2011 3:48 PM

Forward thinking web sites will have at least 2 different versions of their content. 1 for mobile browsers, and the other for the big screen desktop and laptop devices. 51Degrees.mobi does an excellent job of detecting the device type and redirecting the device to the correct content. To provide users with choice and enable them to switch between the different versions.

Get Your Web Site Ready for Android

by james on Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:41 PM

According to comScore the top Smart Phone OS platform in the US is Google Android.

Top smartphone OS platforms
  Share of smartphone subscribers
Feb 2011 May 2011 Point change
Total smartphone subscribers 100.0% 100.0%
Google Android 33.0% 38.1% 5.1
Apple iOS 25.2% 26.6% 1.4
RIM (BlackBerry) 28.9% 24.7% -4.2
Microsoft Windows Phone 7.7% 5.8% -1.9
Palm webOS 2.8% 2.4% -0.4

[Tables show three-month average Mar/Apr/May 2011 vs Dec/Jan/Feb 2011. Total US mobile subscribers aged 13+]