Analysts

Device Diversity

ronan — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:08:36 +0000

As dotMobi brings DeviceAtlas to the cloud Ronan Cremin, Director of Engineering at dotMobi, charts the increasing complexity of the device landscape for developers in the first of two pieces looking at device fragmentation.

In the beginning the web was a much simpler place. By the time the web was becoming a mainstream media in the late 1990’s there was only one device through which you accessed it: the humble desktop PC, running one of just a handful of browsers.

dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide

ronan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:21:57 +0000

I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge.

This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.

Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites

ronan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:53:12 +0000

About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is an interesting fact given the all of the recent discussion in the blogosphere of responsive design using client-side techniques such as media queries.

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Jonnycaughtafish — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:54:24 +0000

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The dot conf 2010

daniel.hunt — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:36:51 +0000

Last week (22nd July 2010) I was lucky enough to attend the first ever dot conf in the NCI in Dublin, Ireland.

What is the dot conf?
The dot conf is a new web technology conference for anyone who works, rests or plays with the internet. It’s a one day event and it's free. Essentially it's a teddy bears picnic but with internet folk instead of bears.

dotMobi company acquired by Afilias

VanceMan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:02:10 +0000

You may have heard – or seen the press release http://www.afilias.info/mobi+acquisition – that dotMobi has been acquired by Afilias.

Verizon Wireless opens up to the mobile developer community (for real)!

Ronan_Mandel — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:58:47 +0000

Late last month, Verizon Wireless held an open developer conference down here in San Jose. The conference was notable, important, and relevant to you for a number of reasons.

Battle of the Superphones: Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone - which is a better Web browsing device?

ronan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:40:28 +0000

There are already countless reviews of the newly announced Palm Pre available online. Rather than write another one, we instead are going to focus on what we, and we hope, our readers, are most interested in: how does the Pre fare as a web browsing device. In particular, we're going to test how well it does against its arch-rival, the iPhone. Can the Pre out-iPhone the iPhone? We're going to ignore the app store, the widgets, the battery life, the media player and instead focus on web browsing.

Location, Location, Location

jonarne — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:19:27 +0000

Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure!

Mobile Web Benchmarks: What can you do?

ruadhan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:28 +0000

Yesterday, Gomez and dotMobi published a second set of mobile Web benchmarks. The metrics are taken across three key industries: banking, airlines, and search, each of which represents an exciting and important slice of the mobile Web.

I don't want to analyse the results here (the mobile Web is getting slower apparently!) - instead, I'll take a brief look at what these benchmarks might mean for you as a developer.