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In this article you will discover that 51Degrees for .NET can be used to redirect any devices, not just the mobile ones.

Browser wars will never get old. The amount of browsers out there is increasing every day, but only a few are truly popular. This article looks at 5 most popular browsers in France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.

Last week Google finally put us all out of our misery regarding the "Mysterious L", by officially announcing the latest version of their Android operating system. The new Android 5.0 Lollipop hasn't been officially released yet (Although it has been in Beta for a number of months), but it is already the most eagerly anticipated development for Android fans in a long time, it seems that everybody can't wait to upgrade.

As part of our commitment to providing the most accurate and relevant data we have published a list of external sources used to validate and check the accuracy of our own tests.

Responsive Web Design solves many of the layout problems associated with increasingly diverse screen sizes but is constrained by one hard to justify assumption. RWD assumes all devices should receive the same content and support the same business processes. Read on to understand methods to optimise your RWD web site for mobiles, tablets, smartphones, and TVs.

One-off payments are replaced by in-app purchases, subscriptions and advertising. While the first two are generally regulated and depend on platform vendor, ads are cross-platform and often neglected by both designers and advertising agencies. Learn how to increase user engagement and advertisements efficiency by detecting screen diagonal size of requesting devices.

Looking at the recent report compiled by ABI Research, Apple and Samsung lead the way in tablet sales but the likes of Amazon, Asus, Lenovo, Acer and even Tesco are now battling it out to join them at the top table. We take a slightly different angle on this and investigate where these vendors are in comparison to each other when it comes down to their customers using them to access the internet.

Device detection is usually expected to take a user agent as an input and use it to return a device with the relevant properties. But what if you want to find signatures/user agent strings associated with a particular property? Read this article to find out how to use your 51Degrees data file to retrieve device signatures based on specific strings, contained in selected properties.

Version 3.1.6.6 will shortly be released as stable for .NET with several important changes. PHP to be updated to correctly work with transparent pixels in .PNG images.

Learn which Amazon devices are most commonly used for Web access. We looked at US and UK markets as well as the global Amazon devices popularity.