Blogs

51Degrees is regularly evaluated against competitors DeviceAtlas and WURFL from ScientiaMobile for performance, accuracy and memory consumption. This blog post builds on a 2015 performance blog with three new commodity hardware benchmarks on; 1) a Raspberry Pi, 2) a low-end desktop PC and 3) a high-end multi CPU server to provide information engineers will find helpful when selecting a device intelligence solution.

The 51Degrees Marketing team headed to Shoreditch Town Hall, moustaches suitably oiled and curled, ready to learn from the innovators and gurus of the AdTech World, London 2016.

51Degrees Data Team presents the latest devices and profile combinations update.

Large bag of crisps at my side and headset on (‘HMD’ if you must), I nestle into the comfiest armchair in the house.  The soft padding of the headgear feels secure and reassuringly weighty as it encloses my skull, and with all peripheral vision also blocked off, I feel I have just announced “Do Not Disturb” to the rest of the household. 

So it looks like the vintage Nokia 3310 that's been living in my pashmina drawer for the past five years might be finding itself a new home.  A handy new German site uses 51Degrees’ device detection software to identify your device and display an appropriate trade-in price comparison table.

Apple fans rejoice, the next iteration of the iPhone is here. After months of speculation a few days ago Apple officially unveiled the iPhone 7 to the eagerly awaiting press. These new devices can already be detected in our world leading device intelligence, today we'll take a quick look at what the public will get with the latest Apple smartphone.

In today’s modern web infrastructures the possibilities for your website are endless, ranging from CMS, all the way to the language your site is built on. Some of these can be quite restrictive, but one thing that almost every website is able to use is JavaScript. This blog is aimed at those who may not be able to use languages such as Java or .NET to access our cloud service and to show you how to get it working with nothing more than basic JavaScript.

A reminder to all our customers that there will be no data file produced on Monday 29th August due to the UK bank holiday. Normal service will be resumed the following day.

This week we would like to share with you the newest feature addition to our device detection, the brand new property "Device Certifications". This property will be available exclusively to our Enterprise edition and will enable the detection of several device certifications, the first of which will be Google Daydream.

The new 51Degrees NGINX module combines patented device detection with the simplicity of NGINX. Detection can be carried out on an NGINX load balancing server with just 1 line in the configuration, and installation requires no changes to the existing web server implementation