
A week with Windows Phone 8
dotMobi CTO Ronan Cremin spends some time with the Lumia 1020, the current Nokia flagship device.

DeviceAtlas at Mobile World Congress 2014
dotMobi and the DeviceAtlas team will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress once again to showcase the latest developments on DeviceAtlas and talk about how companies can harness the diversity of today's web environment.

What is a demand-side platform (DSP) and real-time bidding (RTB)?
Those days when advertisers would buy huge blocks of untargeted mobile advertising with little idea about where or when the advertisements run are numbered, or so we’re told. Today advertising technology is so efficient and so fast that in the time it takes someone to open a mobile page on a site or app, advertisers can identify the opportunity, based on visitor/publisher profiling, bid for and buy the ad spot, and serve the ad. This all happens automatically in real time. Welcome to the brave new world of the demand-side platform (DSP) and real-time bidding (RTB) exchange.

Mobile and privacy: a contradiction in terms?
Over on mobiForge, a report on privacy issues through the prism of the mobile services we use today. Our mobile devices are with us 24 hours, 7 days a week. Even when we are sleeping. We look at how your privacy is handled by the three main communication layers that your smartphone works on:

Mobile and Web: restating our assumptions
Over on mobiForge, our developer related website, we take a look at how thinking about designing and developing for the multi-device Web has shifted over the past few years. As the web landscape becomes more complex by the day, we restate our assumptions on mobile context, web, RWD, content adaptation and more. Head over the mobiForge to see the full article.

dotMobi wins Mobile Entertainment award
We were very excited to have won an award from Mobile Entertainment last week at the awards ceremony in central London.

Customer Engagament Technology World
The DeviceAtlas team will be at the Customer Engagement Technology World show in the Javits Center NYC this week (November 6-7, 2013). If you want to learn about how to bring enhanced user experience to your web experiences by understanding your traffic on a de

HTML5 for the Mobile Web - Forms and Input Types
Over on mobiForge, our sister site aimed at mobile web developers, we take a look at what HTML5 has to offer mobile devs in the area of mobile friendly forms and input types.

SM2 Event in NewYork
I recently attended MMA's SM2 event in New York and was impressed by the amount of energy at the the event. I captured some thoughts on the flight back home to Dublin of some of the headline points I picked up on.

Whitepaper: A FrameWork for Responsive Design with Server Side components (RESS) using DeviceAtlas
Responsive Web Design (RWD) has made a huge impact as an approach to designing for mobile. It has also caused a lot of debate: on the plus side, it allows for one codebase to cater to devices with a range of different screen sizes. On the debit side, serving the same payload to all devices irrespective of device capabilities, screen size and resolution, and indeed connection speed, can effectively close off entire markets to companies who don’t optimize.

Mobile SEO Tips
Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource for mobile developers, Bryson Meunier writes about mobile SEO and how to implement best practice for your mobile site.

dotMobi and Digital Element announce strategic partnership
dotMobi to Offer Mobile Carrier Identification within its DeviceAtlas Solution

Internet.org stresses importance of bandwidth efficiency for web content
Mark Zuckerberg launches Internet.org to spearhead a campaign to bring the world online. Part of the challenge is getting reductions in the price of the infrastructure required to bring underserved regions online.

HTML5 Touch Events for Mobile
Over on mobiForge, dotMobi's resource for mobile web developers and designers, we continue our series on HTML5. This time the focus is on HTML5 touch-based interaction events that go beyond traditional mouse-based interaction including options such as gesture recognition, multi-touch, and more.

Developing with Google Maps v2 for Android
New on MobiForge: Weimeng Lee's how-to on getting Google Maps v2 for Android up and running.

HTML5 Device Orientation API: How To
Over on mobiForge, Ruadhan O' Donoghue continues his series of articles on HTML5 for the mobile web. This time focusing on the Device Orientation API which can report how a device is physically oriented in space through the device sensors.

What does iOS7 mean for developers?
Over on mobiForge, Sean McGrath of The Cloud looks at the new iOS7 and the waves it has created in development and design circles. While Apple's operating system may be due an overhaul, the jury is still out on the beta OS.

Designing for Touch Screen Interfaces
Just published over at our sister site mobiForge, we look at the main considerations when designing for touch screen.

Firefox OS imminent launch
We have been tracking the emergence of Mozilla OS over on our sister site MobiForge. With the OS due to launch in several markets shortly, this article takes a look at the potential impact FIrefox OS could have in the marketplace. Head over to mobiForge to check it out.

DeviceAtlas 4.0 released today: Dynamic Data provides real-time information on a device's context
Today we announce release 4.0 of DeviceAtlas. DeviceAtlas 4.0 represents a significant evolution of the product for dotMobi and our customers. We are very excited to bring Dynamic Data to DeviceAtlas for the first time.