Device Detection

As leaders in the device detection industry, we always keep up to date with the latest requirements. We delve deeper into what our Data Team do to maintain our video player support.

This article talks about the rise in eCommerce sales this holiday season. With in-store retail sales dipping, there’s heavier emphasis on online shopping. Keep up with the Christmas shopping mania, ensure your website is ready and optimized for mobile.

In this 'how to' article we show you how to personalize content using 51Degrees and Squarespace and how doing so allows you to target website visitors in ways that raise the bar above and beyond any of your competitors.

We talk about the day that 51Degrees became the first company in the device detection game to achieve a duo of ISO standards for quality and information security management.

While there are privacy concerns surrounding the use of unique identifiers, Device IDs are useful across a number of ecosystems. In this blog we talk about the various concerns surrounding unique identifiers and how 51Degrees can benefit your business.

iOS 14 is one of Apple's biggest iOS updates to date, introducing Home screen design changes, major new features, updates for existing apps, Siri improvements, and many other tweaks that streamline the iOS interface.

51Degrees released the second and final stage of its post iOS 12.2 device detection solution for Apple iPad and iPhone during August 2019 after extensive verification with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 betas. (iPadOS is formally splitting from iOS in version 13)

51Degrees is the demonstrable leader in the field of device detection, continually leading innovation throughout the past decade.

Apple iOS 12.2 threw up a lot of challenges for many industries such as analytics, finance and advertising. As the leader in the field, 51Degrees adopted an open and transparent approach to the development of a solution, publishing research and examples along the way.

Detecting the precise iPad or iPhone after iOS 12.2 is a bit of a headache, but so important for accurate analytics given Apple's dominance in the tablet and smartphone market. Traditional User-Agent based solutions need to be enhanced with JavaScript.

Yesterday the European Patent Office (EPO) opposition division narrowed Afilias Technologies Plc's device detection patent EP2245836B1 in Europe, as a result of an opposition brought by 51Degrees in 2017 and explained in this blog. The EPO concluded that the patent as initially granted was not valid.