Market Analysis

• What statistics on Internet traffic teach us about mobile development
• Statistics on Internet traffic – tablets and mobile phones compared

Mobile phones, tablets and personal computers vary in capabilities and exhibit marked differences in life-cycles – both between and within device categories. Knowledge of these characteristics is crucial when designing Internet services.

Market Analysis

• Internet-Geschwindigkeit – Kennzahlen für die Entwickler

Each novel communication technology is touted as ushering a new era in efficient distributed services. Drawn-out deployments, stark differences between regions, countries, and operators, as well as technical and commercial constraints must be factored in when designing Internet applications.

Storage Management

• Retrospective review: VMS file system internals

Servers handle and deliver vast amounts of information that require efficient techniques at the levels of persistent storage, caches, and main memory so as to ensure adequate response times for the end-users.

Content Adaptation

• Vers un Internet mobile
• Internet mobile : site Web ou applications ?
• Dimensions of content adaptation in the mobile Web

To make Internet services accessible via computers, mobile phones and televisions, on must take into account fundamental differences in the terminals and delivery channels involved; these ultimately imply wide-ranging content adaptations.

Symbol Encoding

• An introduction to character encoding issues in the mobile Web
• A guide to using pictograms in mobile Web applications
• Designing custom pictograms for the mobile Web
• Domain-specific pictograms for mobile Web applications

Characters and symbols are the atomic building elements of web pages. Developing an appealing website requires knowledge about how they are defined, represented and encoded, what programming techniques exist to include them in web pages, and what are recommended practices.

Security

• Une brève évaluation de la loi concernant les services d'identification électronique

Security appears under numerous guises in our ever more densely connected societies, but although on a technical level security can be analysed under various well-defined constituent aspects, getting it right in practice is a challenge.