Mobile worlds

More and more people are using smartphones and tablets every day all over the world. In fact, it’s estimated that by the end of this year, more people will be using their mobile devices to search the web as opposed to desktop internet. All the more reason to make sure your WordPress site is mobile-ready, right? Fail to recognize the strength of the mobile market, and you certainly will miss out on opportunities big and small to reach a larger market of consumers. Luckily for you, it’s not as technically challenging as you might first think to optimize your site for mobile use. Take a look at the following tips to get your WordPress website up to par with the rest of the mobile-ready web. Why Does Your WordPress Site Need to be Mobile Ready? Look around. Just about everyone is carrying around some brand of mobile device. Even kids have them nowadays. Since most people own a mobile phone, chances are they’re reading someone’s blog or website on it. Why not yours? You’ve probably … [Read more...] about 5 Optimization Tips to Make Your WordPress Site Mobile Ready

After ignoring the country in its early years, the social media company is doubling down on the Indian market by rolling out localised versions of its offerings. This includes rebuilding of Snapchat 's Android app with support for nine Indian languages and an India-specific version of its content discovery platform Discover that now has over 85 local channels. In October 2020, it announced its first slate of mobile-first licensed and original shows for the Indian market along with its first gaming partner in the country. To be sure, India was one of the first markets where Snap Inc. made investments to localise its product, including building local augmented-reality creator communities, adding local content, and investing in local marketing initiatives. These tactics form the basis of a "repeatable playbook we can now leverage to drive growth", Andersen said. "We focused on India early because it has a large and fast-growing population of young smartphone users, high-speed … [Read more...] about Snap plans to take its India localisation strategy to the world

Xiaomi, the Chinese consumer electronics company, is soon expected to launch the Redmi K40 smartphone series in its home country. Ahead of the launch, the company has reportedly been revealing information about the smartphone series. According to a report by GSMarena, the company has revealed that both the Redmi K40 and Redmi K40 Pro are going to be backed by a 4520mAh battery. Besides this, Xiaomi has also given a sneak peek at the Damascus steel edition of the device. As per the images that have been shared, the handset has a blade back pattern on the back. Damascus steel knives are said to be sharp cutting blades and the company has reportedly chosen them to represent the speed of the Redmi K40 lineup. The Redmi K40 series is expected to offer two smartphones — Redmi K40 and Redmi K40 Pro. At least one of the two is expected to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. The two models are likely to house an OLED display and one of them is expected … [Read more...] about Xiaomi Redmi K40, K40 Pro to offer 4520mAh battery, claims report

BlizzCon 2021 has come and gone, with the eerily online-only event leaving us with a splattering of new Diablo details. There’s the long-overdue announcement of a Diablo 2 Remaster and the reveal of the Rogue class for Diablo 4 , as well as insight on the new PvP mode (maybe you’re even open to the new details surrounding mobile game Diablo Immortal , now that enough Diablo-related good news sits between us and its disastrous debut in 2018). Diablo 4’s Rogue class unveiled with its very own trailer during BlizzCon 2021 Diablo Immortal will be a mobile MMO, developers reveal at BlizzCon 2021 Hearthstone forges new expansion and takes cues from World of Warcraft with a ‘Classic’ mode But during my interview with Diablo 4 art director John Mueller and lead designer Joe Shelly at BlizzCon 2021, I wanted to find out more about the game’s oft-repeated claims to being an open-world game. We know from everything we’ve seen that in the nitty-gritty of combat, … [Read more...] about Diablo 4’s open world is as Diablo as it gets

Twenty-four days have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished shortly after takeoff, and tweets about the missing plane have hit an all-time low. The missing plane was only mentioned 170,657 times on Twitter on Sunday, according to data from Sysomos , a Marketwired company and leader in social analytics and intelligence. That's a 92% drop from a high of 2,343,994 Twitter mentions on March 24, when Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak held a live press briefing to say the plane’s journey ended in the middle of the south Indian Ocean. See also: Malaysia Airlines Search Area Is the Worst Place on Earth to Lose a Plane CNN, for its part, is continuing full steam ahead in its wall-to-wall coverage of the saga. The network's coverage has propelled it to record audience highs, with Anderson Cooper beating out Bill O'Reilly in the primetime news demo ratings, CNN's New Day beating Morning Joe “in both total and demo for eleven straight days,” and record-high … [Read more...] about People Have Stopped Talking About the Missing Plane