Humboldt Solutions Ltd

Many mobile data services implement a forced cache on access to port 80. These caches often have the unfortunate assumption that the access comes from a web browser, and that a human being will look at the page. Vodafone completely reformats page content, while T-Mobile simply recompresses images at a lower quality. For [...]

If you’re designing an application where devices communicate with a server over a mobile network, there are trade-offs between implementation effort and data transfer. This may not apply to a consumer application, where the application developer doesn’t have to pay the data charges. But if the application is M2M these trade-offs matter.