In April, Microsoft added a "mobile-friendly" tag to certain websites found through its search engine, Bing. The goal is to alert users that such sites offer versions designed for better navigation and usability on mobile phones. Search for a certain site or topic on your phone, and you'll see the new tag pop up in the description of the site. But now Bing has more up its sleeve with a new search algorithm that will rank mobile sites more highly in the search results based on certain factors. More people are searching the Web via mobile devices. Around 60 percent of online traffic is now generated by mobile devices, according to a report published in mid-2014 by research firm ComScore. That report pointed specifically to digital media sites, not the Web as a whole. But it does point to the growth of mobile Web browsing. Google itself has found that mobile searches now outstrip those from PCs.

Google updated its search algorithm in April to rank mobile-friendly sites higher in the search results on mobile devices, With Bing following suit, the search engine is putting pressure on website developers to make sure their content can be easily viewed by mobile users, If not, such sites could find themselves sinking lower in the search rankings, In a blog posted on Thursday, Microsoft's Bing Mobile Relevance Team said that it plans to start rolling out changes to its mobile-friendliness ranking in the coming months, The goal is to give webmasters and web developers enough time to tweak their sites to make sure they don't get greenery in the jar iphone case dinged for being uncooperative with mobile users..

A final factor is compatibility. The content on the page should be compatible with the device. As one example cited by the team, Apple doesn't support Adobe Flash on its mobile devices, so Flash content won't appear on an iPhone. Videos that require certain types of plug-ins or other dependencies also may not render properly. Bing looks for such incompatibilities when ranking mobile pages in its search results. A Bing blog from last November offered webmasters some information on making their sites mobile friendly.

Of course, a site needs to be more than just mobile friendly to earn a high spot in Bing's search results, Microsoft will still value the relevancy of a page as a dominant factor, So some pages may still rank highly in the search results on greenery in the jar iphone case a mobile device even if they're not particularly mobile friendly, "Mobile-friendly webpages are key to satisfying on-the-go information needs, so it is important to optimize sites for an increasingly mobile user base," the team said in its blog, "We are very interested in hearing your thoughts on mobile friendliness and any feedback you may have on our plans, Join the conversation about mobile ranking -- give us your feedback through the Bing Listens portal."Microsoft's search engine will roll out a new algorithm that will reward sites that are compatible with mobile devices..

Up for sale since April, the Apple Watch is the company's first wearable device geared to compete in a growing landscape of smartwatches and fitness bands. Designed to pair with your iPhone, the new watch alerts you to incoming phone calls and text messages, makes mobile payments via Apple Pay, and can run a variety of mobile apps. But one flaw, according to the folks at iDownloadBlog, is in the area of security. In response to a growing number of iPhone thefts, Apple added a feature to its smartphone called Activation Lock when it launched iOS 7 in 2013. Automatically enabled, Activation Lock requires your Apple ID and password to erase or reactivate your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, thus rendering the device virtually useless to a thief. iPhone thefts in several major cities have dropped since the introduction of Activation Lock -- also sometimes referred to as "kill switch" technology."But the Apple Watch has no such Activation Lock, according to iDownloadBlog writer Jeff Benjamin. Conducting his own test, Benjamin was able to reset or wipe the Apple Watch back to its default settings, bypass the passcode and then pair it with a different iPhone. Thieves could easily do the same thing, and as a result either sell the watch or keep it themselves.