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Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 3
              March 2013
              93 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/2428556
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