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By: Rich Mobile Browser Startup Skyfire Snags Travelocity Exec For Top Spot | Tech Fused

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:13:31 +0000

[...] companies to build video apps. Skyfire is free and the only browser of the bunch to support Flash, Silverlight, and a number of other technologies generally reserved for desktop browsers. Skyfire, [...]

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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:57:13 +0000

By: Rich Mobile Browser Startup Skyfire Snags Travelocity Exec For Top Spot | Geek News and Musings

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:55:55 +0000

By: Rich Mobile Browser Startup Skyfire Snags Travelocity Exec For Top Spot | GeekStream

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:57:04 +0000

[...] companies to build video apps. Skyfire is free and the only browser of the bunch to support Flash, Silverlight, … Read the whole story on TechCrunch No Related Post Loading… [...]

By: Rich Mobile Browser Startup Skyfire Snags Travelocity Exec For Top Spot

Rich Mobile Browser Startup Skyfire Snags Travelocity Exec For Top Spot — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:31:03 +0000

By: J

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:06:20 +0000

skyfire allows me to watch hulu on my Nokia E71 . It is a killer app for that service alone

By: Pitulloz

Pitulloz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:38:20 +0000

I don’t try Skyfire yet because I only have PocketPC 2003. I use Opera Mini 4.2 on J9 MIDP emulator. It’s fast and support my work for Yahoo/Google mail with attachment, read news or forums. but Opera Mini have obml propietary format as output that I don’t like. sorry for my bad English.

By: bangchuck

bangchuck — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:14:53 +0000

tell me more bout it guys

By: finally the killer mobile app? « MAT+LABz

finally the killer mobile app? « MAT+LABz — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:00:30 +0000

[...] Ajax sites, and it does it all without the need of downloading separate apps. How? As TechCrunch reports, “[i]t does this by offloading most of the heavy lifting to its servers rather than the [...]

By: luori

luori — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:17:32 +0000

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By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:12:56 +0000

I love my iPhone but competition is great for consumers.

By: Techz

Techz — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:40:09 +0000

Can anyone help me out please with an invite would be great

Techzdfxp@gmail.com

Techz

By: Tech Dreams

Tech Dreams — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:17:39 +0000

SkyFire – A New Revolution In Mobile Web Browsers…

The capabilities of SkyFire mobile browser are amazing and seems to be SkyFire is going to be the first mobile browser that provides user experience close to desktop browsers.
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By: Despite NBC’s Lameness, You Can Get Full Olympics Video On Your Phone. Skyfire Does Silverlight

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:27:37 +0000

[...] top marks goes to Skyfire, whose mobile browser renders not only Flash videos, but Silverlight ones as well. (It also handles Ajax quite nicely, but that is a different story). [...]

By: Despite NBC’s Lameness, You Can Get Full Olympics Video On Your Phone. Skyfire Does Silverlight

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:39:07 +0000

[...] top marks goes to Skyfire, whose mobile browser renders not only Flash videos, but Silverlight ones as well. (It also handles Ajax quite nicely, but that is a different story). [...]

By: grumblingcrustacean

grumblingcrustacean — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:41:57 +0000

It is interesting that they have the symbian beta available, and, personally a happy thing. I am no fan of windows mobile.

What will be interesting to see is how they scale the service out to the general audience. While Windows Mobile has a good smartphone presence in the states, it’s nothing compared to the Symbian install base.

For the company to succeed, execution, monetization, and scaling will be important.

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:44:32 +0000

[...] does not support Flash and so to watch a a video you have to launch the separate Youtube app. (http://www.tech...s60-phones-200-... [...]

By: Luke Janssen

Luke Janssen — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:39:33 +0000

I haven’t looked into it that much, but ex-employee’s story sounds all too familiar. Companies set up almost as shells to raise money, pay some execs more than they are worth, then shut down when salary costs burn through all the money. Like what happened with Amp’d and a whole load of other ones… for shame!

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Fil 3.0 » Blog Archive » Fil 3.0 launch — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:26:06 +0000

[...] Mobile Browser Supports Flash and AJAX – iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile smartphones apparently lag behind the Skyfire browser. When I get a new smartphone, I’ll make some hands-on comparisons. [...]

By: ex-employee

ex-employee — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:58:52 +0000

Sadly enough their management has no clue how to make money (according to what I’ve heard from them). So far they only figured how to waste funds. I bet CEO paid nice bonuses to himself too. They mumble something about “huge ad-based revenue” but modestly stay quiet about their operational cost on all traffic which gets pumped through the proxy servers (to reencode requested web-sites into proprietary format). But anyhow eventually (and very soon in my opinion) Internet bandwidth won’t be an issue on mobile devices and there won’t be a need for handicapped solutions such as Skyfire.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:19:41 +0000

First, I have to set the record straight regarding the S60 browser experience. This article implies that the S60 browser offers a limited WAP-like experience and this company suddenly makes the surfing experience like the iPhone. The S60 browser has been based on the same Webkit source as Safari for some time. Other than a difference in input methodology (button vs. touchscreen) the Nokia S60 browser has been offering the same browsing experience as the iPhone browser for longer–before the iPhone was even available. Just like the iPhone browser, the S60 browser hasn’t supported every function, i.e. Flash, AJAX, etc.. Skyfire offloads this to servers and then delivers it to the browser in a renderable format.

Second, it seems like Skyfire’s functionality will be quickly be incorporated into the browser of high-end phones. Maybe within this year. Its long term relevance will be greatest in low end phones deployed in secondary/developing markets. Even at that, doesn’t Moore’s Law dictate the processing power necessary for a good Flash/Ajax/etc. experience on a cellphone will become cheap enough to be deployed even in low end phones? What is this company’s strategy to stay competitive for 3-5 years?

The writer said he tried Skyfire out on the N95. If he doesn’t like WAP-rendered sites he can get them to render as standard HTML with the S60 browser. The same for Opera-Mini.

I get a sense from this submission that the writer doesn’t know much about mobile phone technology but is more of a trend-watcher.

By: an idiot

an idiot — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:59:19 +0000

stupid brainwashed idiot. read this: http://gizmodo....n-safari-mobile

Opera is much better than iPhone’s browser.

By: an idiot

an idiot — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:50:33 +0000

dude, never heard of Opera Mini browser? FYI, there’s already 45 million mobile users in the world and it brings full-browser to (almost) any cell phone and is, in my opinion, much better and faster than Safari.

By: carlos dudas

carlos dudas — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:58:07 +0000

me too! thanks for the heads up!

By: Mike Cerm

Mike Cerm — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:08:17 +0000

Opera’s been doing this same sort of thing, only not as well, for years with Opera Mini. Somehow, they’ve managed to continue to offer it for free, despite bandwidth and processing costs. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if Skyfire launches with a yearly subscription fee, or something.

This sort of proxy-browsing will probably be with mobile phones for a while. Web-browsing on the iPhone kills the battery pretty quickly, because it has to work really hard, and that’s without Flash support. With Flash, it would be even worse.

Also, lots of web pages weigh in at several megabytes. Even on a 3G phone, just downloading a full page often takes 20 seconds or more. Then it has to be crunched down to fit on screen. A smart proxy, sending you a pre-formatted page with only the information that you need loads much faster.

I’ve been using Skyfire on WinMo for a month, and I also have an iPhone. On Wi-Fi, the it takes the iPhone about 25 seconds to display Digg.com. With Skyfire, Digg opens in about 5 seconds, and the processor in my HTC Mogul is 200 MHz slower than the iPhone.