Most everyone knows that Steve Jobs and the Apple crew will not be sending Adobe, the makers of Flash Embedded Video a Christmas Card this year. Jobs has made comments that HTML5 is the preferred video format used in their devices regardless if 75% of the internet uses Flash or not. So where did that [...]
Skyfire just tweeted that there is an update for the iPhone that has improved Twitter and Sharing. Skyfire Version 2.1.0 which has been one of the iPhone’s most popular apps because of it’s server side rendering of Flash video and converting it to Apple Approved HTML5 for your video viewing pleasure. What’s New in Version [...]
Well this comes as so surprise and just took a little longer than I expected to get an official announcement. Skyfire today has announced that it will “Retire” and “complete the phase out of our legacy v1.0 product on Windows Mobile and Symbian on December 31st, 2010 for remaining countries”. Skyfire had on intended on [...]
I am getting a lot of emails asking and ranting about the latest issues with Skyfire for Windows Mobile. If you haven’t done so lately, try to open the Skyfire Mobile Browser on your Windows Mobile Device and you will be greeted with a message that the servers are overloaded and to try back later. [...]
Good news for iPhone users who have been forced to live without Flash based video content on iPhone’s Internet Browser Safari. Steve Jobs who says “that Flash performs poorly on mobile devices and sucks up battery life.” might be right but according to Adobe, 75% of all online video is encoded in Flash. Maybe it [...]
So MS isn’t even close to the first to have an HTML5 browser out but the download is available now. Obviously the more that people use HTML5 the more the market is pushed that way and iOS, Android and WebOS2 all utilize it. Being that WP7 is built on a combination of IE7 and 8 [...]
PocketNow put the iPhone 4, NexusOne (running 2.2) and a developers LG version of WP7 against each other in a browser speed comparison. You should remember that the WP7 software is old (it’s actually the same build in the emulator so it’s a bit out of date) and the hardware will never hit the streets [...]
Good news for Android as Opera Mini 5.1 has been released. Opera Mini, which compresses data by up to 90% makes page loads much faster. Opera Mini 5.1 features include: tabbed browsing password manager bookmarks and Speed Dial Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone for free from the Android Market, or at m.opera.com. [...]
Skyfire mobile browser users outside of North America will not be happy as they have just announced that they will be phasing out version 1.x: “Skyfire 1.X will no longer be supported outside of North America and Western Europe effective July 1st, 2010.” Worse is that all future development of the Proxy based browser version [...]
If you are a fan of Skyfire then here is a new browser for you to try out! It’s called uZard Web Version 2.0.3.12 and it is a proxy based browser just like Skyfire and also does flash pretty well I must say! I found the user interface very easy to use and uZard did [...]
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