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Skyfire 4.0 For Android Now Costs Money To Play Video

3:34AM April 22, 2011 | Casey Chan

Skyfire 4.0 for Android has some new customisable options in their ‘Skybar’, which is like a favourites menu that gives you quick access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, a “share” button, and sports, news and finance feeds. But! They’re going to start charging Android users for their excellent video playback feature. More »


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Skyfire’s Browser Is Coming To The iPad

5:20PM December 17, 2010 | Adrian Covert

Skyfire, the mobile browser that will magically transcode Flash vids into an HTML5-friendly format, is coming out on the iPad, complete with said magical Flash transcoding abilities. More »


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Flash Video-Playing Skyfire Browser For iPhone Available Now

5:35AM November 4, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.viddler.com/player/47896bad/","customParams":{"flashVars":"fake=1"},"width":570,"height":360.25,"ratio":0.5625,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"viddler","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

Apple’s deigned to let Skyfire, an iOS browser that transcodes Flash videos into iPhone-friendly HTML5 on the fly, into the App Store, and it’s available in the US now. In my testing it worked pretty darn well. Yup, porntubes on the iPhone. More »


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Which Android Browser Is Fastest?

12:00PM October 1, 2010 | Brian Barrett

One prime attraction of Android? That super-quick—especially on Froyo—native browser. But if you’ve got a need for speed, is it possible that there’s a better option out there? Yes, actually. More »


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Skyfire Killing Support For Some Australian Users

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11:13AM June 30, 2010 | Nick Broughall

A couple of Symbian and Windows Mobile Skyfire users emailed us this week to let us know that they had received notification that the browser was no longer going to be supported in Australia as of July 1. Which sucked, obviously. But despite the wording of the notification, it’s not the end of Skyfire in Australia. More »


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Skyfire For Android Hits The US App Market

7:00AM April 30, 2010 | John Herrman

Ah, lovely: Just in time for the reignited Flash-on-mobile debate, here’s a browser that can actually play Flash video on Android, right now. More »


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Skyfire Browser Is Coming To Android

4:00AM February 12, 2010 | John Herrman

Skyfire makes one of the best browsers for Windows Mobile, a fully Flash compatible app that draws on Skyfire’s server-side compression to make browsing bearable on slower connections. Today, they’ve announced that they’ve gobbled up kolbysoft, the company that makes alternative Android browser Steel. Sounds promising, right? Skyfire’s CEO feels the same way: More »


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Skyfire Browser 1.5 Brings More Speed, Less Ugly

12:30AM December 10, 2009 | John Herrman

Love that Skyfire can play any Flash videos, and optimise websites to load incredibly fast, but hate that it, well, kind of looks like ass in the process? So does Skyfire! Which is why they’ve release version 1.5. It’s wonderful. More »


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The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: Fancy Browsing, VoIP Magic, And An App Store

6:00AM August 10, 2009 | John Herrman

You name it, we’ve got it: Sexy search tools! Google Voice! Upstart app stores! Maps, with stuff on them! Radio! Emulators, from the future! Fresh new browsers! It’s all in a day’s month’s work for Windows Mobile. More »


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Skyfire For BlackBerry Hits Beta

1:10AM July 14, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The Javascript performance of BlackBerry’s browser is atrocious, so thank Jebus for Skyfire—it’s just hit beta for BlackBerry, with keyboard shortcuts, contextual zooming, and bugfixes galore. They’re still having overcapacity problems, so skip for mission critical browsing. [Crackberry] More »