Skyfire Submitted to Apple’s App Store

Just as expected, Skyfire Team has submitted their mobile web browser into Apple’s App store and is awaiting approval.

If Apple approves the app, Skyfire would allow iPhone/iPad users to enjoy Flash content that is being transcoded into HTML5 via company servers.

According to press release, Skyfire Team followed Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and h.264 adaptive streaming.

SkyFire for iPhone to be Submitted Soon

According to MobileCrunch, a company behind SkyFire will be submitting its mobile web browser to Apple’s app store early next week.

If SkyFire for iPhone/iPad is anything like other platform versions, users will finally be able to watch Flash videos or other media content.

Skyfire Labs, Inc. did not comment on the story.

Skyfire Halts Most Countries Support

Just a couple months ago, Skyfire has decided to expand its services and provide with an opportunity to download mobile web browser for people outside the U.S.

Well, it appears that company is backing up this decision. Starting from tomorrow (July 1, 2010), Skyfire will stop supporting countries other than UK, USA and Canada.

Users from other countries will receive the following message:
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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 31st

FavBrowser.com

• Windows Phone 7 to Feature Upgradeable Internet Explorer
With many mobile web browser choices floating around, Internet Explorer is certainly not one of them.

• Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home
Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.

• Google Releases Chrome 5 Stable
Few days ago, Google has released the final version of Google Chrome 5 web browser, tagged as version 5.0.375.55, for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Read more

Skyfire Beta 2.0 for Android (Video)

Skyfire for iPhone is Coming, Possible Flash and Silverlight Support?

Jeff Glueck, the CEO of Skyfire congratulated Opera team and dropped a hint about the upcoming Skyfire for iPhone release:

“Everyone at Skyfire was heartened by this decision by Apple, to open up their platform and believe this sets a solid precedent for additional innovation in mobile browsing from other companies.

Skyfire believes this approval is a solid first step and there’s still major consumer demand for great rich media and video browsing on these devices. Our philosophy is that enhanced speed AND all the rich media of the web can be together in one browser. Read more

Hulu Now Works on Skyfire Browser

Although there is no announcement yet, it appears that Skyfire US users can now access Hulu content, which was previously blocked for an unknown reason.

Weekly Browsers Recap, February 15th

• Microsoft builds panic button into Internet Explorer 8
• Give Firefox Opera 10’s Theme
• Mozilla Developer Preview (Gecko 1.9.3a1) available for download
• Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim
• Rant: Google Translate Toolbar In Chrome 5 Needs An ‘Off’ Button
• Apple Approves ‘Replacement’ Browser for iPhone’s Safari
• Opera beta burns Chrome for top spot
• Opera Mobile 10 Tip: Add More Search Engines to Search Bar
• Adobe apologises for unpatched Flash vulnerability
• Skyfire Acquires kolbysoft To Create Browser For Android Handsets

Thanks to Mabdul for links.

Mobile Browser Skyfire 1.5 Released

A new version of mobile web browser Skyfire for Windows Mobile phones has been released; bringing full vga support, finger friendly user interface, smooth scrolling and much more.

What’s new? Read more

Weekly Browsers Recap, September 7th

• Ruby on Rails vulnerability affects Twitter; IE8 immune
• Microsoft extends IE 8 charity offer
• Microsoft’s ‘Ten Grand’ Competition Ends, Was Actually Pretty Clever
• Firefox upgrade will check for third party updates
• Google Chrome OS to Feature Single Sign-On for Chrome Browser
• Google Chrome Turns 1!
• Opera 10 downloads
• Opera 10 : The Missing Pieces
• SkyFire Raises $5 Million More For Rich Mobile Browser

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