Skyfire mobile browser app brings Flash video to iPhone/iPad

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Experience one of the the world's best mobile browser with Skyfire 2.0 for iPhone ($2 app). This is a concise overview of some of the browser features:

- Adaptive streaming technology ensures optimal utilization of network and processor bandwidth (preserves battery life)
- Sharing to Facebook and Twitter
- Facebook Quickview - Check your Facebook News/Wall without opening another app or page
- Intuitive and finger friendly user interface for easy browsing experience
- Load full desktop webpages on your mobile device
- Multi-tab browsing - open up to eight windows and browse simultaneously

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Skyfire Plays Flash Video on the iPhone, Is Now Available in the App Store

SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store http://goo.gl/QkwLu

Updated: 11/10/10

Nokia CEO: “The Internet and mobile are converging and the PC and cell phone are merging.”

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From GigaOM:

“You can’t really call it a mobile industry. Things are quite blurry. The Internet and mobile are converging and the PC and cell phone are merging.”

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Nokia’s CEO on the Challenges & Promise of the New Mobile Industry. GigaOM.

When Phones Are Too Smart and You Only Need 5 Apps

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From the NYTimes:

"The average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses 5 to 10 apps regularly. This despite the surfeit of available apps: some 140,000 and counting.

The next generation of gadget users might prove different, but for now it is clear that people prefer fewer choices, and that they gravitate consistently toward the same small number of things that they like. Owners of iPhones are no different from cable TV subscribers with hundreds of channels to choose from who end up watching the same half-dozen."

References:
When Phones Are Just Too Smart
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/fashion/31apps.html

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White House iPhone app

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The administration rolled out the new White House iPhone app, which you can download for free from the iTunes App Store. It includes everything from the latest blog posts, to images from the photo office, to White House videos – like the one below, for example, in which Press Secretary Robert Gibbs showcases the app:



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For Your Entertainment and Information: Robert Gibbs on the White House iPhone App, 2010.

Tablets, e-readers and netbooks bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops

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From NYT, A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing:

The PC is just not the ideal device for reading. Many companies are aiming their products at the market for reading devices, where Amazon commands a 60 percent share.

Dedicated e-readers, with their black-and-white screens that mimic paper, will survive an onslaught of versatile color tablets from Apple and others due to the benefits of long battery life and reduced strain on the eyes.

“I think the black-and-white readers still survive in the niche market as reading devices,” said Andy Hargreaves, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities. “I’m not expecting the Apple device to be as good as the Kindle or Sony Reader for reading.”

AP video: Tech companies are aiming to bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops by offering new tablets, e-readers and netbooks. The AP's Haven Daley reports from the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Direct comparison: Nexus One vs. iPhone (CNN video)

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