Skyfire
Skyfire
- Conference
- DEMO 08
- Market Segment
- Consumer Software and Services
- Funding Details
- A: $4.8 million of venture capital funding co-led by Trinity Ventures and Matrix Partners.
- Competitors
- Opera
- Product Description
- For the first time, browsing on a smartphone is just like browsing on the PC. Skyfire, a free downloadable mobile browser, runs any site built with any web technology. Whether it’s YouTube videos, Flickr slideshows, web music, Google maps in street view, or Facebook with all its apps– it’s just like the PC. Users get speedy page loads, full audio, video, images, dynamic Flash content, advanced Ajax, Java and more – as quick as their PC.
- Market Opportunity
- According to In-Stat, Smartphones will grow more than 30% annually worldwide for the next five years, exceeding the unit sales for laptops. Berg Insight predicts global shipments of 113M units in 2007 and 365M units by 2012. A Jupiter report concluded unsatisfactory browsing contributes to only 16% of handset owners using a browser to access the Internet.
- DEMO Says
- There’s a strong possibility that every DEMO conference in the past five years has featured a company intent on improving mobile browsing. It’s one of those eternal tech problems that is never solved but which many companies have come *this close* to cracking. At the risk of repeating ourselves - and the risk of overstating — we think Skyfire has finally nailed it. The technology’s speed alone is enough to elicit wows but the no exceptions, full-featured browser experience — with full flash, java and xml capability — settles it. All this without any need for carrier involvement. Try not to stampede as you approach their booth.
- Contact
- Tracy DeMiroz
- tdemiroz@skyfire.com
- Company Address
-
444 Castro St., Suite 130
Mountain View, CA 94041 - Primary Phone
- 650-967-1123
- Primary Fax
- 650-967-1123
- URL
- www.skyfire.com
- Corporate Officers
- Nitin Bhandari, CEO & Founder Erik Swenson, CTO & Founder
On January 7, 2008, Skyfire announced on their official MySpace page that they have signed with Florida-based label Pivotal Rockordings on a three-album deal and the band has now entered the recording studio to begin recording their fourth untitled album. Mixing will be done by Scar Symmetry's Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios. firma webdesign
The iphone doesn't support Flash. This does. So even if the iphone had attempted to show it, it wouldn't have worked.
...waiiit a second now. Because the iphone directed to the .mobi content it's considered inferior? It was a cool demo but that's a pretty lame comparison. Seems like maybe they didn't want to compete with the iphone on even territory
Would like to try out beta.
Want to sign up for the BETA......the demo was cool.
Great demo....wanna get it now!
RAD. REALLY COOL. CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON ONE.
NM found the live feed.
Where on DEMO site do I find feed of this presentation? I'm seeing "no videos available"... Link please.
Very cool. Hope the Symbian version comes out soon!
Smart not to give out the priority code on the feed, I will stop by the booth later.... Thanks for the demo guys, I've been waiting anxiously to see it.
BTW, I am blogging this from the Oasis pool at the Marriott Desert Springs! Cool birds here.
Watching now! I wish I could download the feed easily... PLEASE give us a beta code
PLEASE.... Begging on my knees!!! This is the most revolutionary product to come out since Linus ported Unix to the PC!!!!
- Roger @ WayForward Technologies
Will be waiting for the presentation , I cant wait .
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