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Skyfire purchases Steel Android browser from kolbysoft

Phil Nickinson Applications, News Thursday, 11 February 2010

In a bit of an Android browser shake-up, Skyfire -- best known for its Windows Mobile browser -- has purchased kolbysoft, which produces the popular Webkit-based Steel browser. For the time being, Steel will remain in production until Skyfire tools up its own Android product.

The main difference in the current Skyfire browser is that all of the heavy lifting -- as in the actual rendering of a Web page -- is done on Skyfire's servers and then beamed out to your phone. That results in much quicker load times, means you'...

Google Optimizes Google News for Android

Casey Chan News Sunday, 22 November 2009

 

If you're an avid reader of Google News, you might have noticed a mobile facelift of the news aggregator on your Android devices. That's because Google just released the new Google News for Mobile (Android, iPhone, Palm Pre) and as Google explains it:

This new version provides the same richness and personalization on your phone as Google News provides on desktop. Our new...

MWC: Google Demos Offline Gmail for Android

Casey Chan News Thursday, 12 March 2009

A Couple More Tidbits on Android & T-Mobile G1

Casey Chan News Thursday, 12 March 2009

 
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