Skyfire for iOS now recommends videos like Pandora does music

Not content to simplyplay Flash-based Web videos on iOS, the newly released Skyfire 4.0 foriPadandiPhonebrings you recommendations for other videos you’d be interested in watching based on the page you are currently browsing. Skyfire announced that it had cumulatively crossed over ten million downloads on the Android and iOS platforms in over 150 countries and was launching a major new version of its mobile Web browser today. The new version of the app will offer “Pandora-like video recommendations” from across the Web, based on the content of your current webpage....

2 min · 386 words · Dr. Steven Nguyen

Skyfire update brings automatic discovery of Flash videos to iPad

Skyfire, the most popular Flash-playing alternative web browser for the iPad, was updated on Monday to add automatic discovery of Flash videos to its bag of tricks,as reported by AppAdvice. Skyfire Web Browserwas updated late last year to add support for the iPad. Its hallmark feature is its ability to do server-side conversion of Flash videos on over 200,000 websites and stream them to your iOS device is a format its more friendly towards....

2 min · 258 words · John Adams

Skype 2.1 for Android is out, video calling now available on most handsets

Skype has released anupdated versionof its Android app, meaning that video calling capability is now available on most Android handsets. Wereportedon Skype’s new video calling functionality on Android a month ago, but this was limited to just four handsets: Google Nexus S; HTC Desire S; Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro. With Skype 2.1, that all changes. An additional 17 of the most popular Android devices will now support video-calling on Skype, including:...

2 min · 220 words · Charles Simmons

Skype 2.5 for Android brings video-calling to more handsets, includes ads

Skype video calls have beenavailableon Android since June, though just four handsets were enabled for the service. But with the roll-out of Android 2.1 back in August, this functionality was extended tomost Android handsets. Today, Skype hasannouncedSkype 2.5 for Android, with video support added to an additional 14 Android handsets, bringing the total number of devices that support video-calling to 41, and Motorola now has its first look-in for Skype video-calling on Android, including the Motorola Photon, Droid 3, Bionic, Xoom and the Atrix....

2 min · 337 words · Samuel Lamb

Skype 5.2 for Mac adds group screen sharing and new video controls

Skype has today released an update for the Mac version popular voice calling application, launchingSkype 5.2 for Macwith group screen sharing functionality and new call control features during calls. TechCrunchspotted the update, which follows the release of Skype 5.5 for Windows, which incorporated deeper Facebook integration. Skype 5.2 for Mac also allows callers to “control calls whilst [they] mulitask” – providing a mini call window to manage call options and open new files – features that you may have seen in some of the beta releases....

2 min · 320 words · Roger Shah
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