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Mobile browser
Skweezer
Type of site
| Mobile HTML Transcoder
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Created by
| Skweezer, Inc.
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Registration
| Not required, free
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Launched
| 2003
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Current status
| Active
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Skweezer
, formally known as a
mobile browser
. It reformatted and compressed web content in order to reduce a web page's file size and make the downloaded content easier to view on a small screen.
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It was developed by Skweezer, Inc. and initially released in 2003. Skweezer's technology is used to mobilize Web content service by
search engines
,
Web portals
, and
wireless carriers
such as
IAC/InterActiveCorp
,
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Bloglines
,
[3]
and
Orange SA
.
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Skweezer was available in
English
,
French
,
German
,
Italian
,
Portuguese
,
Spanish
, and
Japanese
languages and serves customers in over 175 countries worldwide.
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Mobile browsing innovations
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Skweezer introduced several
mobile browsing
innovations since its inception, including the first:
Controversy
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In 2004 Skweezer became the subject of controversy when
blogger
Jason Calcanis
objected to advertisements being placed by Skweezer on transcoded versions of blog content.
[7]
A debate ensued over the legality and propriety of
proxy-based services
such as
anonymizers
and
transcoders
placing ads against other publishers' content and the scope of coverage under "
fair use
" copyright protection. While the subject is still under debate, Greenlight Wireless stopped placing ads on transcoded content in early 2005. As of June 2010, the ads were being displayed again.
Awards
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- 2008 Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine's Best Software Awards: Winner - Pocket PC Internet: Web Compression Service
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- 2007 MobileVillage Mobile Star Awards: Gold Star - Consumer Software: Mobile Web Content Aggregator / Portal
- 2007 PDA Friendly Website Awards: Winner - PDA Home Page category
- 2007 Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine's Best Software Awards: Winner - Pocket PC Internet: Web Compression Service
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- 2006 MobileVillage Mobile Star Awards: Gold Star - Personal Software: Mobile Web Content Provider category
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- 2005 MobileVillage Mobile Star Awards: Gold Star - Personal Software: Mobile Web Content Provider category
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- 2005 Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Best Software awards: Finalist - Browsers & Web Utilities category
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