Skyfire: the mobile browser that CAN do music

Until recently, mobile wasn't really an option for any website offering streaming music. Mobile browsers fall over at the first sight of Flash, for example, and even the Safari browser on Apple's iPhone doesn't support it. Bad luck if you're one of the mushrooming number of streaming music sites.One answer is to make a mobile application, as Imeem has announced this week for Google's Android platform, and Last.fm and Pandora have launched for iPhone. But even MySpace still doesn't offer its streaming music features in its mobile applications, focusing instead on the less-taxing social networking elements.I met a company called Skyfire today at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London who have a mobile browser that CAN access these sites.So far it's only available for a select bunch of handsets in the US, but the company has plans to expand both in terms of handsets, and geographically (for example, Skyfire should be available to Brits this side of Christmas).Anyway, chief marketing officer Adam Sexton gave me a demo today, including its music aspects. That meant firing up Imeem's website and using it, well, as you would on a PC. The browser is what's called a 'thin client', in that most of [...]