Content Management Matters ™

Last time we covered Skyfire, those who wanted to browse the Internet on their phones in the same way as on their PCs had to sign up on a waiting list.

Well, now you can kick that wait time to the curb, because Skyfire has upped its game and left private beta. It is now available to anyone in the U.S. with a phone running on Windows Mobile, and it's still absolutely free.

One of Skyfire's new features -- Super Bar -- acts a lot like Google Chrome's Omnibox with its auto-suggest and search capability in one address bar.

Back for a seventh year, EContent Magazine has spent agonizing days, weeks, months -- or just a lot of time, compiling their annual Top 100.

Top 100 what? Well, it's the best of digital content companies in the industry today. You've seen many such lists covered here before, I'm sure.

Jamba, a global provider of digital entertainment services, has just tapped IMImobile to bring content to the mobile frontier, joining brands like Airtel, Vodafone, Cable & Wireless and Google.

IMImobile provides carrier-fit messaging platforms and gateways, as well as voice platforms and content management systems.

On its VAS Network Center in Hyderabad, IMImobile will manage Jamba's mobile services and provide technical support 24/7. Its suite includes community and user-generated content apps, video streaming, caller ring back tones, and interactive portals.

Jamba is part of a joint venture between News Corp and VeriSign. It boasts offices in Berlin and Los Angeles, and it operates mainly in the creation and marketing of mobile ringtones.

EditGrid, a leader in online spreadsheets, today announced the launch of the iPhone Edition of its Web-based spreadsheets software. The news broke this morning at the Office. 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

Ireland-based Research and Markets just added a handy print guide to their digital cache.

Written by Principal Scientist Juha Lehikoinen of Nokia, Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age covers the strategic and business impact of mobile content.

Italian firm Funambol gets vocal about self-titled project Funambol, formerly known as Sync4j, the project's birth name circa 2001. Now the largest open source mobile project, Funambol nears the one million downloads mark and is compatible with approximately 75% of mobile phones sold worldwide -- hardly a laughable feat -- and is in active production and evolution in over 5 continents.

Why does Funambol wield so much clout? Because they've kept their eyes on the core of their project -- modularity -- and haven't veered in the years since.