Greenlight Releases New Skweezer, With More Compression

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.greenlightwireless.net/about_us/press/050606_pr.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.greenlightwireless.net/a.../050606_pr.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Greenlight Wireless Corporation today announced the release of a new version of its popular Skweezer® portal, which optimizes Web pages, searches, and e-mail for use on PDA’s and cell phones. Skweezer is both a mobile-optimized browser and a fully functional Web portal, which includes an e-mail client, contacts list, RSS reader, and other useful features. In this latest incarnation, Skweezer's compression and optimization technology has been extensively redesigned to make Web content download faster than ever. For example, a sample page from the eBay Web site has a 238 Kb file size and in testing took an average of 192 seconds to download over a standard GPRS connection. The new version of Skweezer compresses this Web page to 16 Kb and loads it over the same wireless connection in 12 seconds, 4 seconds faster than the previous version of Skweezer. This same page from eBay loads in only 3 seconds with the images tuned off in the new Skweezer."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20050607-skweezer.gif" /><br /><br />There are also some small UI improvements. Sounds like a nice improvement; have any of you regular Skweezer users tried it?

[Menneisyys]

There are also some small UI improvements. Sounds like a nice improvement; have any of you regular Skweezer users tried it?

Will thoroughly test it today evening, I'm pretty sure. It was just a few days ago that I benchmarked (see for example http://www.freeweb.hu/menneisyys/CompressionServices/ on this) Skweezer; I really hope their (top-notch, I'd say) service has become even better since then. Stay tuned - quantitive benchmark results will come soon :)

[buzzard]

Will thoroughly test it today evening, I'm pretty sure. It was just a few days ago that I benchmarked (see for example http://www.freeweb.hu/menneisyys/CompressionServices/ on this) Skweezer; I really hope their (top-notch, I'd say) service has become even better since then. Stay tuned - quantitive benchmark results will come soon :)
I just read your Skweezer write-up but I wonder if I misread part of it. You stated that you have to login into Skweezer after each session is concluded. I use Skweezer daily for all of my RSS reading and I haven't had to login to Skweezer in months. I go to PIE favorites, select Skweezer and when the Skweezer home page appears, I click on Skweezer favorites and select an RSS feed that is saved.

[Menneisyys]

There are also some small UI improvements. Sounds like a nice improvement; have any of you regular Skweezer users tried it?

Will thoroughly test it today evening, I'm pretty sure. It was just a few days ago that I benchmarked (see for example http://www.freeweb.hu/menneisyys/CompressionServices/ on this) Skweezer; I really hope their (top-notch, I'd say) service has become even better since then. Stay tuned - quantitive benchmark results will come soon :)

Retested the new Skweezer service with my test pages. It does have slighty better compression than the previous version.

With the Pocket PC Magazine test forum page I used in my tests, the new algorithm delivers some 3% compressed HTML body size decrease. With the 45k filetest (remember that this test is pretty unrealistic - the PPCMag test file is much closer to real-world Web pages!), the difference is some 30%.

The images are still not downsampled.

Skweezer is indeed pretty good.

[Menneisyys]

I just read your Skweezer write-up but I wonder if I misread part of it. You stated that you have to login into Skweezer after each session is concluded. I use Skweezer daily for all of my RSS reading and I haven't had to login to Skweezer in months. I go to PIE favorites, select Skweezer and when the Skweezer home page appears, I click on Skweezer favorites and select an RSS feed that is saved.


Yes, the text was easy to misunderstood. I've cleaned it up a bit and will also include a lot of new stuff (particularly now that it is also linked from Jim Karpen's latest Web Guide).

BTW, the new URL of the article is http://www.winmobiletech.com/062005CompressionTester/