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So far, we have received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from users with a regular feature phone. Hundreds of users have sent us spontaneous ‘Thank you’ notes and messages, such as ‘you make me feel like I own a smart phone’. So Squace has significantly improved their mobile internet experience.
We have also been demonstrating the Squace concept to many business users with smart phone devices such as iPhone and Blackberry. Some of them said that they could not wait to have Squace on their phone, some just wanted to find out more and a few were sceptical.

We are now happy to announce that we are ready to release Squace on iPhone and Blackberry to a wider audience. This underlines our objectives of being the best Universal Mobile Interface solution globally and providing content and service providers a unique opportunity to interact with their target audience based on their behaviour rather than their device type. With our 360º distribution engine we also make it easy for B2B, B2C and D2C business’s to go mobile leveraging their existing internet services.
The Squace UMI design is now tuned to different types of handsets. A touch screen device asks for different type of interactions than a non-touch screen device. Until now we have been testing with a closed community who gave us invaluable feedback. For example, we have now introduced the Toggle function between a Grid view (excellent in remote control devices) and the list view (often better on a touch screen device).

Today we have submitted the our iPhone and Blackberry versions to Apple and Blackberry World. If you would like to be notified once the Applications are available in the Appstores just sign up as a regular user and you’ll get notified.

In the meantime you can install the iPhone App on your device via an intermediate procedure. Become a Squace iPhone Beta tester:

We look forward to continue receiving your feedback and suggestions; learning from new users ensures that Squace is as good as it can be!.
Each device platform provides us with key learning’s and user interaction improvements so that these new design or interaction functions can be incorporated into the new device types and platforms of the future. One good example of this are the lesson’s we learned in testing the Squace Android client that are now incorporated into the new iPhone version. Check them out!
Read more about Android version
Read more about Squace Blackberry version
Read more about Squace IPhone version

Squace is always experimenting with soon-to-be-released mobile features at our tech blog: labs.squace.com

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FÖRETAG I FOKUS Han rankas som Sveriges sjätte hetaste it-entreprenör. Nu ska han ta mobilwebbläsaren Squace från betaversion till skarpt läge.

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MOBILIZE 08, SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 18, 2008 – Squace, creator of the free application that makes surfing, searching and sharing Internet content possible on ordinary mobile phones without typing, today announced it won a contract from Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, www.vinnova.se, to connect Stockholm day care administrators, teachers and families using the mobile Web.

Eighteen day care centers in Stockholm serving approximately 300 children and their families will be brought online in September.  During Phase I of the measured rollout, 60 teachers will use Squace’s free mobile Web application to keep parents up to date.  Parents will use Squace to get contact information for the families in their child’s class, scheduling, and school news.

“Managing your child’s ever-changing school schedule can be an exercise in controlled chaos,” said Aage Reerslev, Squace founder and CEO.  “Even though parents may be at a computer during much of their work day the time that they need the school-related information most is when they’re on the run – when they’re in the car or on the train. With Squace they now have fast and easy access to their child’s class and school sites from their phones, any time, anywhere.”

How Squace works
Squace is a free mobile phone application for people who rely on the Internet as their primary source for news, information and entertainment, and want real-time Web content anytime, anywhere – not just when they’re sitting at their computer.  The free software features a uniquely phone-friendly interface that can be continually updated and personalized so the user is always able get to exactly what they want and care about most on the Web.

Squace divides the mobile phone’s screen into a grid of small squares.  Each square is linked in alphabetical order to a Web service or content provider such as a newsfeed, Web site, game or widget.  As the user moves the cursor over the grid, pop-ups appear revealing the connected content.  When the user finds the link they’re looking for, a single click opens the content in a format that is readable and useful on a small screen.

Vinnova project
Under the Vinnova contract each class in the 18 Phase I centers received its own home page that can be managed from any PC.  Day care center staffs have been tasked with populating the pages with useful information and content, such as contact details of all parents and teachers, a picture of each child, and scheduled activities for every day and week.

Invitations have been sent from the site directly to the mobile phone of every administrator, teacher and parent.  Following easy to use instructions, users are now activating their Squace accounts to have access to the sites from their handsets.

“Parents and staff now have instant access to school calendars, any schedule changes, curriculum updates, after school care and activities, emergency information and much more right on their mobile phones,” said Mehradad Ghaffar, manager of the Nockby Day Care Center of Stockholm, the first school to test the Squace application in the Spring.  “We’re already seeing big benefits.”

Funded by Vinnova, which is chartered to conduct Information Technology projects that enhance people’s daily lives, the day care center project is being administered for the Stockholm municipality by a consortium comprising Squace, the 18 schools, and The Research Institute, part of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, which was tasked with studying usage and the proliferation of the Squace mobile Web application.

About Squace
Squace is a free mobile phone application for people who want fast, easy access to real-time Internet content anytime, anywhere.

Squace gives users a uniquely phone-friendly, intuitive interface that makes surfing, searching and sharing Internet content possible on ordinary mobile phones without typing.  Users can continually update and personalize their links so they can always get to what they want and care about most.

For content providers and advertisers who want to use mobile phones to connect and interact with their Internet customers Squace provides a network-independent, open mobile platform for creating mobile sites in minutes and full-blown mobile services in just a few hours.

Go mobile! Download Squace today at http://www.squace.com.

Contact:
Leigh Anne Varney
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Por: Tomás García @  lunes, 11 de agosto de 2008  Nota vista 585 veces

Von Karsten Lemm, San Francisco
Ein neuer Mobildienst will das Internetsurfen auf Handys unkompliziert und schnell machen. Der Trick: Vierecke statt Fenster.
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Squace looks promising, though time-stamp filtering and the ability to add content from the phone interface are notably absent. As for the geometry, Squace’s tiny squares may give way to a squint, but it’s an intriguing form factor that’s despite the uniform sameness is designed very well.
Full story: http://www.frenzyblogging.com/2008/06/05/zumobi-and-squace-read-the-mobile-web-in-squares/

Article in Mobile Choice, 22 May 2008
Save your favourite websites and share them with your friends with unique mobile internet browser…
Full story: http://www.mobilechoiceuk.com/News/Squace+the+internet/1552