Articles tagged with: Web Browser and Opera Mini

Opera to Develop Mobile Web Browsers for China

­Mobile web browser developer, Opera Software says that it is going to develop a version of its browsers specifically for the Chinese market. The company has set up a joint-venture with the Chinese mobile phone distributor, Telling Telecom Development to handle the software conversion.  more

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Google Retakes Top Spot in Mobile Web Charts from Facebook

­The year-end review of the most popular websites on mobile phones using the Opera Mini mobile web browser shows that Google once again rests at the top of the State of the Mobile Web top 30 list. In 2009, Facebook was king of the mobile Web. In 2010, Google returned to claim the top spot among more than 80 million Opera Mini users worldwide, knocking Facebook to the second spot.  more

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Opera Software Opens Icelandic Data Centre to Manage Mobile Compression Traffic

Opera Software has opened a new data centre in Iceland to handle the compression traffic for its Opera Mini mobile web browser. The mobile data traffic for over 20 million Opera Mini users in Europe, Africa and Asia will travel via Iceland when using their mobile phones to surf the Web. The transition is seamless and requires no action from the millions of Opera Mini users.  more

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Apple's iPhone is Most Popular Mobile Web Phone in Myanmar

The latest traffic report from Opera web browsers has found, probably surprisingly, that Apple's iPhone is the most popular handset used by Opera Mini users in the secretive country of Myanmar (Burma). The report also found that Myanmar is in the top-ten of countries in Southeast Asia that use the Opera Mini web browser.  more

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Apple iPhone Accounts for Third of Opera Mini Mobile Web Traffic

Although Opera only released its Mini web browser for the Apple iPhone a couple of weeks ago, it already represents a third of their mobile internet traffic. The release of the iPhone also portends changes to the top 10 list of countries using Opera software. According to preliminary numbers, the United States may soon have the fifth-most Opera Mini users, displacing Nigeria, South Africa and Ukraine on its ascent up the list.  more

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Over 1 Million Downloads of Opera Mini from Apple Apps Store

Apple said "Yes", and iPhone users around the world said, "Yes, please". The Opera Mini mobile web browser was downloaded more than one million times in its first day of availability in each market. Opera Mini is currently the number one iPhone app in the 22 featured Apple App Stores on their site.  more

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Vodafone to Use Opera Mini Mobile Web Browser on Low-Cost Phones

Vodafone has announced that it is to deploy a customised version of the Opera Mini web browser designed to run on low-cost GSM phones. The Opera Mini 5 browser has been embedded in a range of 20 devices as well as being downloadable to over 250 GPRS supported handsets in Vodafone's customer base.  more

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Opera Mini reaches 50 million active users

Opera Software's mobile web browser, Opera Mini has crossed the 50 million unique monthly users mark in January 2010. In just the past year, Opera Mini has seen growth in every geographic location, with the number of users growing 150 percent from 20 million monthly unique users in January 2009 to 50 million monthly unique users in January 2010.  more

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Opera Launches Upgraded Mobile Browser

Mobile web browser vendor, Opera Mobile has announced the launch of an updated version of its software for Windows Mobile based phones. The browser now comes with a server sided compression service, similar to that offered with the Opera Mini browser that shrinks web pages before they are delivered to the mobile phone.  more

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U.S. consumers view the most data-intensive pages on the mobile Web

Mobile web browser developer. Opera has noted that in April 2009, Opera Mini had over 23.4 million users, up more than 140% compared to April 2008. Opera Mini users viewed nearly 8.7 billion pages in April 2009. Since April 2008, page views have increased 249%.  more

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