Thursday, 24. September 2009, 11:27:03
opera mini, smw
According to the
State of the Mobile Web report, Opera Mini
gained more than one user every second in August. It crossed the 30 million users mark, up to 31.9 million, and those users consumed more than 200 million MB of compressed data (or nearly 2 petabytes of raw data).
As the report states, it will be interesting to see how Opera Mini 5 affects the numbers.
By the way, these numbers
only represent those who actually downloaded Opera Mini, not preinstalled versions.
Wednesday, 16. September 2009, 11:33:36
opera mini, opera mini 5, tips, opera
...
Opera Mini 5 Beta is finally out!
As you can see, a lot has changed since Opera Mini 4. Here are a few tips on how to get more out of the new version.
Read more...
Monday, 14. September 2009, 13:59:33
opera, mini5, opera mini, shiny
The
opera.com/next teaser page that was published last week is for Opera Mini 5, as confirmed by
Opera's Twitter page and the
Choose Opera blog.
Read more...
Friday, 11. September 2009, 08:18:03
opera, mobile
Less than a month ago,
Jon SvT was listed as one of the
top 40 to watch in mobile by telecoms.com.
Now GigaOM has created a list of the
top 15 mobile influencers, and Jon is on that list as well:
Below are GigaOM editors’ top 15 most influential people in the Mobile Internet; together they make up the inaugural Mobilize 15 Influencers, a list that is going to be published annually in tandem with our Mobilize conference. We have purposely listed them in no particular order
You can read their
reason for including him in the list:
As co-founder and CEO, Jon S. Von Tetzchner recognized that mobile browsers lacked in key areas such as speed and web page rendering, and led the effort to cement the Opera mobile browsers as major players in the space. This push into the mobile phone segment was so successful that Opera is now included on a significant number of smartphones shipped worldwide.
There's even a poll where GigaOM readers can vote for their #1 from the 15 people listed.
Thursday, 10. September 2009, 07:28:44
statistics, onestat
Hallvord has just been looking into an issue with the
OneStat site, and he found that their browser sniffing script is
hopelessly out of date, causing Opera to break. OneStat publishes browser statistics every now and then, but I wonder how reliable those statistics are when they can't even do browser sniffing correctly on their own site...
Friday, 4. September 2009, 06:44:15
opera, news
A Soviet Era-style building, St. Hanshaugen, Oslo, Norway, Europe, Tellus. September 4, 2009 (Opera NewsWire):The official release of Opera 10 has been met with great enthusiasm from almost all 5 Opera users. After a record-breaking 3 downloads within 24 hours of the release, the reviews are raving, and one Opera enthusiast even thinks he will be able to get his older sister to use Opera, boosting the user count to an unprecedented 6 users.
Read more...
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 18:14:38
gmail, opera
Google's
David Bloom (yes, he has a blog at My Opera
) points out that Opera is
the only browser which supports "
<input type="url">", which means that Opera is the only browser which works properly with Gmail's "Insert Link" feature in the rich text composer.
Head over to his blog if you want to see a
screenshot.
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 13:33:26
opera, downloads
Nearly 2 million downloads on the first day of Opera 10 is a nice increase from the nearly 600 000 downloads of Opera 9 in 2006. While it might not be much compared to other browsers with much bigger and wider distribution channels, it clearly shows a decent level of interest for Opera 10.
The comments I have seen on various sites about Opera 10 mostly seem positive as well. A lot of people seem to be switching to Opera now.
Let's hope we can get Carakan, 3D accelerated Vega, and so on into public Opera builds soon-ish (not necessarily this year, but you never know). If you think Opera 10 is fast, imagine what a brand new JavaScript engine and accelerated graphics can do for you...
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 12:44:20
internet channel, opera, flash, wii
...
As you probably know by now,
Opera 10.0 for desktop is finally out.
But that's not all. Your Wii might be glowing blue today with a nice surprise for you: There's a new version available, and it has updated to a more recent Flash version. Not only that, but the Internet Channel (powered by Opera) is now a free download! And if already you paid, you will get a free NES game for the trouble.
Not bad.
The new Flash version
reports itself as "9,1,122,0", but it is most likely Flash Lite 3, which according to
Adobe's FAQ calls itself Flash 9.
The FAQ also states that Flash Lite 3 supports all Flash 9 content except ActionScript 3. If it comes across such content, it will display a Flash icon to let you know that the content is not supported.
It's good to see that Nintendo finally decided to
replace the old and outdated Flash 7 version used on the Internet Channel.
WIDGETIZE