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Opera Mini Sees 11% Growth in Usage

Opera Mini seems set to become the most popular mobile browser around the world. According to its maker, Opera Software, the application has seen an 11 percent increase in usage during the last month when compared to the previous one. The company announced that Opera Mini reached a number of 40 million users all aro...

26 November 2009
04:34 GMT

BOLT Comes Pre-Loaded on Allview Branded Handsets

Bitstream Inc. and Visual Fan, Ltd. have announced today the signing of a licensing distribution rights agreement according to which BOLT will come preloaded on Visual Fan's handsets. The mobile browser will become available as the default solution on the newest Allview branded handhelds, the two companies revea...

2 November 2009
11:06 GMT

Opera Mini Passes the 35 Million Users Mark in September

Norwegian software company Opera Software announced on Tuesday that its mobile browser solution Opera Mini was used in September 2009 by more than 35.6 million people all around the world. According to the company, the figure marks an 11.5 percent increase in usage from the previous month, as well as an increase of o...

28 October 2009
06:44 GMT

Opera Mini 5.0 to Be Launched Really Soon

Mobile phone users around the world will soon have the opportunity to enjoy a new version of the most popular mobile browser available on the market today, Opera Mini. The company has recently put a teaser on its website that shows that fresh 5.0 version of the application is on its way to handsets in the very near f...

15 September 2009
05:44 GMT

BOLT Delivers over 100 Million Pages

Bitstream Inc. announced today that its BOLT browser for mobile phones managed to deliver more than 100 million pages during its six months of availability. The software solution was released in February, and is enjoying an adoption growth rate of more than 50 percent per month. During the six-month time frame since ...

28 July 2009
11:07 GMT

Skyfire for BlackBerry Now in Beta

BlackBerry users will soon have yet another browser to enjoy on their mobile phones, namely Skyfire, a software solution that has reportedly hit beta. According to the latest news around the Web, the browser has just been released to beta version 1.0.0.12304. Moreover, the news also point towards the fact that the fr...

12 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Opera Intros New KZ-Opera 4.0 Mobile Browser

Opera Software announced on Wednesday the launch of KZ-Opera 4.0 mobile browser in China, in collaboration with Kong.net. According to the company, the new software solution is based on the widely popular Opera Mini 4.2 and comes towards users in the country with speed enhancements and with overall performance improv...

9 July 2009
13:31 GMT

Opera Mini to See Massive Availability in the US

Opera is expected to soon announce to the world a US carrier deal that was speculated to become public at the CTIA Wireless conference this year. The company's chief executive confirmed recently the fact that the Opera Mini browser would soon become widely available on the United States market due to its presenc...

8 July 2009
06:39 GMT

BOLT Mobile Browser Hits 1 Million Downloads

Bitstream's BOLT mobile browser for mobile phones of all types is reported to have registered more than one million downloads in only 18 weeks since its launch. The browser, which was developed so as to offer navigation functionality to a wide range of mobile handsets, from feature phones to high-end smartphones...

24 June 2009
05:55 GMT

Opera Takes the Lead in Mobile Browsing

According to the latest research reports, the iPhone Safari mobile browser has lost the top position on the market in favor of Opera. The research firm StatCounter has announced recently that the iPhone was outpaced by Opera, and that now we have another king in the mobile browsing area. Opera Mobile is reported to...

4 June 2009
05:21 GMT

Skyfire 0.9 Beta Available for Download

Skyfire announced the launch of the latest version of its browser designed for Windows Mobile and Symbian, version 0.9. Even with the new version, the browser is still officially Beta, but it is able to deliver a new FriendFeed-like starting portal, which is meant to offer users direct access to RSS feeds, as well as...

14 February 2009
07:25 GMT

Mozilla Fennec Alpha Spotted, Caught on Tape

Fennec, the Firefox Mobile browser Mozilla has in the works for several mobile phone platforms, including Windows Mobile, was reported last week to soon come out in a Beta version. The web browser was supposed to show up this week on an HTC Touch Pro handset, as the development team announced recently, so that we cou...

3 February 2009
02:39 GMT

Mobile Firefox Aka Fennec Could Be Ready by Next Week

It seems that the very popular Mozilla Firefox browser is finally getting closer to the moment when we'll be able to see its face on our Windows Mobile devices too. The latest news on the Web points towards the fact that the development team is preparing to release the Mozilla Firefox Mobile, which is also known...

27 January 2009
10:22 GMT

Opera Mobile 9.5 Comes with Widgets

On October 20, in Oslo, Norway, Opera announced that the new Opera Mobile 9.5 would come with Opera Widgets. The company presented this release as one that marked the second Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile, and the first beta for UIQ based phones. Developers would also get a S60 Widget manager within the Ope...

21 October 2008
06:10 GMT

Digia @Web Browser for UIQ 3 Out Now

Digia, the Finnish communications solution developer, has recently launched its latest mobile web browser for UIQ 3 handsets, called Digia @Web. Especially created for touchscreen devices, the new mobile browser is based on Webkit, the open source engine that Digia has ported to UIQ, and it's presented as a "bro...

9 October 2008
09:07 GMT

Opera Highlights the Versatility of Opera Mini

Opera, the well-known company behind the popular desktop and mobile browsers with the same name, has issued a press release in which it emphasizes the fact that we do not have to own a smartphone in order to have a good mobile browsing experience. Opera continuously promotes the free-of-charge Opera Mini (already re...

23 July 2008
06:59 GMT

Opera Says Girls Don't Care About Mobile Browsing

A recent report published by Opera, the company behind the well-known browser which "puts the Web on any device", unveiled that women and girls make use of mobile browsing far less than men do.Opera made a survey in order to find out more about who and how is using mobile Internet browsing. The Norwegian company made...

20 June 2008
13:34 GMT

Opera Mini 4.1 Is Official and Out of Beta

Opera released today the 4.1 version of Opera Mini, the popular mobile browser compatible with almost any handset out there. After the 4.1 beta version, which came out at the beginning of April, users can now enjoy the final 4.1 version, for free (as any of the previous releases). Opera 4.1 brings several significant...

13 May 2008
06:45 GMT

Opera Mini Embraces Android OS

Opera made public the fact that its highly popular Opera Mini mobile browser has undergone several changes in its API (application programming interface) to be compatible with Android, Google's mobile platform that should soon run on a wide range of new mobile devices. Recognized as the only company to bring th...

10 April 2008
07:38 GMT

New TeaShark Mobile Browser Aims For Opera's Success

TeaShark is a mobile browser that works on any handset with Java MIDP 2.0, and it was first released in the fall of 2007. Now the browser comes with several enhancements and, according to its producers, it has more features than any other mobile browser out there.Besides having extra features, TeaShark is also free ...

27 March 2008
10:34 GMT

Opera Mobile Abandons Yahoo and Embraces Google

Opera announced that it has made Google the default search engine for its mobile browsers, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. From now on, mobile users that work with Opera can access Google's search engine directly from the browser's start page, for a quick and easy way to get the information they need. The...

28 February 2008
04:38 GMT

Google Introduced an Improved Search Engine for Mobiles

Browsing the Internet via your mobile phone is definitely less effective than browsing from your desktop PC, regardless of your handset's display size. Google knows that (it would be funny not to), and it continuously tries to improve its mobile homepage as well as its search engine for mobiles. The latest m...

29 January 2008
11:28 GMT

Skyfire Browser to Bring Real Web Experience on Mobiles, for Free!

Skyfire Labs, Inc. announced at the DEMO 08 conference the release of the Skyfire mobile browser, set to bring the real PC web experience on mobile phones. The new browser will allow smartphone users to interact with basically any Web page that integrates any Web technology, including advanced Ajax, dynamic Flash, J...

29 January 2008
04:56 GMT

Opera Mobile 9 Is Almost Here

In February 2007 Opera Software announced its plans to upgrade Opera Mobile to version 9 and now Opera Mobile 9 is confirmed to be available at the beginning of 2008 or in its second quarter the latest. The new version will bring lots of improvements, to consolidate Opera's top position when it comes to mobile ...

14 December 2007
04:30 GMT

Opera Mobile, Awarded Best Windows Mobile Browser

The 2007 Best Software Awards by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine found Opera Mobile to be the best browser for Pocket PCs or smartphones. Many may have thought it before, others might have disputed this, but the software's value has just become official.Fourteen independent Windows Mobile experts selected Opera ...

22 November 2007
10:00 GMT

Opera Mini 4 Is Now Ready for Our Mobile Phones

The only company that brings the Web to any device, and we mean Opera of course, released Opera Mini 4, the latest version of its excellent mobile browser that brings us a full Internet browsing experience on almost any modern mobile phone. After the beta version, which came out this summer, now it's time for t...

8 November 2007
06:58 GMT

Opera Mini 4 Beta 2, also for BlackBerry Phones

Opera, considered to be the best mobile browser available, has just upgraded to its second beta version. The software will bring some additional improvements and also better support for BlackBerry users. It's not only about having better support on BlackBerry smartphones, but also on the large number of other up...

31 August 2007
07:03 GMT

New Java Browser for Mobile Phones

Japanese company jig.jp announced that it will make a new version of its "jig browser" available on the global market this summer.Released in October 2004 in Japan, the "jig browser" was the first Internet browser that allowed the viewing of websites meant to be visualized on a PC, on Java-enabled phones. The browse...

13 June 2007
10:00 GMT


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