Opera News & Articles

Sure, Android is king of the worldwide hill as the most used mobile platform. But iOS is laughing all the way to the bank. A new report from Opera Mediaworks indicates that the iPhone has retaken the lead for traffic volume, while iOS continues to be on top overall for traffic and for making money. 

Start off the New Year with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

Opera Software has released a beta version of Opera for Android. With this release, the company boasts a more organized browser with increased functionality.

Software provider, Opera has announced Opera Mediaworks, a company subsidiary which provides advertising, content distribution and monetization for mobile devices. 

Opera Software, maker of Opera browser, has purchased Skyfire Labs, maker of the Skyfire mobile browser. Purchase price was US$ 155 million in cash and performance-related bonuses, and Opera’s aims include the acquisition of Skyfire’s video optimization technology and access to its position within mobile networks.

Start off Fall with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

Start off Fall with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

Who would have thought it? A group of some of the top companies in the IT industry have come together with the W3C organization to build a new community and website that, the group says, will become the authorities' source for documents for web developers.

  The Chrome browser finally becomes available for Apple devices, giving users an alternative to Safari and allowing Google fans to sync their desktop browser content with their mobile device. 

Facebook is reportedly acquiring Face.com, which is in line with the social network's strategy to remain relevant in an increasingly mobile computing environment. Sources peg the acquisition amount at US$ 100 million.

Smartphones and tablets are now a mainstay in the enterprise setting, and yet most carriers are moving toward capped bandwidth plans rather than unlimited schemes. With media-rich websites resulting in soaring data costs, a business' or user's best bet is to minimize data consumption through compression. The Opera Mini 6.5 release promises to save up to 90% of bandwidth.

So where were we? In the first article of this series, What You Need To Know About iOS and Android, we decided that the wise publisher currently targets iOS first and Android second. In a second article, Data Formats for Fixed and Flowable Content, we agreed that HTML is the sensible way to expose a publisher’s content to the world. Today we’ll talk about how we take this content and create wonderful tablet apps.

Our favorite cross-platform browser just got leaner and meaner, and grew a few new toys. Opera (news, site) has just released version 11.50, which comes with a few enhancements that might have been inspired by some of Opera's competitors. But when you're at the #5 position in terms of market share, you can take a few liberties with your design and still call it a stroke of genius.

Web browsers are often a highly personal choice. You would usually have a preference based on speed, feature set and compatibility. With the recent release of IE9 and Firefox 4 claiming to be faster than ever, tests have been run to determine speed and stability on each.

In many ways people are looking forward to HTML 5 and its expanded list of features. However, there's a number of aspects that have privacy advocates worried. In particular, people are concerned about geolocation. Fortunately the W3C (news, site) is working on solutions.