Mobile commerce hit it’s stride in 2010 with an increase in the number of visits to Amazon.com towards the end of the year, compared to earlier in 2010. According to the latest Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report which views trends for December 2010, there was an increase in mobile commerce with United States…
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Mobile usage up by 7% on September
Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report for October 2010 shows a continuing upwards trend in mobile usage. In October 2010, Opera Mini had over 76.3 million users, a 7.1% increase from September 2010 and more than 92% compared to October 2009. Opera Mini users viewed over 41.6 billion pages in October 2010 up by…
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Youth say no to the desktop and yes to mobile
A worldwide survey of over 300,000 users by Opera show’s that 18-27 year-olds (Generation Y) use their mobile phones to browse the Web more often than they use a desktop or laptop computer, and the average age for your first mobile phone is 15.5. “We have often said that the next generation will grow up…
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Internet Explorer wins first HTML5 conformance test
The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and the winner is the Platform preview (aka beta) of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9. The W3C tests put IE9 beta release 6 at the top of the HTML5 conformance table, followed by Google Chrome 7, Firefox 4 beta 6, Opera 10.6,…
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Opera joins the Wholesale Applications Community
Browser and widget builders Opera are joining the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). For those of you who don’t know. The WAC is an alliance of the leading mobile operators such as China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and others, that works together to define, create and deploy a common mobile application platform. And Opera is the…
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Opera launch an ad exchange
Seems like everyone wants to own an ad empire, Google, Apple, Microsoft and now Opera. Browser software company Opera has a launched what it calls a “revolutionary platform” for publishers who want to capitalise on the “untapped potential” of the 66.5 million Opera Mini users worldwide. The Open Mobile Ad Exchange service, is a cloud-based…
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Opera’s August figures for mobile usage
Opera’s State of the mobile web report http://www.opera.com/smw/ for August once again shows an increase in mobile usage. The report shows page views worldwide increasing by more than 14% and data transfers increasing by almost 10% from July. More than four million new Opera Mini users contributed to the jump, which is the largest gain…
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Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10
Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10 A weekly round up of things we thought were useful but didn’t have time to cover 1) Are your apps secure? Smartphone security business Lookout has launched the App Genome Project the largest study of mobile apps ever. It’s intended to be an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications…
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Africa went mobile for the World Cup
Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report covers the World Cup and explores mobile web trends in Africa, where growths of 100’s and 1000’s of percent isn’t unusual. Mobile web use is exploding in Africa, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/). Triple-digit growth rates are routine in the region where…
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Opera Mini upgraded for better memory use
Opera have upgraded their popular Opera Mini browser, which should be good news for anyone owning a Nokia S40, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 6300, Nokia 2700, and any one with a small screen including the Sony Ericsson K550i and Sony Ericsson W810i phones. The new version of Mini 5.1, is an update to the recently…
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Mobile viewers do it at night
According to Opera’s monthly stat-fest State of the Mobile Web Report mobile users are a bunch of night owls, the survey found that around the world, 8 p.m. to midnight are the day’s prime mobile browsing hours. Regardless of differences in economy, culture or location, those four evening hours account for a disproportionate amount of…
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iPhone is now the number three device for Opera
Opera’s monthly State of the Mobile Web report includes an iPhone preview and in just two weeks iPhone users have moved to the third-most popular handset for Opera Mini users worldwide. The release of the iPhone also looks like it will change the top 10 list, as according to preliminary numbers, the United States may…
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Opera turns into a cash cow for operators?
In the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web Report Opera show that Opera Mini generates nearly $1.25 billion per year for mobile operators in just the top 10 countries for Opera Mini. With the United States leading the way with Opera Mini generating more than $146 per user per year. Big numbers at last!…
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Opera Mini on Windows Mobile
Opera Software has launched a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6-based handsets.
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Opera Mini comes to iPhone
Opera is to show off a version of Opera Mini for iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile at MWC 2010