Version 9.7 will offer faster download speeds and improved performance thanks to Opera's compression technology.
Opera Software showed off the latest version of its mobile browser, and the company said it will be able to offer users a high-quality, rich Internet experience regardless of network connectivity.
Opera Mobile 9.7 will take advantage of the company's server-side compression technology to offer mobile users quick Internet access while supporting Web technologies like Flash and Ajax. The compression technology, dubbed Opera Turbo, can compress data by up to 80% to improve download rates and overall performance.
"Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo gives our business customers the ability to bring a rich Internet browsing experience to their mobile device and to the end user without having to allocate new resources and development costs," said Rod Hamlin, senior VP for Opera, in a statement.
The browser maker said Opera Mobile 9.7 will have better standards, will be capable of hardware acceleration, and will be compatible with Google Gears. The browser will come preloaded on some high-end smartphones but can also be purchased directly from Opera. It will be officially released during the CTIA Wireless Show next week.
As more cell phone users browse the Web on the go, Opera is seeing increased competition. The company already has to compete with on-deck browsers like Apple's mobile Safari andMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Internet Explorer Mobile, but it's also seeing a crop of newcomers in the mobile browser space.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Opera Shows Off Updated Mobile Browser
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Microsoft opens door to open-source software community
Microsoft is increasing the openness of its software to appease antitrust regulators and please businesses trending toward more diverse computer systems.
Microsoft said Thursday it is making "broad-reaching changes" to its technology and business practices to enhance the ease with which its software interacts with partners, customers and competitors.
"These steps represent an important step and significant change in how we share information about our products and technologies," said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
"Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies."
The US software giant has been gradually shedding its historically protective mindset regarding intellectual property as Microsoft veterans retire and new blood is hired, according to Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle.
"There has been an incremental shift in Microsoft's internal thinking that was given a significant jolt by the European Union," Enderle told AFP.
"The underpinnings for the decision are continued frustration with trying to find ways to keep the EU happy and more pressure from customers."
Microsoft's newly announced principles apply to all its top-selling software and fit a patent framework addressed by European courts, said Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith.
"Microsoft is taking all necessary steps to make sure we are in full compliance with European law," Smith said in a conference call.
"The interoperability announcement represents the changed legal landscape for Microsoft and the technology industry."
EU competition regulators responded with a skeptical statement that "takes note" of Microsoft's "intention" to improve the compatibility of its software with rival products, but still voiced antitrust concerns.
"This announcement does not relate to the question of whether or not Microsoft has been complying with EU antitrust rules in this area in the past," the European Commission said.
The commission has long accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant market power by making software that is incompatible with products made by its rivals.
EU regulators slapped a fine of nearly 500 million euros (741 million dollars) on Microsoft in 2004 for abusing its dominant market power.
A new European Commissions investigation targets the interoperability of a broad range of software, including Microsoft's popular Office package, with rival products.
Microsoft posted more than 30,000 pages of previously safeguarded software protocol information online for anyone to view.
"Today's step is certainly qualitatively and quantitatively different from any step that we as a company have taken in the past," he said.
"We realize it is committing the company not just to mere words, but to actions that will live up to these principles completely."
Microsoft said it would post thousands of additional pages of software protocols on its website in coming weeks.
The protocols, previously only available for fees, show software engineers how to enable applications to communicate and exchange data with popular Microsoft programs such as Outlook and Office.
A test of Microsoft's move will be whether developers can mine useful nuggets from the mountain of information, said analyst Michael Cherry of private firm Directions on Microsoft.
"If we really wanted to sit down today and do something, how long would it take us? And if we have problems, who do we ask?" Cherry said.
Microsoft's senior vice president of server and tools business, Bob Muglia, told AFP to expect the firm's software to be increasingly molded to work with other companies' products.
"These announcements are like McDonald's releasing the recipe for its secret sauce," said AR Communications strategic consultant Carmi Levy.
"This announcement signals that Microsoft is finally ready to commit to an entirely new business model. This is a radical shift from Microsoft's traditional bull-in-a-china-shop strategy."
Microsoft said its new principles include ensuring open connections, promoting data portability, and fostering closer ties with the open-source community.
Open-source applications consist of software considered public property and freely available for people to use and modify.
People will be able to freely customize programs to work with Microsoft software, but if they sell applications for others to use, Microsoft will extract fees, according to Ballmer.
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Microsoft said Thursday it is making "broad-reaching changes" to its technology and business practices to enhance the ease with which its software interacts with partners, customers and competitors.
"These steps represent an important step and significant change in how we share information about our products and technologies," said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
"Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies."
The US software giant has been gradually shedding its historically protective mindset regarding intellectual property as Microsoft veterans retire and new blood is hired, according to Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle.
"There has been an incremental shift in Microsoft's internal thinking that was given a significant jolt by the European Union," Enderle told AFP.
"The underpinnings for the decision are continued frustration with trying to find ways to keep the EU happy and more pressure from customers."
Microsoft's newly announced principles apply to all its top-selling software and fit a patent framework addressed by European courts, said Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith.
"Microsoft is taking all necessary steps to make sure we are in full compliance with European law," Smith said in a conference call.
"The interoperability announcement represents the changed legal landscape for Microsoft and the technology industry."
EU competition regulators responded with a skeptical statement that "takes note" of Microsoft's "intention" to improve the compatibility of its software with rival products, but still voiced antitrust concerns.
"This announcement does not relate to the question of whether or not Microsoft has been complying with EU antitrust rules in this area in the past," the European Commission said.
The commission has long accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant market power by making software that is incompatible with products made by its rivals.
EU regulators slapped a fine of nearly 500 million euros (741 million dollars) on Microsoft in 2004 for abusing its dominant market power.
A new European Commissions investigation targets the interoperability of a broad range of software, including Microsoft's popular Office package, with rival products.
Microsoft posted more than 30,000 pages of previously safeguarded software protocol information online for anyone to view.
"Today's step is certainly qualitatively and quantitatively different from any step that we as a company have taken in the past," he said.
"We realize it is committing the company not just to mere words, but to actions that will live up to these principles completely."
Microsoft said it would post thousands of additional pages of software protocols on its website in coming weeks.
The protocols, previously only available for fees, show software engineers how to enable applications to communicate and exchange data with popular Microsoft programs such as Outlook and Office.
A test of Microsoft's move will be whether developers can mine useful nuggets from the mountain of information, said analyst Michael Cherry of private firm Directions on Microsoft.
"If we really wanted to sit down today and do something, how long would it take us? And if we have problems, who do we ask?" Cherry said.
Microsoft's senior vice president of server and tools business, Bob Muglia, told AFP to expect the firm's software to be increasingly molded to work with other companies' products.
"These announcements are like McDonald's releasing the recipe for its secret sauce," said AR Communications strategic consultant Carmi Levy.
"This announcement signals that Microsoft is finally ready to commit to an entirely new business model. This is a radical shift from Microsoft's traditional bull-in-a-china-shop strategy."
Microsoft said its new principles include ensuring open connections, promoting data portability, and fostering closer ties with the open-source community.
Open-source applications consist of software considered public property and freely available for people to use and modify.
People will be able to freely customize programs to work with Microsoft software, but if they sell applications for others to use, Microsoft will extract fees, according to Ballmer.
Source : http://afp.google.com/
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
How much open source software are businesses really using?
Open source vendor OpenLogic is today kicking off a new industry initiative meant to help both users and software companies find out precisely what kinds of open source software is being used -- and who is using it.
Software developers are downloading lots of open source software from the Internet, and much of that is free of charge -- but what, exactly, are they downloading? OpenLogic, Inc. is today rolling out a new industry initiative called the Open Source Census which is aimed at answering that question for developers, their employers, and software vendors.
Despite efforts to clear up the confusion, many enterprises and other businesses today aren't at all clear about which open source software packages are actually installed on their systems, said Kim Weins, OpenLogic's senior vice president, Products and Marketing, in an interview with BetaNews.
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Software developers are downloading lots of open source software from the Internet, and much of that is free of charge -- but what, exactly, are they downloading? OpenLogic, Inc. is today rolling out a new industry initiative called the Open Source Census which is aimed at answering that question for developers, their employers, and software vendors.
Despite efforts to clear up the confusion, many enterprises and other businesses today aren't at all clear about which open source software packages are actually installed on their systems, said Kim Weins, OpenLogic's senior vice president, Products and Marketing, in an interview with BetaNews.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Best of open source in software development
The wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono?
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