As expected, Opera has put up its new Opera Mobile 9.7 beta1 for Windows phone on its site. Other than the new Opera Turbo and Opera Presto 2.2, there is also a Widgets manager for add/remove widgets, the default installation will include GeoQuiz, Twitter, Bubbles, MyStatus and Google Translate.     continued »

Announced in March this year, Opera is set to release its first Opera Mobile 9.7 beta today according to a press release link on its website. The url is actually linked to a blank document at the moment, it looks like the company has put it up accidentally. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, the company new compression technology, along with ... continued »

Opera today announces that its Opera Mini usage continue to increase every month, with an estimated of more than 23 million people using Opera Mini, a 12.1% increase from February 2009 and more than 157% increase from March 2008. Those users viewed more than 8.6 billion pages in March 2009. A surge of Opera Mini usage in Nigeria pushed that ... continued »

Opera Software announced today its agreement with Virgin Mobile USA to distribute Opera Mini on several Virgin Mobile USA handsets. Opera Mini will be available as a free application download on select devices for Virgin Mobile USA prepaid customers via the VirginXL download storefront. Starting April 14, 2009, this service will be available on eight Virgin Mobile USA handsets including ... continued »

To be announced next week at CTIA Wireless 2009, here are a few screenshots of the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.7.  The new version will feature Opera Turbo along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing sites like Facebook and YouTube).   ... continued »

Opera Software and Skyhook Wireless today announced their partnership to bring geolocation to the Web. The companies are bringing the ability of sharing your location with any website. With the new W3C Geolocation Application Programming Interface (API), Opera will make Skyhook Wireless’ groundbreaking location platform available to any Web developer with just a few lines of JavaScript. For example, a ... continued »

At next week’s CTIA Wireless Show, Opera Software will be announcing the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, the company new compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and ... continued »

Opera Software and Yahoo! today announced their partnership to distribute Opera Mini via Yahoo! Mobile and also as a standalone download from Yahoo!'s mobile Web sites in the near future. "As the most popular mobile browser on the planet, Opera Mini will also be available to users of Yahoo! Mobile. Yahoo! Mobile with Opera Mini is easily accessible to end-users, operators ... continued »

Vodafone has signed an agreement with Opera Software to develop a custom-made version of the mobile browser Opera Mini. Opera Mini will be available in Vodafone markets across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Vodafone customers will benefit from the ability to enjoy the full web-browsing functionality on Java mobile phones as well as an icon-based display that is easy ... continued »

Promised to reduced the data size by up to 80 percents, Opera unveils Opera Turbo for its users on Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK. Opera Turbo compresses bandwidth consumption by processing data being sent to a mobile phone or a PC. Opera Turbo offers full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash. continued »