Recent News, 2006

Expanding mobile Web offering: T-Mobile chooses Opera Mini to power web’n’walk on high-volume feature phones

Oslo, Norway – March 8, 2006 T-Mobile has chosen Opera Miniâ„¢ to power their web’n’walk offering on high-volume feature phones in Europe. A branded and customizedOpera Miniâ„¢ version with T-Mobile’s look and feel will be pre-installed onfour mobile phones, with several more handsets under development.T-Mobile is the first operator to pre-install customized Opera Minibrowsers on […]

Opera and Orca Interactive partner to enhance solutions for the IPTV market.

Oslo, Norway – March 7, 2006   Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technology, today announced its partnership with Orca Interactive, a world-leading developer of middleware and applications for IPTV. Orca Interactive will now support Opera 8.5 for Devices with its RiGHTv(â„¢) open middleware platform for delivering and managing interactive TV services. Operators […]

Opera Masti: Opera Plans India Office. Browser Innovator Continues Asian Expansion.

Oslo, Norway – February 20, 2006   Opera Software today announced its intention to open a development office in India. The planned office, to be located in Chandigarh, will initially employ quality assurance testers supporting Opera’s full range of product offerings and Opera’s ‘Open the Web’ evangelists. Current job openings are available at http://www.opera.com/jobs/.   […]

Giving gamers two windows to the Web: The Opera Browser for Nintendo DSâ„¢

Oslo, Norway – February 15, 2006   In Opera’s agreement with Nintendo, Nintendo DS users will now be able to surf the full Internet from their systems using the Opera browser. The Opera browser for Nintendo DS will be sold as a DS card. Users simply insert the card into the Wi-Fi enabled Nintendo DS, […]

Opera, FAST and Telenor Collaborate on Mobile Services R&D: R&D Preview of Mobile Solution Will be Demonstrated at the 3GSM World Congress i…

Oslo, Norway and Barcelona, Spain – 14 February 2006   Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), Telenor R&D and Opera Software ASA are collaborating to bring best-in-breed technology and end-user expertise to mobile portals. The three companies are developing a complete system for delivering relevant location-based information, including localized content, news feeds, maps and traveling […]

Widgets on your mobile phone: Opera Software and Freedom Media announce world’s first mobile AJAX application using Opera Platformâ„¢

Oslo, Norway and Barcelona, Spain – 14 February 2006   Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technologies, and Freedom Media, an independent, consumer-oriented information- and service provider, today announced the world’s first mobile widget application based on Opera Software’s mobile AJAX authoring environment, Opera Platformâ„¢. Named “Freedom”, the application offers a collection of […]

Mini everywhere: Opera Software teams with MediaPlazza to distribute Opera Mini globally

Oslo, Norway and Paris, France – February 13, 2006   Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technologies, and MediaPlazza, a leading worldwide distributor of mobile content, today announced a partnership to promote and distribute Opera’s new mobile browser, Opera Mini. MediaPlazza will offer Opera Mini as a premium SMS download from more than […]

Opera and Amino jointly announce extended partnership in the IPTV market

Oslo, Norway – February 7, 2006   Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technologies, today announced its extended partnership with Amino, leading IPTV software and customer premises equipment provider. Amino now offers the Opera Browser as an option for shipments of its AmiNET110 set-top boxes, and will also work with Opera to integrate […]

Safe, speedy surfing: Opera Mobile is the default browser on Sony Ericsson’s M600 3G phone

Oslo, Norway – February 7, 2006   Opera Software today announced that Sony Ericsson’s new 3G smartphone, the M600, will ship with Opera Mobile as its default browser. Based on the Opera-enhanced UIQ 3.x platform, the M600 is an advanced e-mailing and Web browsing phone that takes full advantage of Opera’s speed and unique rendering […]

Opera integrates BitTorrent in upcoming browser

Oslo, Norway – February 6, 2006   Opera Software today announced that it has teamed with BitTorrent Inc. to include the BitTorrentâ„¢protocol in the upcoming version of the Opera Web browser. Integrating this popular technologyin the Opera browser means faster and more efficient downloads of large files. Opera and BitTorrent have signed an agreement covering […]