Recent News, 2011

New data plan got you down?

Opera offers ways to manage that data cap Oslo, Norway – July 27, 2011 It’s closing time at the all-you-can-eat mobile data buffet. More operators globally are moving away from unlimited data plans and moving towards tiered pricing with hard ceilings on the data available for you to use. These data caps leave consumers to […]

Opera Software partners with UTV Indiagames

Oslo, Norway and Mumbai, India – July 25, 2011 Opera Software today announced its association with UTV Indiagames, an integrated game developer-publisher across mobile, online and the Interactive Television, to offer gaming content on Opera Mini Speed Dial. Opera Mini users in India can enjoy the most sought-after games as well as other products from […]

Opera and Vodafone extends global frame agreement

Oslo, Norway – 19 July, 2011 Opera Software announced today that they have signed a three-year extension of their global frame agreement with Vodafone. The existing global frame agreement gives Vodafone the chance to offer its customers Opera products such as a Vodafone-branded Opera Mini browser, a product that is at the core of Vodafone’s […]

Opera Mobile rocks the MOTOKEY XT in Brazil

Oslo, Norway, and Sao Paolo, Brazil – July 14, 2011 Opera Software has done it again! Going where no other mobile browser has gone before, the Opera Mobile browser will now be available preloaded on the newest Motorola device to hit the Brazilian market. Through a partnership with Motorola Mobility, the Opera Mobile browser will […]

Opera raises the bar for mobile advertising

San Mateo, CA – 13 July 2011 Opera Software announced today that their Open Mobile Ad Exchange is now live with two new features that will allow customers to better understand their users and also give publishers and advertisers the ability to participate in a real-time auction for ad impressions. Whether you are a carrier […]

Break on through to the mobile side

NK and Opera give the real mobile browsing touch to fill the beaches with people this summer Wroclaw, Poland – 12 July 2011 If you have never tried mobile browsing, this summer you won”t be able to resist. NK, the top social network in Poland, and Opera Software will show you how simple it is. […]

Opera: You complete me

Auto-complete and auto-suggest introduced in newest Opera Mini and Opera Mobile Oslo, Norway – June 30, 2011 We feel you! Typing on mobile devices can be a pain. Just like our users, we at Opera Software would like to do as little typing on small screens as possible. As we are no fans of everyday […]

Custom browsing for Brazil’s Globo.com customers with Opera

June 29, 2011 – Oslo, Norway Opera Software today announced that it is teaming with leading Brazilian site, Globo.com through its technology portal TechTudo, to offer a customized desktop browser for Globo users and to offer Globo.com and TechTudo content to users of the Opera desktop browser and the Opera Mini mobile browser in Brazil. […]

State of the Mobile web, India review

Oslo, Norway – 29 June, 2011 In this State of the Mobile Web report we take a closer look at the booming mobile web traffic in India and how the Indian people choose to participate on the Web. We see Indians actively using the social possibilities of the Web, Facebook being one of the climbers, […]

Is Opera 11.50 bigger than the Death Star?

Oslo, Norway – June 28, 2011 Almost 1.2 million stormtroopers, droids and janitors can fit into a fully operational Death Star. Nearly 11 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Now, Opera aims to put those numbers to shame with the number of downloads for its newest browser.   The world can follow our milestones […]