Recent News, 2013

100 devices and counting

Nine more handset manufacturers from South Asia to preinstall Opera Mini on their Android devices In a region where an increasing number of mobile users are getting their first—or only—web experience from mobile handsets, the mobile web browser has become the most essential app. Today, Opera Software announces 7 new partnerships in India with Micromax, […]

The North Face gears up for the Opera TV Store

Opera Software today announced that The North Face® has launched its first TV app, enriching the video and adventure offering of the Opera TV Store, Opera’s HTML 5 application platform for Smart TV devices. Using Opera TV Snap, a next-generation TV app technology with the ability to transform online video into apps for connected TV, […]

Amino launches Amino TV App Store for the Live Home Media Centre at IBC 2013

New app offering for pay-TV operators powered by Opera Amino Communications, leaders in IPTV, is to partner with web company Opera Software in the delivery of the new Amino TV App Store for its Live Home Media Centre – powered by Opera Software’s Opera TV Store application platform, and providing hundreds of free apps in […]

AirTies selects Opera SDK to bring OTT to STBs

Opera and AirTies extend cooperation Opera Software today announced that it has renewed its partnership with AirTies, a Turkish developer of wireless and OTT streaming devices for pay-TV operators, targeting the UK, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Nordics. The agreement makes the Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) available to the entire AirTies set-top box […]

Opera takes the stage at IBC

New SDK and new solutions for pay-TV operators on show The curtain is rising on the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), where Opera Software will showcase its next-generation Software Development Kit (SDK) and Opera TV Store solutions for operators and brands. Opera will debut at IBC the brand new Opera Devices SDK 4.0 based on the […]

Opera TV Snap triggers 100 Smart TV apps in record time

Big-name Dailymotion users in Opera TV Store milestone Opera TV Snap, a breakthrough Smart TV app-creation tool launched in July, has caused a boom in the number of Smart TV apps. In the two months since the launch of the new Opera Software technology with Dailymotion as its first partner, over 100 TV apps have […]

No. 1 from Coast to Coast

Launched Monday this week, Coast by Opera, the browser that every iPad needs, has been welcomed with open arms in all major iPad markets. Coast has been on the top of the lists in Germany, Norway, Poland and a whole bunch of other countries – as well as number five in the U.S. App Store […]

Opera jet-sets onto Changhong Smart TVs

Opera Software has today announced that the full suite of Opera TV products has a new destination, landing in the latest line of Smart TVs from consumer electronics company Changhong. Changhong, one of the largest manufacturers of televisions in China, will integrate the Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) to power the complete package of […]

Coast by Opera – iPad gets the browser it deserves

When faced with something that’s not a computer, nor a mobile phone, what must a web browser company do to innovate? It forgets everything, and starts over. The web has evolved exponentially from drab, grey webpages with blue, linked text to vivid, elegant pages with complex graphics, videos and other interactive information. Yet, so far, […]

Opera TV Store lands on Hisense Smart TVs

Hisense and Opera extend partnership bringing the world of apps to TV viewers Opera Software and Hisense, the world’s leading LED TV provider, have announced that the Opera TV Store has now launched on selected models of Hisense Smart TVs, extending the partnership between Opera and Hisense and bringing exciting new apps to TV viewers. […]