Archive for May 20th, 2009
Opera announces the new Opera Mobile 9.7 at CTIA Wireless 2009 – a server-accelerated full Web experience for smartphones and mobile devices
Check out Opera’s network-friendly solutions for carriers and mobile device manufacturers at Booth #6724 in Central Hall
Mountain View, California and Las Vegas, Nevada – March 26, 2009
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, Opera’s breakthrough 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 Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube).
In today’s tough business climate where customer expectations are ever-increasing, Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo can help carriers reduce network congestion while helping mobile device manufacturers bring increased speed and a more rich Web browsing experience to their customer and users.
For carriers specifically, Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo provides a more consistent and compelling full Internet experience by compressing data up to 80%, thus reducing unwanted traffic and congestion and allowing users to access the Web regardless of network limitations.
For mobile device manufacturers, Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo can make for a faster, more rich browsing experience by leveraging current device capabilities and utilizing hardware resources more effectively. Opera Turbo offloads Web page rendering to Opera servers freeing up device resources. Even devices with limited hardware capabilities show improved page download rates and better overall performance.
“Today, carriers and mobile device manufacturers alike are looking for solutions that take advantage of existing technologies and investments while trying to maintain a high level of service for their customers,” explains Rod Hamlin, Senior Vice President for the Americas for Opera Software. “Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo gives our business customers to 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.”
Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo also features better standards support (100% Acid 3 test) and developer tools, hardware acceleration Open GL ES, and support for Google Gears.
To learn more, check out the Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo demo video.
In addition to Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo, Opera will be showcasing Opera Turbo on other connected devices as well as the latest version of the award-winning Opera Mini 4.2 on today’s hottest mobile devices – Sprint Instinct, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm, and T-Mobile G1.
Finally, stay tuned for Opera’s latest partner announcements, and make sure to check out Opera executives at the following panels and presentations:
BRIC Conference – “The Important Role of the Mobile Internet for Developing Countries”
- Opera Presenter: Jon von Tetzchner, Founder & CEO
- When: Tuesday, March 31st @ 3:10pm
- Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, Room N255
CTIA Wireless – “Applications & Operating Systems for Devices”
- Opera Presenter: Jon von Tetzchner, Founder & CEO
- When: Thursday, April 2nd @ 3:30pm
- Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Room 223
CTIA Wireless – “Mobile Internet – Access to Internet is Not a Desk Job Anymore”
- Opera Presenter: Rod Hamlin, Senior Vice President, Americas
- When: Thursday, April 2nd @ 4:00pm
- Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Room 228
CTIA Wireless will be held from April 1st – 3rd in Las Vegas, NV. Visit Opera at Booth #6724 in Central Hall. For media inquiries, please contact Ted Miller at tmiller@opera.com tmiller[at]opera.com.
About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera’s cross-platform Web browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com/.
Windows 7 is early Q4
Posted by The Right Guy in Software, Windows 7 on May 20th, 2009
Or late September
We’ve heard that the DirectX 11 capable, Microsoft-butt-saving Windows 7 operating system should be coming latest in Q4 2009. Some customers that depend on it have told us that they expect it either in September or October time.
Windows 7 brings high hopes, as everyone sees it as the next milestone and much better than Vista, but honestly we still don’t understand why so many people are against Vista as this operating system runs just fine, as long as you have enough memory.
Since RAM and storage memory are dirt cheap these days, we don’t think that people should worry that much. Just like the original Phenom K10 65nm, Vista was branded as broken from the day one, and this is tough to change.
This will be the first operating system in the history that will have lesser resource requirements than the previous version, but this is exactly what users have demanded, and since Microsoft is in the business of making the money, they won’t argue and they will give its customers what they want.
We still don’t know the fix date but out sources believe you can see the official Windows 7 either in late September or early October.
Facebook purges ‘fake names’
Posted by The Right Guy in Internet, Social Network on May 20th, 2009
Istanbul, not Constantinople
Facebook is purging its site of people it thinks have made up names. However the outfit is finding that people really do have daft names and it is killing off real customers whose only sin has been parents who had a similar problem.
The press has focused on the case of Alicia Istanbul who was locked out from her 330 friends, including many she had no other way of contacting, but also from the pages she had set up for the jewelry design business she runs from her Atlanta-area home. Instabul said that Facebook should have asked before it switched her off. Istanbul, whose father is from the city of Istanbul in Turkey, said it took three weeks to get her account reinstated. Ironically if she was called Constantinople or Byzantine, which was what the city used to be called she would have got away with it.
While some names, like Batman, you would think would be obvious. But we went to school with a bloke called Batman, along with a guy called Badcock and another called Love. Apparently now that Susan Boyle has become an overnight singing sensation it is hard to register that name too, although we went to Journalism school with a Susan Boyle.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt acknowledged that Facebook does make mistakes on occasion, and he apologized for “any inconvenience” which is what PR people say to fill the space in a sentence between the word stuff up and a full stop. Once the site disables an account it deems fake, its holder has to contact Facebook to prove it is real. In some cases, the company may require that the person fax a copy of a government-issued ID, which Facebook says it destroys as soon as the account is verified.
However a large number have got through the net. There are 20 “I.P. Freely” accounts and 13 “Seymour Butts.”