Tagged: Opera & News
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The technology business week: Apple is poster child for post-PC revolution, Twitter strikes deal with American Express News
18.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Opera boosts video capabilities via €155m Skyfire acquisition News
15.02.2013 Norwegian software player Opera has acquired Skyfire Labs, a firm specialising in mobile video optimisation, in a deal estimated to be worth up to €155m. -
Opera hits 300m users, switches to WebKit and Chromium News
13.02.2013 Opera Software has reached a milestone 300m monthly users across all its browser products and has also announced it will no longer be developing its own rendering engine, but... -
Super friends Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft team up on definitive web resource (video) News
09.10.2012 While they may have their competitive differences, the world’s leading technology companies have a common problem when it comes to web development, which is why they’ve joined...Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Web development, Developers, Google, Apple, Adobe, HP, Mozilla, Facebook, Nokia, Opera, Microsoft, -
Cyber-criminals take on mobile phone users with London 2012 Olympics scams – report News
08.08.2012 A report from GFI Software out today suggests that cyber-criminals are starting to target mobile phone users, with the company’s security researchers having identified a number...Categories: Search, Phones, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Apps, Application Design and Development -
A four-year history of internet browser usage in two minutes (video) News
09.07.2012 StatCounter has created a video that illustrates the changing trends in internet browser use worldwide over the past four years.Tags: Firefox, Opera, StatCounter, Chrome, internet explorer, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Internet, Browsers -
Leap second bug wreaks havoc for major websites built on Java News
02.07.2012 Popular websites such as Reddit and software platforms such as Mozilla have been disrupted by the addition of an extra second to the world’s atomic clocks. In particular,...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Internet, Global CIO, Digital Media, CIO -
Mozilla launches better, stronger, faster Firefox for Android News
26.06.2012 Having teased us with the prospect of a big announcement this week, Mozilla’s big reveal is an upgrade to Firefox for Android on the eve of Google’s I/O developer conference. -
Facebook replaces Chrome with Opera as suggested browser News
01.06.2012 Could this be confirmation of Facebook’s plans to buy the Norwegian software firm? -
Chrome passes Internet Explorer by as world’s most used browser News
21.05.2012 New figures from StatCounter reveal that Google’s Chrome web browser is now the world’s most used browser, bypassing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. -
Zerg Rush gobbles up your Google search News
27.04.2012 An interesting new Easter Egg has surfaced in Google searches that turns your search into a video game. And this time it doesn’t appear to have originated with Google, but seems...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Neutrino particles break the cosmic speed limit News
23.09.2011 An international team of scientists has today announced the results of an experiment that has recorded neutrino particles travelling faster than the speed of light. -
RTÉ brings out HTML5 version of mobile site News
22.09.2011 Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ has redesigned its mobile site m.rte.ie and has it optimised for the new generation of smartphones by designing it in HTML5.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Feature phone apps market to almost double to $1bn News
09.09.2011 The mobile apps market for feature phones will almost double by 2016, hitting revenues of $1 billion, after being spurred on by the success of apps in the smartphone sector,...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Mobile, Mobility, Phones, Software & Web Development, Wireless Communications -
Test claiming Internet Explorer users have low IQ was a hoax News
03.08.2011 A ‘study’ which claimed Internet Explorer users had a lower IQ than other browser users was a hoax. -
IE9 pips Chrome, Firefox and Safari in blocking attacks News
18.07.2011 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 and 9 in-house reputation system beat rival browsers, such as Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox, in an independent test to... -
Opera flaw highlights vulnerability of browsers News
25.01.2011 Reports that the Opera web browser has been hit by a zero-day vulnerability highlights the fact that all web browser clients are, by their nature, insecure, says Idappcom, the... -
Firefox takes the browser crown from IE News
04.01.2011 Firefox has overtaken Internet Explorer (IE) in the browser wars to become the No 1 browser in Europe, according to StatCounter. IE remains the favourite in Ireland, however.Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Search Engines, Internet, Hosting Services, Digital 21, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta has arrived on Android News
09.11.2010 Opera Software has made an Opera Mobile 10.1 beta available on the Android market, claiming to have faster page loading, fluid scrolling and geolocation support. -
Opera coming to Android, will introduce extensions News
14.10.2010 Web browser Opera will release its mobile version on Google’s Android Marketplace within a month. They also announced that Opera 11 for desktops will include Firefox-life...