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What's new in the Opera 11.60 browser

Posted December 7, 2011 - 6:42 am

Web browsers are in the news: Google's Chrome is poised to overtake Firefox as the number-two browser as Firefox struggles with market share and revenue. IE9 is increasing its market share, but mostly at the cost of other versions of IE. On Tuesday, Opera announced a new release. Does Opera have good news, and more importantly, a reason for your business to consider using it?
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Opera follows rivals with minimalist 'Featherweight' UI

Posted June 27, 2011 - 3:11 pm

Opera Software will debut a new, streamlined user interface in Opera 11.5, a company executive said today, that closely resembles the minimalist design now sported by most of its competitors.
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Attack of the mobile browsers

Posted June 22, 2011 - 5:13 am

Firefox, Opera, and a horde of mobile upstarts give iPhone, iPad, and Android users plenty of alternatives
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10 cool new apps for Android Honeycomb tablets

Posted May 18, 2011 - 7:00 am

These 10 fresh apps show off the power and versatility of the Android Honeycomb tablet platform.
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13 features that make each Web browser unique

Posted May 2, 2011 - 5:08 am

Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE -- innovative features set each browser apart
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Browser wars, 2011

Posted April 25, 2011 - 4:22 pm

Which browser is best for security, speed, and compliance with web standards? To find out, we ran the new versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari through a battery of benchmark tests. Here's how they stack up.
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Opera boosts standard widgets for Android

Posted December 22, 2010 - 9:02 pm

The company is introducing a widget runtime platform based on Wholesale Applications Community spec.
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Internet Explorer is tops at resisting social malware, social life

Posted December 16, 2010 - 6:02 pm

A new test of how well browsers resist socially engineered malware shows IE far ahead of the rest of the crowd, possibly because of users' difficulty making social connections of any sort.
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Opera rolls out Opera 11 beta with 'tab stacks,' more

Posted November 24, 2010 - 9:23 am

Opera teased a major new version of its desktop browser last month, and now the first Opera 11 beta is here to offer an early taste of its--count 'em--11 new features.
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Bugs & Fixes: Security Fixes for All Major Browsers

Posted April 28, 2010 - 7:37 pm

Whatever you use to surf the Web needs a fix. Developers of all five major browsers--Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera--recently released important security patches.
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Opera Mini tops 1M downloads to iPhone

Posted April 16, 2010 - 3:05 pm

More then a million copies of Opera Software's new iPhone browser were downloaded in the first 24 hours of Opera Mini's availability, a company executive said Thursday.
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Opera Mini browser approved for the iPhone App Store

Posted April 12, 2010 - 8:01 pm

Apple surprises everyone but Opera Software by approving the Opera Mini web browser for the Apple App Store.
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Opera confirms critical browser bug

Posted March 9, 2010 - 9:10 am

Opera Software yesterday confirmed a critical vulnerability in its Windows desktop browser, and said it is working on a patch.
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Opera downloads triple after browser ballot screen debut

Posted March 3, 2010 - 9:12 pm

Opera Software today said that it has seen a three-fold increase in downloads of its browser since Microsoft started pushing a ballot screen to European who run Windows.
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Opera 10.50 browser features boosted speed and improved HTML 5 support

Posted March 3, 2010 - 8:58 pm

The company claims its newest browser version is the fastest ever for Windows computers.
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Another day, another Internet Explorer security hole

Posted March 1, 2010 - 3:48 pm

It seems like every other week there's a new Internet Explorer security hole. Here's the story on the latest.
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Opera 10.5 grabs browser speed crown

Posted February 15, 2010 - 9:41 am

Opera Software's beta of Opera 10.5 leapfrogged every rival to become the world's fastest browser, benchmark tests show.
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Who cares if IE is patched soon?

Posted January 19, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Microsoft promises that IE will be patched again soon. So what? It will just break again.
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Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

Posted October 18, 2009 - 8:05 pm

The good news for users is that every one of the five most popular web browsers is exceedingly feature-rich, increasingly fast and easier than ever to use. The bad news is that it's become very hard to decide which to use. Here's how they stack up.
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Opera delivers Unite beta, touts in-browser P2P

Posted October 14, 2009 - 1:23 pm

Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it believes will reinvent the Web.
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Opera Mini 5 for BlackBerry: Killer Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted September 17, 2009 - 3:22 pm

Opera Software upps the ante on BlackBerry browsing with the beta release of its latest mobile browser: Opera Mini 5.
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Even Microsoft wants you to get rid of IE 6

Posted September 2, 2009 - 9:30 am

Want to make your Windows PC a wee bit safer? Drop Internet Explorer 6.
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Opera CEO defends Unite against security concerns

Posted July 6, 2009 - 12:51 pm

Opera Software's CEO defended the Unite feature of the forthcoming Opera 10 browser against charges that it will increase the risk that hackers can break into people's PCs, saying it is more difficult to hack into Web servers on 'millions of computers' than into a centralized server.
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Could Opera Unite be a botmaster's best friend?

Posted June 21, 2009 - 6:48 pm

Cyber criminals are always looking to hack Web servers, and Opera puts one on every PC.
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First look: Opera Unite alpha lets you share files -- but is it safe?

Posted June 18, 2009 - 9:16 am

Opera Software's announcement that it's going to bundle Unite, an easy-to-use Web server with content-sharing applets, with the Opera 10 Web browser sounds great -- at first. Upon closer inspection, though, there could be some real security headaches.
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