SmoothWall is first vendor to offer content-based blocking of Flash-based games
In recent years, flash-based online games have become extremely popular. According to Comscore, online game sites pull in over a quarter (28%) of the total worldwide Internet population with the average online gamer visiting gaming sites nine times in every month.
Organizations need to block online [...]

Opera Mini crosses 35 million users, processes 2 petabytes of data per month according to newest State of the Mobile Web report
No need to fear the monthly mobile bill anymore: consumers in the top ten countries save approximately 8.1 billion USD per year using Opera Mini, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report [...]

On October 27 and 28, 2009, Opera Software will gather with the greatest minds in the mobile industry at the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE) in London. Opera will exhibit its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile Web browsers running on an array of devices at booth 82. Contributing to the event’s goal of sharing, creating, [...]

Almost three million people switch on Opera Turbo in one month
Over the first month following the release of Opera 10 on September 1, 2009, approximately three million unique users escalated their surfing speeds with Opera Turbo. Those three million consumers viewed almost 668 million compressed Web pages. This high usage rate of one particular browser [...]

Opera Software will soon be integrating the Tjat mobile-messaging widget on Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile and Series 60 phones. This award-winning, instant-message (IM) portal, pronounced “chat”, aggregates popular IM services from all over the world into one convenient widget. In addition, the Tjat Widget enables access to POP3 e-mail clients, such as Gmail or [...]

Opera Software today announced that it has joined the cross-industry consortium that is leading the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative. The purpose of HbbTV is to harmonize the broadcast and broadband delivery of news, information and entertainment to the end consumer through set-top boxes and connected TVs. Opera’s active support of this initiative will [...]

Opera Software today released the beta version of Opera Unite, available in Opera 10.10 beta. Opera Unite is a novel technology platform that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other [...]

New quick messaging and touch screen phones from Pantech and Samsung to arrive in time for the holidays
AT&T* today announced four new mobile phones, two each from Pantech and Samsung that feature full Web browsers as well as physical and virtual keyboards. The Pantech Reveal™ and Impact™ will join the Samsung Mythic™ and Flight™ at [...]

Opera’s secret weapon greatly improves your personal productivity
To aid your quest for optimal efficiency on the Web, Opera 10, Opera’s newest Web browser, includes an industry leading e-mail client, Opera Mail. By combining both functions into one product, Opera Mail users benefit from existing Opera browser features such as session restore, which saves your messages [...]

Global mobile-browser champion enters next generation
Opera Software today released Opera Mini 5 beta, the newest update to the world’s most popular Web browser for mobile phones. Opera Mini has mobilized the Web by making it easy to use and available for people everywhere.
In this fifth-generation version, Opera Mini is staying true to the company’s promise [...]