Opera Web-Enables 700Mil. Cell Phones
Oslo, Norway-based Opera Software ASA today announced a new version of its Internet browser that allows Web surfing from almost any mobile phone, even those with minimal built-in memory.
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Accessing the Internet has largely been restricted to higher-end mobile phones with the memory capacity to run a browser. However, the company said its new Opera Mini browser enables Web surfing on more than 700 million low-to-medium-cost phones without space for a traditional browser as long as the phones are Java-capable.
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Opera said the system only requires the phone to have a small Java program because, “instead of the phone itself processing a Web-page, a remote server preprocesses the page before sending it to the phone.”�Opera Mini is designed to be as easily implemented as installing a ring tone; users simply send an SMS or visit a link through their WAP browser to receive it, and they are instantly online.
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Notes Opera co-founder and Chief Executive Jon S. von Tetzchner: “With Opera Mini you don't have to have an advanced phone to surf the Web, which means that most people can use it with their existing phones.”
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Opera Mini is currently a pilot project, with the software offered first in
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TV-2 bundled Opera Mini into its Norwegian mobile phone services to offer viewers a complete content package that includes the browser, the statement said.
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This could become popular. Opera’s shares rose more than 6.4 percent to the equivalent of $2.36 (or 15 Norwegian crowns) on the
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The company, which employs about 200 people, was founded in 1995 by two former developers for the Norwegian telecom group Telenor as an offshoot of a company project.
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