One of the big boasts Opera's been making for years is that of the power of its mobile data compression routines, which shove web traffic through an optimisation process to lessen the eventual downloads over your phone's data link. Now Google's doing the same thing in the latest Android Chrome beta. Read More >>
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"I don't see Windows Phone or Internet Explorer mentioned once here, do you? Whilst we're at it, Blackberry does too and has done for many years. Compl..." More »
Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds. But what if you could gain access to all that computing power for free? Read More >>
Opera on the desktop is championed by the passionate few, but its mobile browsers have enabled smartphones and dumbphones alike to browse the web fast and light for years. Now Opera’s got a new Mini preview to show off and a final release of Opera Mobile 12 for Android – who needs Chrome? Read More >>
The Sydney Opera House is one of the three Lego Architecture models coming out this year, along with London's Big Ben and South Korea's Namdaemun Gate. It's a neat small construction. The £35 set—model 21012—includes 270 pieces. Read More >>
Web browser improvements seem to pop out at a pace barely detectable to the human eye, so periodically Tom's Hardware will go through every desktop browser on Windows and OS X with a fine-toothed comb and tell you which one comes out on top. This time around, they like Firefox and Safari. Read More >>
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"Acid3 does not test any html5 standards - the highest it tests is 4.01 strict among other standards (DOM, javascript, css etc)" More »
Just when you thought there was enough drama surrounding Julian Assange, here comes some more. Because those crazy Australians are planning a freaking Wikileaks opera to celebrate their home-grown hacker-cum-sexual deviant. Read More >>
Like Amazon, Opera wants to build a more efficient web browser for Android than what is offered by Google. According to Cnet, they're calling it Opera with Turbo. Inelegant as the name may sound, the idea behind it is anything but. Read More >>