Opera has released Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile phones.
The mobile browser emulates the desktop feel, with a similar interface to Opera 10 and Opera Mini 5.
A full run down on features and a download link can be found on the Opera Mobile site.
A demo of Opera Mobile 10 in action is below:
Browser market share stats are out for October 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
As usual, Internet Explorer was down for the month, dropping from 65.71% to 64.64%, while Opera had a surprise loss, albeit only small, from 2.19% to 2.17%.
Firefox had a small gain, jumping from 23.75% to 24.07%. Safari was also up 4.24% to 4.42%.
Google Chrome share was the biggest winner for October, jumping from 3.17% to 3.58%.
Opera’s drop off is likely from users who were testing Opera 10 and have gone back to their original browser. The jump for Safari suggests strong sales for Apple Mac’s, confirming the bumper year the Cupertino based company has been having.
Opera has also pushed out a new version of its browser yesterday, bringing with it stability and security fixes.
Opera 10.01 includes 3 security fixes, 1 of which is rated as extremely severe, while the other 2 are rated as less severe.
The release also fixes 15 other stability issues. A full list of changes can be found in the changelog.
You can download Opera 10.01 from the Opera website.
Opera has announced that they have over 3 million Opera Turbo users speeding up their web experience since the release of Opera 10 on September 1st.
“Those three million consumers viewed almost 668 million compressed Web pages” said the press release.
“The numbers tell us that Opera Turbo solves critical bandwidth issues. People everywhere experience either slow, congested networks or must pay as they go for Web access. It is an issue that affects everyone, from the business traveler to the Internet café user. Opera Turbo has become universally useful,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.
Opera Turbo uses Opera’s powerful servers to compress Web pages, boosting browsing speeds on crowded Wi-Fi hotspots, tethered mobile phones and even dial-up internet links.
Opera Turbo can be found in Opera 10, and is a free download.
Microsoft has made changes to the browser ballot screen that will be shipped with Windows 7, and rolled out to past versions of Windows in European Union countries, in a bid to keep the European Union happy.
The ballot screen will give users the easy choice to download and install up to 12 different browsers, with the big 5 – Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera heading up the list.
Changes to the ballot screen include:
The browser ballot screen is set to be rolled out to users on October 22nd, the same day Windows 7 goes on sale worldwide.
Web browser market share results are out for September 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
Internet Explorer has had more than a 1% drop this month, falling from 66.97% to 65.71%, it’s biggest single month drop since November 2008.
Other browser have had a good month, with Firefox moving from 22.98% to 23.75%.
Safari has moved from 4.07% to 4.24%, while Google Chrome has passed the 3% mark moving to 3.17% – up from 2.84%.
Opera has also had a good month, most likely helped by the release of Opera 10, hitting a share of 2.19%, up from 2.04%.
The browser wars seem to be slowly eroding Microsoft’s dominance, which can only lead to greater innovation and better browsers for consumers.
Overnight, Opera has released Opera Mini 5 beta 1, and includes many new features.
The browser, which is available for free on a wide variety of phones, now includes tabbed browsing, speed dial, support for both touch and keypad phones, and a password manager.
The preview browser can be downloaded directly to your mobile phone, or from the Opera Mini Next website.
Opera Mini 5 for mobiles is on it’s way, at least according to Opera’s Espen André Øverdahl.
Little information has been revealed, but a splash page has been put up on Opera Next, with the tag line “Coming very soon: The next generation in mobile browsing”.
We will let you know as more information and a beta is released.
Opera have announced that Opera 10 was downloaded over 10 million times in the first week since the browser was released.
An impressive feat for the company, but it seems small in size. Apple’s Safari 4 was downloaded 11 million times in 3 days, while Firefox 3.5 was downloaded over 5 million times in 24 hours.
More information can be read in the Opera press release.
This months browser share statistics are out thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
August has panned out like another typical month, with Internet Explorer dropping to 66.97% in August, from 67.68% in July.
Firefox jumped slightly to 22.98% from 22.47%, while Safari remained the same at 4.07%.
Google Chrome also increased its share from 2.59% to 2.84%, while Opera was also up from 1.97% to 2.04%.