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Opera has launched a mobile app store, featuring more than 140,000 free and paid apps for major mobile platforms. According to the company, Opera mobile store has been optimized for its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers to provide speedy access to its 100 million users with just a click. The store can also be accessed through other browsers like Chrome and Firefox.
Opera just announced that it will be launching a mobile app store of its own that will feature around 140,000 free and paid apps for mobile platforms like Android and BlackBerry. The folks at Opera might not have even taken a breather from pushing this news out to thousands of media publications and we are hearing chatter that GetJar, one of the largest independent app store has ejected Opera Mini from its store.
RockMelt, the new socially-focused web browser backed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, was released (by beta invite request only) Monday. The browser aims to transform web browsing into a true social experience by closely integrating with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
The browser has been in development for two years, and uses the Chromium engine pioneered by Google’s Chrome browser. RockMelt founders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes recently sat down with PCMag.com to talk about their new toy and how it stands out from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Flock, and all the rest of them.
“All the browsers available today, although they’ve gotten a lot faster, are still just about navigating web pages. We built features into the browser to address people’s three top browsing behaviors: interacting with friends, consume news and information, and searching,” said Howes.
With all the competition, RockMelt faces an uphill battle. Even the critically-acclaimed Flock social browser, which aims for basically the same target, has yet to capture a mainstream audience. But RockMelt has a couple of aces up its sleeve. Read more
Mobile-application developer HipLogic tapped two prominent Internet companies to strengthen its executive team, bringing aboard former MySpace head of mobile products and technology Jason Ling as vice president of product development and former Opera Software manager of worldwide marketing Stephanie Jorgl as head of marketing.
Ling will help drive product innovation at HipLogic. During his tenure at the social-networking site, he oversaw product vision and mobile strategy for next-generation mobile and new-media applications, and he drove strategic creations of MySpace mobile social-network products. He has also worked with Disney and Infospace.
Jorgl managed worldwide marketing for Opera consumer products including its Opera Browser, Opera Mini, and Wii Internet Channel, and she developed launch strategies for Opera Link and Opera Dragonfly, as well as conceptualizing and launching the company’s “Rock Opera” branding. She also served as an Internet marketing manager for Apple.
“Jason and Stephanie are great additions to the HipLogic team given their past experience helping companies succeed in mobile,” CEO Mark Anderson said.
Fans of Opera Software’s mobile browser will be excited to learn that the company has opened the beta for version 9.5 of the popular software.
This latest revision, which the company claims is its “best mobile browser to date,” boasts a new, cleaner user interface, better performance and the ability to save pages and images, Pocket-lint reports.
You can download the browser here.
