It’s a classic underdog story. When a couple of engineers at web browser maker Opera suggested to management that they should try building a mobile java version of their browser, no one listened. Well, they built it and it’s about to outgrow its desktop bigger brother. Here are some stats for browser market share:

Opera Mini
Opera

May
0.16%
0.74%

June
0.21%
0.91%

July
0.24%
0.89%

August
0.27%
0.88%

September
0.39%
0.87%

(source)
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I can’t help but smile when I read about TeliaSoneras “ace up their sleeve” in the fight for becoming the operator to sell the iPhone in Sweden. Imagine that: operators fighting over who should sell a phone!
Touch screen, nice GUI and a slick design: those are not the true innovations in the iPhone. The fact [...]

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The pieces of the Google Phone, gphone, puzzle is coming together. After acquiring Voice 2.0 company GrandCentral a couple of months ago they now extend to microblogging and presence with the acquisition of Jaiku (similar to Twitter but more mobile oriented).
I’ve said it a before: good mobile 2.0 services requires good web services in the [...]

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