Cricbuzz and Opera Software extend ties on Opera Mini Speed Dial

Opera Mini's Speed Dial, one of the most popular features of the web browser provides users with quick access to their most used links and bookmarks from the second the browser is opened. Cricbuzz.com has extended its ties with Opera Software until 2013 owing to the huge traffic received from Opera Mini users in India, .Opera Software teamed up with Cricbuzz in June 2011, to provide its users 'Live scores' of the India-England cricket series, along with a host of other cricket features through a start-page link campaign, a text-based banner on the Opera Mini home page.  This became an instant success, allowing Opera Mini cricket fans to get one-click access to live cricket scores, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket news, highlights, schedules, archives, picture galleries and lots more.

Speed dial, which is Opera Mini’s favored feature brings one-click access to frequently accessed links and bookmarks. The Opera Mini Speed Dial, includes the home page link to Cricbuzz.com in Cricbuzz’s 6-week campaign using the Opera Mini link. Cricbuzz.com claims to be the second largest cricket portal on the Web and the largest on mobile, and most advanced in terms of reliability, accuracy, richness of content and the speed of the data updates. "Our presence on Opera Mini's Speed Dial has helped in reaching out to the young mobile users in India. We are very happy to extend our partnership with one of the most popular players in the mobile browser category and hope this further helps in delivering information on cricket to more fans," said Pankaj Chhaparwal, CEO,Cricbuzz.com. "Our association with Cricbuzz clearly demonstrates the value we bring to not just our partners but our users as well," said Sunil Kamath, Sales Director for India & SAARC, Opera Software. "Opera Mini is the most widely used mobile web browser in India. It provides a gateway that helps organizations reach a majority of mobile web users."

Skype - coming soon to a Windows Phone near you

The biggest problem we had with the Windows Phones we reviewed, was that there was no Skype application for the platform. Before you go, ‘so what?’ we’ll remind you that Microsoft had already bought Skype, a long time back. So what’s the delay for?
According to The Verge, Skype VP Rick Osterloh has mentioned that Microsoft is working on a WP product with Skype that will be out soon enough. The earlier promise for full Skype integration for Windows Phones was late 2011, but as we can see that hasn’t been fulfilled. Now, however, they’re planning to bring an app to WP7 till they launch a fully-integrated version for the later builds of their operating system.

Let’s hope that Skype finally comes to Windows Phones at the MWC next month, because then Microsoft will finally merge and bring to us two things they already own!

Opera Mini second most used browser in India, states report

In their latest report, called 'State of Mobile Web', Opera software has confirmed that their Opera Mini browser is the second most used browser in the country. Reportedly, by the way of the 'State of the Web' report, Opera aimed at keeping a tab on the usage pattern of Opera browsers, in India.

Opera for mobiles

Elaborating on the findings of the report further, it was found that in over 22 countries round the world there are roughly a million active users of the Opera Mini browser. In the report, Opera listed down the names of the 22 nations in the world who've crossed the million mark, as far as Opera Mini usage goes. Of these 22 nations, which included Russia, Indonesia, India, Ukraine, U.S, China, among others, India, at present ranks second with an annual rate 180 million MB of traffic coming in through the Opera Mini browser.

The report stated that, "Despite the fact that Opera Mini was not designed to be a smartphone browser (that’s what Opera Mobile is for), many smartphone users do, in fact, use it, as do even more non-smartphone users."  Additionally, it was found that sites like Google, Facebook and YouTube were the most popular websites accessed, and Opera users preferred Nokia's 2690, 2700c and 5130, when it came to using the browser.

Download Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 Now !

If you love browsing the web on your phone or tablet , you should be familiar with Opera Mini and Opera Mobile.Today the company announced the next major version of it’s mobile browsers – Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 which the company promised to launch at CTIA Wireless
While Opera Mini is meant for less powerful phones , Opera Mobile is aimed at powerful smartphones like the Symbian and Android phones.
Opera Mini 6  is available for the following platforms

• Java / J2ME
• Symbian including S60 V2 phones
• BlackBerry

Opera Mobile 11 is available for

• Android
• Symbian
• Windows 7 Tablets
• MeeGo including WeTab
• Nokia N900

For Java phones which do not support Opera Mini 6 there is a new version – 4.5
Head over to m.opera.com from your phone to grab the latest versions of the most awesome mobile browsers or you can download them on to your PC