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Opera Mini submitted to Apple App Store

Posted by | Mar 23, 2010 | , |

Opera Mini by Opera Software (http://www.opera.com) for the iPhone was officially submitted to the Apple App Store today. Its developers claim it can power through web pages up to six times faster than Safari.

Due to server-side rendering, Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90% before sending it to the phone, resulting in rapid page loading and more Web per MB for the end use, says Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder, Opera Software. Creating a version for iPhone is part of Opera’s mission to bring the web to all platforms and all devices, he adds.

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Fifth Avenue Apple Store fifth most photographed location in NYC

Posted by | Mar 23, 2010 | , |

According to an analysis of 35 million Flickr images undertaken by Cornell students on a university supercomputer, the Fifth Avenue Apple Store is the fifth most photographed landmark in New York City — and the 28th most photographed landmark in the world, reports “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/23/nycs-new-landmark-the-apple-store/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29″).

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iPhone, iPod touch capture US video game market share

iPhone, iPod touch capture US video game market share

Posted by | Mar 23, 2010 | , |

More than 30,000 games have been released in the iPhone App Store since its launch in July 2008, according to the Flurry (http://www.flurry.com). With titles that consistently dominate the Top Paid and Top Grossing lists, there’s no question that the games category is the most lucrative category in the Apple Apple Store, says the research group.

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