The Norwegian developer Opera Software has launched a new browser project. There Aim to change the basics of how a browser is used, said CEO Lars Boilesen on the Mobile World Congress in an interview with CNET.com. The development has been running since the end of 2015, the release of a first version is for the current year geplant.
‘);}googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(“div-gpt-ad-DESKTOP_IN_ARTICLE-0″);});document.write(‘
‘);}})(jQuery);
Opera CEO Lars Boilesen on the MWC 2013 (picture: News.com) “I want to add additional smart features” Boilesen said. For example, should the browser automatically can detect whether the user is reading messages, emails gets or is in a social network on the go, and to offer appropriate functions. “When you’re in an online store, you get way as shown Recommended” Boilesen gives a concrete example. “We try to predict.”
For the name of the project, its director, Opera’s chief technology officer Håkon Wium Lie, would not express in Barcelona. “I call it Opera smart, but he likes not the name” Boilesen said. Lie said then that there were already too many projects and products with “smart” in the name.
Opera was one of the browser pioneers who challenged Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and evolving slowly browser from a boring technique for foundation all new, exciting ideas made – of Google Maps to Facebook . Its software is distinguished for a long time through innovative features and its own engine called Presto. The latter, however, the company announced in 2013 in favor of Google’s WebKit-Fork Blink on.
Today, browser games, especially on mobile devices, in view of apps on the many functions can be displayed without going through a Web site, only a minor Role. Most users stick to the big names like Google Chrome , Microsoft Internet Explorer Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. According to figures from NetApplications Opera comes only to a level of 0.64 percent.
recently, however, again some challengers have found who want to compete with the incumbent browser vendors. These include Brave Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, Vivaldi by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, the Yandex Browser from Google’s biggest rival Russia and UCWeb, a acquired from the Chinese Internet company Alibaba Mobile browser. Even Microsoft tried Internet Explorer users to move to switch to its Windows 10 browser Edge.
After its share of the browser market shrank and remained the mobile advertising business below expectations, had Opera Software to print its begun shareholders in August 2015 in order to look for a buyer. This was eventually found in the form of a Chinese consortium, which provides between 1.2 billion for all company shares. Its members include among others the online games developer Kunlun tech and security vendors Qihoo 360th Even the approval by the shareholders and the Chinese regulatory authorities is pending. According Boilesen previously next to the supervisory board about 35 percent of shareholders approved the deal. The management have been doing no big say because it does not possess a lot of play.
The sale would open Opera’s mobile advertising business for 500 million new users in China, may use the then Opera browser. Currently placed him world about 350 million people, which most of the speed-optimized mini version that works on smartphones and simple on slow networks.
[with material by Stephen Shankland, CNET.com]
Tip: Are you familiar with browsers? Test your knowledge – with 15 questions on ITespresso.de
.
No comments:
Post a Comment