Norway's Opera Software released on Tuesday a new version of its browser, Opera 10, promising faster downloads, new design and new fea
tures.
Opera battles for the spot of third-largest browser maker with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari, but is far behind Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation.
Opera said the new browser is significantly faster on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook, and adds features like full thumbnails of all open tabs.
Opera said its Turbo feature for slow connections, which packages web pages, makes the browser up to eight times faster than rival browsers in low connection speeds.
"We have worked a lot on Opera Turbo technology and have also made major improvements on the overall product stability. This is the most stable Opera browser yet," the company said.
The companies usually release several successive test versions of their browsers so they can incorporate user feedback in a series of improvements before their final launch. Microsoft launched its latest IE8 browser in March after a year of public beta testing.
Opera unveiled a public test version of the browser on June 3. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is used for about 60 per cent of global Internet traffic, and Mozilla's Firefox has about 30 per cent, with usage of Opera, Google and Apple all around 3 per cent each, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
Opera has a small share of the global desktop browser market, but its browser is the most popular in countries like Russia or Ukraine, and its mobile browser is the most widely used browser on handsets.
Agencies
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Oil falls to below $42 a barrel in Asia
Oil prices fell below $42 a barrel Friday in Asia after Russia and Ukraine said a dispute over natural gas payments wouldn't affect shipments to Western Europe.
Light, sweet crude for February delivery fell $3.05 to $41.55 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by afternoon in Singapore. Trading was closed Thursday for New Year's Day.
The contract rose $5.57 on Wednesday, the last trading day of 2008, to settle at $44.60 after Russia threatened to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine. Russia followed through with that threat Thursday, though both countries pledged they would keep supplies to the rest of Europe flowing.
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom shut off gas supplies after talks broke down over Ukraine's payments for past shipments and a new price contract for 2009. Gazprom said it had boosted natural gas deliveries through other pipelines to Western Europe.
The European Union depends on Russia for about a quarter of its gas, with some 80 per cent of that delivered through pipelines controlled by Ukraine.
Concerns that the week-old conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could disrupt supplies in the oil-rich Middle East helped keep prices from falling further. Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border Thursday in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Oil prices began 2009 the same way they spent the most of the second half of 2008 _ going down. Crude peaked at $147.27 a barrel in July before plummeting to as low as $33.87 on Dec. 19.
Prices fell 54 per cent last year after soaring 57 per cent in 2007.
Investors remain focused on the slowing global economy and its impact on crude demand. The Department of Energy said earlier this week that U.S. fuel consumption fell 3.7 per cent in the four weeks ended Dec. 26 from a year earlier.
In other Nymex trading, gasoline futures fell 3.55 cents to $1.03 a gallon. Heating oil dropped 3.55 cents to $1.41 a gallon while natural gas for February delivery slid 2.2 cents to $5.60 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In London, February Brent crude fell $3.31 to $42.28 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Source: Agencies
Light, sweet crude for February delivery fell $3.05 to $41.55 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by afternoon in Singapore. Trading was closed Thursday for New Year's Day.
The contract rose $5.57 on Wednesday, the last trading day of 2008, to settle at $44.60 after Russia threatened to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine. Russia followed through with that threat Thursday, though both countries pledged they would keep supplies to the rest of Europe flowing.
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom shut off gas supplies after talks broke down over Ukraine's payments for past shipments and a new price contract for 2009. Gazprom said it had boosted natural gas deliveries through other pipelines to Western Europe.
The European Union depends on Russia for about a quarter of its gas, with some 80 per cent of that delivered through pipelines controlled by Ukraine.
Concerns that the week-old conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could disrupt supplies in the oil-rich Middle East helped keep prices from falling further. Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border Thursday in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Oil prices began 2009 the same way they spent the most of the second half of 2008 _ going down. Crude peaked at $147.27 a barrel in July before plummeting to as low as $33.87 on Dec. 19.
Prices fell 54 per cent last year after soaring 57 per cent in 2007.
Investors remain focused on the slowing global economy and its impact on crude demand. The Department of Energy said earlier this week that U.S. fuel consumption fell 3.7 per cent in the four weeks ended Dec. 26 from a year earlier.
In other Nymex trading, gasoline futures fell 3.55 cents to $1.03 a gallon. Heating oil dropped 3.55 cents to $1.41 a gallon while natural gas for February delivery slid 2.2 cents to $5.60 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In London, February Brent crude fell $3.31 to $42.28 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Source: Agencies
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