Going Green: Opera opens first eco-friendly data center in Iceland
Icelandic company Thor just announced that Opera Software is the first company in the world to make use of a new eco-friendly Icelandic data center in Steinhella in Hafnarfjörður, the third largest city in Iceland. Opera will move a significant part of its data traffic to the new data center. The Thor Data Center is…
Putting x264 developer’s technical analysis of WebM (VP8) into perspective
The main x264 (H.264 encoder) developer, Jason Garrett-Glaser, has written up an interesting analysis of WebM/VP8. This analysis has gotten quite a bit of attention online, and a lot of people seem to take it as the final word on the matter. However, as with most things, there is more than one side to this…
WebM: High-quality free and open video for the Web
State of the Opera: Q1 2010
The financial results for the 1st quarter of 2010 are in. Once again the revenue is negatively affected by the currency situation, and a strong NOK. However, this will even out over time. The business itself was profitable, but a one-time expense caused a loss in the quarter. What's interesting is tha we are seeing…
Super-fast Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo, with Carakan, Vega, and Presto 2.5!
Dear Google: Please fork WebKit
Time to fork WebKit My wish for this year is for Google to fork WebKit. They should take the WebKit code, give it a new name, and create a separate browser engine based on that. This, I argue, would be in both Google's own interest, and in the interest of the open Web. …
