Will Opera Come To The iPhone?

We already know that there is an iPhone SDK in the works, and Apple plans to have it available for developers next month. And there is a pretty good chance that we’ll see something about it this week, if not today during Steve Job’s MacWorld 2008 keynote.

My question is, once the SDK is available will we see an Opera browser on the iPhone? I’ve not had any problems surfing with my iPhone, aside from the occasional “safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding” error message. If my experience is already good, could it get better? Continue reading

Opera Sues Microsoft For Antitrust Violations

Opera Software, ASA has filed a lawsuit in the EU against Microsoft, Corp. According to Opera, by bundling Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, Microsoft is illegally monopolizing the Internet browser market. This makes it difficult for third-party browser manufacturers to compete and limits consumers’ buying options.

In addition to requesting the removal of IE from Windows, the lawsuit also urges the EU to force Microsoft to make IE compatible with web standards. Anyone who has ever done any serious web design knows how hard it is to get sites to look the same across different browsers.

I wish the U.S. would do more to force Microsoft to play nice.