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Opera Mini and Spice Mobile in Femina magazine

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I happened to come across this mention of Opera Mini in India's Femina magazine (Dec 31st issue). It was nice to see how it mentions "...features like Opera Mini for speedy browsing complete the picture."

They sure are right. No phone can be complete without Opera Mini! :angel:

If you come across similar Opera Mini mentions or articles in a magazine in India, do let us know. :smile:

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Season's Greetings



Today we recieved our christmas gifts from our Oslo headquarters. It added cheer to the christmas spirit, and we'd like to share that festive spirit wih you as well, so season's greetings everyone! :D Have fun :hat:
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Wolf tries a dosa

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He did say he was hungry...
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Want to win $5000?

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Ok, so here is the challenge: Make an X-Widget (AKA cross device widget). An X-widget is a widget which can be used on PC/Mac computers as well as Mobile phones. It can be a game, a shopping app, anything you like! The best ones will win some cool cash...

  • 1st Prize: $5000
  • 2nd Prize: $2000
  • 3rd Prize: $1000
T-shirts and $50 Amazon gift cards for the first 20 qualified entrants. The best weekly widget will be rewarded with a $300 Amazon gift card. :smile: Theres a total of $10,000 of prizes up for grabs! :D

If your X-Widget is among our top picks, we will promote it on widgets.opera.com and you might also find it bundled in our next widget product release! :cool:

Head over to the widgets blog for more information!
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Thanks for a great evening!

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Thanks to Netra, Prashant, Shivam, Monica, Atul, Nikhil and all others who came to the Opera community meetup to chat with me, Sagar and Jon. We had a great time interacting with Opera fans over some nice drinks and good food.

We at Opera were delighted to know how passionate our fans are, and were happy to answer questions regarding Opera and the browser industry in general. It was also very interesting to connect with our fans and know more about them, and in the process forming a greater and stonger bond with them.

We'll definitely have more such meetups in the future as well!

Click here for more pics.
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Opera community meetup in Delhi on October 9

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Hey all!

We are organizing a meetup of Opera fans in Delhi on the evening of Oct 9 from 7 to 9 PM. It will be great for us in Opera to interact with real Opera fans.

If you are in Delhi or NCR and would like to come to the event, then please RSVP by sending a mail to

shwetankd [at] opera.com

For the people who come, there might be some other special surprises as well :wink: :cheers:

The event detials are as follows:

Venue: "Ruby Tuesday", 14-15 Community Center, PVR Anupam Complex, Saket.
Time: 7 to 9 PM
Date: Thursday, October 9

Update: Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO and Co-Founder of Opera, is in India during that time and will be coming to interact with fans at the event as well!

We can only accomodate a fixed number of people, so RSVP soon or seats may run out!
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Whats up with that?

Our next installment of the 'whats up with that' photos...













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Join the force!

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Opera India is looking for a creative marketing manager to help spread Opera in this little part of the world. If you or your friend may be interested, please feel free to apply online.

We are also, always, on the lookout for people with excellent skills in Web technologies (AJAX, CSS, XHTML etc.) for our QA and Web Applications department. See Opera's Career pages for more or leave a comment.

If you want to be a part of something great, a part of a product that competes with the likes of Microsoft and Google, a product used by millions worldwide everyday, come join us!
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Campus placements, IIIT-Allahabad

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Opera recently visited the campus of IIIT Allahabad to conduct tests and interviews, in the hope of finding great talent. And boy did we find talent!

So much infact, that it was very hard for Snorre, Kripanjali, Rune, Geir and myself to select a few to be a part of the Opera family.


On August 13, more than 120 students participated in Opera's two rounds of quizzes. The final select few were interviewed until well over midnight and some more during the wee hours of the morning.

Starting January 2009, we will host 6 new employees in the Web Applications team of the India office. They will create widgets (and other secret stuff :ninja: ) for the benefit of millions among Opera's community and web browser user base. They will help in strengthening Opera's leadership in producing cross platform widgets that can work on any device.

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Its been a month...

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Hello everyone. I'm Siddhartha, the new intern at the Opera India Office. And I just felt this need to give you a more personal insight into the Opera India gang.

Well, the month started with Vivek on a mission to save the world in 4 mins. The Madonna bug had got us all... But we (he mostly) did conquer it, only to realise our friendly neighbourhood pappu... hadn’t figured out how to dance. And well... nothing much has changed in that department since. I promise i will keep you updated.

Well, moving on, Jaswinder is all set to go the Yankee way. And all of us here have our own evil interests of getting goodies smuggled out of the states through him.

Anil, rock solid on his Enfield, just narrated to us the other day, the story of his "Roadies" audition few years back... well... the details are too gory to write about here... all i can say is, the day didnt go well for one unnamed, flamboyant gentleman... And Anil of course had the last laugh. So, next time you feel like spamming him... give it a second thought. (Issued in public interest!!)

We have all begun to have doubts that Hari has a dual personality. He is Hari by the day... and a bug fighting Super hero by the night. Who never sleeps... never takes a break. Just crunches through software bugs, and makes the net a safer place for all of us. He is seldom seen outside his QA realm, though our sources have confirmed he has been humming the latest bollywood numbers recently. Do we have a story here?? We will have to wait for this one.

Sagar, is a famous man now. The Norwegian national paper, DN, published his interview, on the growing Opera usage in India. Well, looking smart is the least we can say about the footage. For those of you who can read Norwegian, here's the article and the interview video. And for others, we have the Google translator after all (English translation).

Well, as for Arvind, he has been mysteriously getting better at Ricochet Robots, by the day. And no matter how much he tried, I still haven’t figured out how to get the robots bouncing the right way. I'm still trying to find a rule that says, interns are supposed to suck at the game.

And about me, my first office experience has been amazing. Though it’s like spoiling the kid, because I wonder any other office anywhere is going to be this professional and this unpretentious at the same time. For the first time in my life, people around me are cracking technology jokes I don’t get. Damn!! We in college still got a long way to go.

Long hours have been spent into intensively planning the next team trip. To a secret fun destination. 100 points to anyone who can guess the right place. Please leave the answer in the comments, and we will get back to you with our detailed points calculation table. Not to let you down, I currently have 10 gazillion points and will soon catch up with board leaders Navjot and Shwetank, who have been in Oslo a long time. We miss you guys!!

And I of course cannot miss out on the latest addition to our team. The Opera Kestrel 9.5. The latest offering from the Opera armoury, has been a much discussed about member of our team. Wish all software was equally beautifully engineered...

This brings us to an end of this episode of Opera.in news... Will BRB....