Mobile Data

Google Wants to Speed Up the Mobile Web, But Their Focus is Too Narrow

7 October, 2015 // 9 Comments

Google's highly-anticipated response to Facebook Instant Articles was announced today, and there's something missing. The WSJ, Android Police, Digiday, 9to5Google and a bunch of other sites are [Read More ...]

Opera Mini’s New Data-Saving Option Trades Page Quality for Data Savings

8 September, 2015 // 0 Comments

Opera has always touted that its Mini web browser could save bandwidth and cut mobile browsing data costs, but that savings came with a penalty: the data compression wrecked the formatting of many [Read More ...]

Hotspot Users, Rejoice! Opera Max Now Manages Data Usage on Wifi

26 May, 2015 // 1 Comment

Launched early last year, Opera Max lets users reduce data usage over a mobile connection by compressing the data stream using Opera's proprietary tech. It was a useful tool, but it had one key [Read More ...]

Google to Bring True Competition to the US Wireless Market?

22 January, 2015 // 7 Comments

Here's a story which I am hoping comes true. Yesterday the WSJ reported that Google was in negotiations with T-Mobile and Sprint to launch its own mobile service as an MVNO on their networks: Google [Read More ...]