Opera, the company behind popular desktop and mobile browsers, has launched the Opera Mobile Store, now available in over 200 countries.
The store is available at mobilestore.opera.com or as a ‘Speed Dial’ link for users of Opera Mini or Opera Mobile on their phones.
Opera says there are over 100 million Opera Mini/Mobile users around the world.
Appia, a marketplace technology company, is delivering the app store, which has applications for Java, Symbian, BlackBerry and Android operating systems.
Says Oepra:
The launch of the Opera Mobile Store supports Opera’s core belief in an open, cross-platform mobile Internet experience by providing Opera users with an integrated storefront of mobile applications. Our partnership with Appia delivers to all Opera Mobile and Opera Mini users easy access to a wide variety of great content, on any device, all over the world.
In beta form, Opera says the Store attracted 700,000 downloads per day.
Result for: marketplace
Microsoft has confirmed this weekend that the Zune HD is now available in Canada, years after its launch in the United States.
However, the Zune Music Marketplace is not available as a choice, yet, even though the video store is available.
It is unclear when the licensing issues will be corrected.
Available via Zune Originals, the 16GB model is $170 and the 32GB version is $200.
Canada is now the second country to get the Zune HD, as Microsoft has moved most of its development towards Windows Phone 7.
Result for: marketplace
In under three weeks since launch, Microsoft has boasted today that the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has hit its first milestone, 1000 available apps.
For comparison’s sake, the iOS App Store has 300,000 available apps, the Android Market has 100,000 apps and the BlackBerry App World has a bit over 10,000.
It is important to note, however, that the old Windows Mobile platform took a full seven months to reach 1000 apps.
There are no Windows Phone 7 devices yet available to the U.S. public, with the first batch hitting the States in two weeks.
Microsoft has launched a couple of phones in Europe and Asia.
