Norway’s Opera software has been working to push the Web browser envelope for years, and while they haven’t captures massive market share among desktop browsers they have made significant inroads in mobile browsers and other arenas—who do you think made the Web browser in the Nintendo Wii? Now, Opera Software is looking to “reinvent the Web” via Opera Unite, a new collection of free services that lets users share files, music, pictures, and more—plus run their own chat and Web servers—all without requiring data storage from upstream servers. Communication all happens between individual users’ personal computers, with no middle man.
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Get Your Wire Service on the Wii
p> In a move aimed to make it’s popular new Wii gaming console that much more the center of its owners’ lives—and further widen the systems’demographic appeal—Nintendo today announced it plans to launch the Wii News Channel this Saturday, offering Wii users with broadband Internet service thecapability to access news stories and photographs via the Wii version of the Opera Web browser.
Nintendo began offering the Opera Web browser for the Wii in late December, 2006: the trial version of the software is available now, with a final version expected in March, 2007. The browser will remain free to Wii owners until June 30, 2007, at which point it will be available for 500 Wii Points from the Wii Shop Channel.
Wii Goes to the Opera
A trial version of the Opera Web browser is now available for download for Nintendo’s Wii video game console. Assuming Wii owners have connected their systems’ to a home network or otherwise set them up for Internet access, the browser can be downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel on the Wii menu; from there, click Wii Ware (or Wii Software in the EU), then click Download the Internet Channel. (There’s even a comic explaining the process.)


