Google Top Website, iPhone, LG Rumor2 & BlackBerry Top U.S. Phones, Says Opera

Top 10 global mobile websites for November 2010

1. Google.com (up 1).
2. Facebook.com (down 1).
3. Vkontakte.ru.
4. Youtube.com (up 4).
5. Odnoklassniki.ru (down 1).
6. Yandex.ru (up 1).
7. Yahoo.com (up 2).
8. My.opera.com (down 2).
9. Mail.ru (down 4).
10. Getjar.com (up 3).

Top U.S. Handsets for November 2010

1. Apple iPhone.
2. LG VM265 "Rumor2."
3. BlackBerry 8520 "Curve."
4. BlackBerry 9700 "Bold."
5. LG VM510 "Rumor Touch."
6. BlackBerry 8330 "Curve."
7. Samsung SPH-M810 "Instinct S30."
8. BlackBerry 9630 "Tour."
9. BlackBerry 8530 "Curve."
10. BlackBerry 9000 "Bold."

Global trends

• Opera Mini saw significant increases in all three categories of growth in November 2010: unique users, pages viewed and data consumed.? In all, 80 million people used Opera Mini in November, 44.6 billion pages were served, and 6.3 petabytes of operator data were compressed for Opera Mini users.
• Nigeria passed the United States in terms of total Opera Mini users in the month of November.
• The United Kingdom, Belarus, Philippines, Poland, Bangladesh and Germany all went up in the ranking of top 20 countries.? Turkey was a new addition in November, and Malaysia fell off the list.

More results can be obtained in the report: www.opera.com/smw/2010/11/.

With more than 80 million monthly users, Opera Mini is the most popular browser on mobile devices.? In November alone, users viewed more than 44 billion webpages and saved money, while the Opera servers compressed more than 6 petabytes of data.

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Android App: Google Voice Search Gets Personal with Google Voice Search Personalized for Android 2.2

When Google Voice Search was first launched, they wanted to make it work out of the box, without an initial setup process.? So Google built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents, or variations in pitch, pace, and other factors.

Google didn't want it to require training.? Now, however, there is personalized recognition to train Google Search to learn your personal voice patterns and pitch.

If you opt into personalized recognition, it will begin to associate the recordings of your words with your Google account.? Google then automatically uses these words to build a speech model specifically for you.? This speech model enables Google to deliver greater recognition accuracy.? Although subtle, accuracy improvements begin fairly quickly and will build over time.

The first time you use Voice Search, you'll be presented with a dialog to turn on personalized recognition.

The personalized recognition functionality is currently available for English in the United States.? Google plans to support other countries and languages in the near future.? To enable it, you must have Android 2.2 or higher, and you must download the latest version of the Voice Search app from Android Market.? The new app also includes some improvements to name recognition and speed, especially over 3G and EDGE connections.

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Android, iPhone, Web App: Google eBooks

Google eBoooks are now available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore through the web, Android/iPhone apps and on eReaders.? Book purchases are charged to your Google Checkout account.? Bestseller books prices range from around $9.99 to $12.99, and are mostly cheaper than hard-bound versions of the books.? For example, Decision Points by George W. Bush costs $18.89 on Amazon for the hard-bound version and $9.99 for the digital Google eBooks version.

You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles, including hundreds of thousands for sale.? Find the latest bestsellers like James Patterson's Cross Fire ($12.99 on Google and $14.96 for hardback on Amazon), and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.? Dig into popular trends like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken ($9.99).? You can catch up on the free classics like Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gulliver's Travels.

Google eBooks stores your library in the digital cloud, so you can read all of your favorite books, using just about any device with an Internet connection.? Google eBooks is compatible with Android phones, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, web browsers and many supported eReaders (Nook Sony).

For many books, you can select which font, font size, day/night reading mode, and the line spacing that suits you--and pick up on the page where you left off when switching devices.

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