The Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta will include the following great features:

• Improved rendering engine
  Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta uses the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which will also be used in the Opera 10 desktop browser. Presto 2.2 offers faster page loading, and we’re excited to use this state-of-the-art rendering engine and be at the forefront of standards support with 100/100 on Acid 3.
• Opera Turbo
  Finally we can show you Opera Turbo on mobile! Opera Turbo accelerates the browsing experience by reducing bandwidth consumption up to 80%. Many of you will be familiar with Opera’s compression technology from using Opera Mini, and with Opera Mobile 9.7 you’ll get the best of both worlds – a full-fledged browser with extra Turbo capabilities. It’s not the full version of Opera Turbo yet (yes, that’s a Beta feature in a Beta release), but we couldn’t wait to show you this cool feature.
• Improved Widget Manager
  Opera Widgets are small, handy Web applications that run locally on your mobile phone. Our new Widget Manager has improved usability and design, and runs independently from the browser.
• Gears
  Gears is a Google open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser.

• OpenGL ES
  Hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES support, ensuring smoother scrolling, panning and a more fluid user interface.

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The MobileBeat 2008 conference ended on 24th july 2008. The main discussion was how companies can make money on mobile. And so mobile advertising was main topic. Many big faces attended the conference like Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Admob, Michael Bayle, GM of wireless at Yahoo. Everyone realized that, industry need to work hard to to do a better job of explain the parallels between the mobile and digital worlds to ad agencies.Jeff Sellinger, executive VP and GM of CBS ( NYSE: CBS) Mobile, said video and TV revenues are slowly growing and that he’s particularly interested in virtual goods and content applications. “I think in the future, mobile TV hold’s a nice revenue stream for us, too.” But the big thing will be converting ads and content to actual commerce. “We’re huge proponents of mobile advertising ? and we think that will be a big part of our revenue,” but it’s not today. Don’t forget, premium SMS still brings in plenty of revenue.