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Opera Unite is a Hail Mary
snydeq writes "Rather than view it as a game-changer, Fatal Execption's Neil McAllister sees Opera Unite as a Hail Mary bid for Opera to stay in the game. After all, in an era when even vending machines have Web servers on them, a Web server on the Web browser isn't really that groundbreaking. ...
Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time
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Opera Unite reinvents the Web
opera.com — Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of... the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers ... (more) Opera Unite reinvents the Web
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