Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

Opera Mini for iPhone

INSTALL:APPLE THIS week approved the first browser other than its own Safari for use on the iPhone: Opera. Once a contender on the PC, Opera now focuses on the mobile market with the result that Opera Mini is super-fast.

Techies and designers complain that it doesn’t render some webpages correctly and its zooming function is fiddly. It’s not perfect but for free it’s a great addition to your app arsenal.

www.opera.com/mobile/

From your car

SURF: MANY PEOPLE are wondering what to do with the iPad when it finally comes to these shores. Cubic Telecom boss Pat Phelan has decided to use his in his car.

To that end he has installed mobile broadband in his car using a Vodafone sim card and Novatel’s MiFi device, which creates a personal Wi-Fi zone. Read the blog post to find out how you can get broadband on the motorway.

http://bit.ly/9MjSGX

The nation with the internet industry

DIGITISE: TO TIE in with its annual conference, the Irish Internet Association (IIA) is hosting a week of events called Digitise the Nation from May 16th to 21st. Describing it as a "red nose day" for the internet industry, the plan is for IIA members to showcase their skills and engage the wider community with the possibilities of digital communication.

Activities include the creation of an online time capsule by uploading videos to YouTube and photographs to Pix.ie.

www.iia.ie

All Twitter's Chirp announcements in one handy list

READ: TWITTER HELD its first conference for developers this week in San Francisco and used the event to make a series of announcement about the service, which attracts 50 million posts a day. There is information on everything from the first tentative steps into advertising to location- based services, and the Next Web pulls it all together in one post.

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