Opera has scheduled an important event for today during which it unveiled a totally new service, the Opera Unite. The Unite is supposed to be a web-based application which is built-in the Opera browser. As the name suggests this service will make your computer, data and media available via any web browser in the Unite cloud. Yes, the Unite is a new cloud sharing which will bring you features like:

File sharing — securely share files direct from your computer

Web server — turns your home computer into a web server via Opera Unite URL

Media player — direct link to your music collection from any web browser

Photo sharing — shares your image library over the web without requiring a photo service

Lounge — self-contained chat service running on your computer

Fridge — a place where friends and family can post notes

Anyone impressed yet? Are you already installing Opera on your system?

via Press

Tags: Cloud, Mobile Software, Opera, software, Unite

Microsoft seems ready to step in Apple’s shoes when it comes to cloud services. And it plans to make that step bigger and better. While Apple’s MobileMe is available for iPhone users, the future service from Microsoft, the SkyBox will apparently bee available for non-Windows Mobile phones too.

Microsoft will unveil those cloud services at MWC in February and besides SkyBox we will also see SkyLine and SkyMarket in action. Skyline will sync your phone info to the cloud. It does exactly what you expect it to do: contacts, email/SMS, calendar and pictures, backup and restore. SkyLine is the business version of SkyBox and it comes with Exchange.

Will we see Windows Mobile 6.5 emerge at MWC too? The pictures certainly seem to indicate that. We’ll keep you in the loop next month when all of this will become reality.

via Neowin

Tags: Cloud, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MWC, SkyBox, SkyLine, Skymarket, Windows Mobile 6.5