The European Union requires that Microsoft gives consumers a choice for their web browser. The browser ballot (choice screen) will present the top five web browsers in random order and allow users to download one or all of the browsers to use. Those browsers are: IE, Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, and Opera. Many in the industry see this as a chance for smaller browsers to compete against the likes of Internet Explorer.
Opera Web Browser has seen it’s number of downloads double directly as a result of this browser ballot. Opera reported that it’s European downloads for Opera 10.50 are up an average of 130 percent as a result of the ballot.
An Israeli security researcher recently published his new discovery, the exploit code for a security hole in Internet Explorer web browser, via his Twitter page. The researcher discovered the exploit after receiving clues from a McAfee blog post.
The Opera Beta version 10.50 for Mac has been released to the public. This comes on the tail of a recent release for Windows, and shows a more aggressive move into the Mac OS by Opera.
Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox, is gaining on Microsoft’s long dominant Internet Explorer. The Firefox browser has a built into tool that checks for new versions every 24 hours and reports back to a central server with the news. 
Adobe may have won support from Google, Motorola, Nvidia, Palm, RIM, and Qualcomm for Flash 10.1 software for smartphones and mobile devices. Flash is not currently available on most all phones. Flash video acceleration has not be widely available on mobile devices.