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This article was written on May 23, 2008 by CyberNet.

Opera Mini was born back in 2005, but it wasn’t put into the hands of the public until January 2006. Since that time the browser that fits in your pocket has experienced a tremendous rate of growth. As of March 2008 it has wiggled it’s way into the hearts of over 44 million users. Pictured to the right is what their growth rate has looked like since its public launch.

Those 44 million users aren’t just browsing a single page either. In March 2008 Opera Mini served up over 2.4 billion page views, which works out to about 55 page views per user. All of those page views come out to 33 million megabytes of data, which is about 31 terabytes. Yikes!

So what sites are people using Opera Mini for? In the United States here are the top 10:

1. myspace.com
2. google.com
3. mocospace.com
4. yahoo.com
5. facebook.com
6. live.com
7. hi5.com
8. wikipedia.org
9. itsmy.com
10. ebay.com

And then here are the top 3 sites visited for each of the top 10 countries that use Opera Mini:

1. Russia: vkontakte.ru, win.mail.ru, google.com
2. Indonesia: friendster.com, id.yahoo.com, google.com
3. China: sina.com.cn, baidu.com, google.cn
4. United States: myspace.com, google.com, mocospace.com
5. India: orkut.com, google.com, in.m.yahoo.com
6. South Africa: facebook.com, google.com, intl.yahoo.com
7. Ukraine: vkontakte.ru, google.com, darkworlds.ru
8. United Kingdom: facebook.com, google.co.uk, live.com
9. Germany: google.de, studivz.net, wer-kennt-wen.de
10. Poland: nasza-klasa.pl, lajt.onet.pl, google.pl

Note: You can get the top 10 sites for each of the countries above by viewing this report.

Opera Mini’s success is pretty huge (especially in Russia), and I think everyone has used it at least once when browsing the Internet on a mobile phone. As they continue to garner approval there’s a very good chance that mobile device manufacturers will select Opera Mini as the browser to bundle with their products. There’s definitely a bright future for Opera Mini.

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I hate to do two unicorn-related posts in a row–oh, who am I kidding? It’s my pleasure doing two unicorn-related posts in a row. Remember that “Canned Unicorn Meat” we told you about a few weeks back? It’s a goofy gift from ThinkGeek, a Spam-like concoction purporting to be made from the flesh of a mythical beast. 

Apparently it’s really hard to sneak the stuff into Germany, at least according to a ThinkGeek customer told the site,

I just learned that it is not very helpful to describe the “canned unicorn meat” as “canned unicorn meat” on the invoice when trying to import this. Customs get really irritated as it’s supposedly food and meat of a “rare” animal. For the sake of keeping things smooth please label it as “canned unicorn (plush toy)” or something less conspicuous. My delicous [sic] unicorn is stuck in customs for almost a week now.

So there you have it–if you’re going to attempt to sneak mythical animal meat into a country, you’re going to have to find a more creative method…

Looks like unicorn meat may be more than just a meme-tastic joke. A farmer in China’s Hebei province is the proud owner of a unicorn cow. That’s a bit of a misnomer, actually–the cow really has three horns, but the one smack dab in the center of her head is much larger than the two normal ones on either side. It measures a full eight inches.

The owner first noticed the horn when the cow was born two years ago–though back then it was just a small bump on her forehead.

There is apparently some debate over whether the three-horned cow is a “true unicorn,” though not for the reasons you’d expect (i.e. it has three horns). LA-based “supernatural survivorologist” Seth Greening told AOL,

To know for sure if it is a true unicorn, one would have to talk to the crowds who have touched Mr. Jia’s cow and document how many conditions were healed, how many guilty parties identified, how many virginities restored, etc.

BlackBerry maker picks up Swedish company that delivers user interface designs to a slew of mobile products and that will bring its “talent to the BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphone platforms.”

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Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Technically, you can toy with just about anything, so the items that follow aren’t necessarily the ones you’ll find on the shelves of your average toy store, though there’s certainly a few of those too — mostly, they’re items that we thought were simply too awesome to escape your notice this year, but didn’t make it into our standard categories. Read on!

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