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Opera Software's big news here at Mobile World Congress was Opera Turbo, a new server-side Web browsing accelerator. But at a sit-down with PCMag.com, Opera CEO Jon Tetzchner talked about Opera's missing pieces: the iPhone, Palm's WebOS, and T-Mobile USA.

The long-awaited Verizon iPhone will be available in February, and scores of new smartphone converts will finally be able to check their e-mail while brushing their teeth, play Plants vs. Zombies while chewing their morning muffins and carry out bank transactions while walking to work.

Apple just released a new version of iOS. What new goodies await inside the 400-megabyte package? Not much, as far as this writer can tell. Apple iOS v4.2.6 squashes a bug in the Personal Hotspot feature included with the freshly released Verizon iPhone. And that's about it, according Apple's infamously illustrative release notes.