Firefox OS

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Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch A Linux Smartphone That Runs Android Apps

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | November 27, 2013

Jolla smartphone uses an OS based on the Nokia's former MeeGo project and will be sold in 135 countries Read More »

Firefox May Beat Google To A Web-Based Slate: Hello, Firefox OS Tablet

Kevin C. Tofel | GigaOM | January 17, 2014

I’ve been waiting for a web-based tablet and it looks like it’s coming soon. But it’s not the Chrome tablet I was expecting. Instead, meet the first slate in the Firefox OS tablet program. Read More »

Firefox OS Ecosystem Continues Expansion And Redefines The Entry-Level Smartphone

Press Release | Mozilla | June 10, 2014

Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is demonstrating the latest advancements to its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem at Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai...

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Firefox OS Ecosystem To Expand To Africa With Support From New Partners

Press Release | Mozilla | November 5, 2014

Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is pleased to announce that Firefox OS will soon expand to Africa...

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Firefox OS Is Now on Smartphones

Michael Blain | Las Vegas Guardian Express | October 23, 2013

Firefox has been the longstanding preference of tech savvy users for web browsing for the better part of a decade now.  Created by Mozilla, the Firefox OS is a natural extension of their mobile desktop and browsing interfaces, and now, thanks to LG, will be the gears and bolts now powering their new line of smartphones. Read More »

Firefox OS Mobilises HTML5, Without The Added Steve Jobs

Scott Gilbertson | The Register | July 2, 2013

Review Do you want to build applications for Firefox OS? The first step is to head over to the Mozilla website and sign up for a developer kit. Read More »

Firefox OS To Fuel Panasonic TVs, Chromecast-Like Devices

Eric Brown | LinuxGizmos.com | January 7, 2015

Panasonic will embed Firefox OS in its 2015 smart TVs, and Matchstick announced a Chromecast-like Firefox OS platform, to be used by Philips/AOC and TCL...

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Firefox OS To Outdo Android On Granular Application Permissions

Lucian Constantin | PC World | August 26, 2014

Future versions of the Firefox OS mobile platform will allow users to control application-specific permissions, a feature with both privacy and security benefits that’s missing on Android...

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Firefox OS-based ZTE One Coming To US, UK Through eBay

Barry Levine | CIO Today | August 12, 2013

For developers, a key selling point for Firefox OS devices is their emphasis on HTML5 apps, which can be readily adapted from Web apps and run on a variety of mobile platforms. [...] Read More »

Firefox OS: Create A Better Future

Staff Writer | Food World News | December 6, 2014

Seeking to empower people and allowing them to get involved in a better world, the makers of Firefox, Mozilla have just released a newly developed operating system for smartphones based on Firefox known as the Firefox OS.  Built entirely with the use of HTML5 and some other open Web standards, this new operating system is free from restrictions and the rules of proprietary platforms existing today...

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Foxconn Backs Firefox OS Play

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | June 3, 2013

Can the open-source, Linux-based Firefox mobile operating system become a mobile-space player? The question is far from answered but Mozilla has a new supporter: major electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn. Read More »

Foxconn Constructs HTML5 Smart Cross-Platform Integrating Support For Eight Screens, Internet And Cloud

Staff Writer | DigiTimes | February 21, 2014

The prospects of smart applications, which are needed to serve the purposes of cloud-based networks of sensing devices, IoT (Internet of Things) and terminal devices, have triggered strong interests in Big Data and inspired imaginations of next-generation cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. [...] Read More »

Geeksphone Revolution Switches Between Android And Firefox OS

Rich Trenholm | CNET | February 12, 2014

Change is hard. Fortunately, sometimes you can make a change without giving up on the past completely -- and that's the case for the new Geeksphone Revolution, which lets you try out Firefox OS without burning your Android bridges. Read More »

Geeksphone To Bring Firefox OS To Consumer Market With Peak+

Stephan Shankland | CNET | July 15, 2013

The Spanish company is expanding from the developer market to the broader consumer market with the Peak+, a higher-end phone than other Firefox OS models on sale. Read More »

Here's Why Mozilla Is Building A $US25 Smartphone

Keith Griffith | Business Insider Australia | May 3, 2014

Last week, Mozilla tapped Andreas Gal as its new chief technology officer...He’s intensely focused on Firefox OS, a mobile operating system with big ambitions: winning the battle for the next two billion smartphone users...

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