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If all you saw was the big news about Mozilla giving up on Firefox OS for phones, you might be surprised to hear that the commercial project was still active. But it was. In fact, Panasonic released a ...
Mozilla today announced that it will end Firefox support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in August 2016. Unlike Google, which also dropped Windows XP and Vista ...
Mozilla outlined its Firefox OS mobile platform, served up some notable screens and highlighted a bevy of global carrier partners in emerging and developed markets. Although the initiative is notable, ...
As the mobile operating system market continues to be dominated by Android and iOS, and with Windows Phone dropping to a measly 1.7 percent market share, there doesn’t seem to be much room for ...
Released in 2013, Firefox OS was supposed to pick up where webOS left off, with a mobile operating system built on open web standards like HTML5. Unlike Apple and Google who chased performance gains ...
This week at the developer event Mozlando, Mozilla revealed that Firefox OS was dead. At the same time, they really didn't. They suggested that they'd no longer be bringing the smartphone love with ...
Although Mozilla is walking away from Firefox OS on smartphones, the browser-based platform isn’t dead yet. Citing leaked internal documents, a report by Hipertextual (via SlashGear) claims that ...
It's been real, Firefox OS. Mozilla's Firefox OS isn't strictly speaking dead, but it may as well be as far as smartphones are concerned. The company announced via email that it would stop supporting ...
Some time ago, Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, introduced something called Firefox OS. Pretty much exactly what you think it is, Firefox OS is a lightweight operating system ...
With asm.js and WebGL technologies, Mozilla's browser-based mobile OS will soon get games like Where's My Water. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...
Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica will be the first carriers to carry the Firefox OS gadgets, the Alcatel One Touch Fire and ZTE Open. Mozilla today announced that it will soon launch the first ...
Andreas Gal, co-founder of Mozilla's mobile OS project, joins others from the project in a startup to link new devices to the Net. It's part of big changes coming to Firefox OS. Stephen Shankland ...