Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early Tuesday morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194. Both devices are the first hardware to be offered with Firefox OS on board, and both devices are now listed as “Out of ...
First Firefox Phones to Launch in June, But Not in US
on 4.16.13
Speaking at AllThingsD’s Dive Into Mobile conference on Monday, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs announced that the first Firefox OS smartphones will launch around June, Business Insider reported. The executive revealed that initial availability will be limited to emerging markets including Venezuela, Poland, Brazil, Portugal and ...
Mozilla’s ‘Persona’ Aims to Eliminate User Names, Passwords
on 4.10.13
Mozilla has released a second beta of its distributed online identity system, Mozilla Persona. The Persona project is Mozilla’s effort to tackle online identity management by eliminating usernames and passwords. Instead, Persona shifts the focus away from individual websites and handles the login details for you, using ...
Mozilla is Trying to Port Unreal Engine 3 Onto Firefox
on 3.28.13
Mozilla wants the Web to be a platform that's fit for any purpose. That's why the company is investing in Firefox OS—to fight back against the proliferation of platform-specific smartphone apps—and it's why the company has been working on WebGL, in order to bring 3D graphics to the browser, Emscripten, a tool for ...
Firefox is Also Reportedly Working on a Smartwatch
on 3.22.13
Rumors have been swirling about Apple and Samsung building smartwatches, but they're not the only ones. One Chinese company is reportedly looking to get into the time-keeping game Firefox OS. Known for its e-readers and an Android-fueled smartwatch released last year, a subdivision of massive Chinese tech outfit Shanda ...
Mozilla Unveils Firefox Phone (Right Now, for Developers Only)
on 1.22.13
Mozilla said it won't be launching its own hardware to run the in-development Firefox OS when it's finished, but the company has just announced a "Developer Preview Phone" for putting the OS through its paces. It's not quite the same as the mystery device we saw sporting Firefox OS at CES, but its specs seem almost as ...
Firefox 17 heads out of beta, officially drops support for OS X 10.5
on 11.20.12
We've just seen an update to Firefox for Android, but that's not the only revision that Mozilla has had in the works. Tuesday also sees the release of version 17 of the desktop browser, which brings with it a number of changes and one noticeable omission. The latter is a lack of support for Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard), ...
Twitter investigating why tweets aren’t posting in IE8, tells users to switch browsers already
on 10.22.12
Twitter is currently investigating an issue where tweets are not posting in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. In the meantime, the social network recommends that IE8 users “migrate to another browser” and points them to browsehappy.com. Browse Happy is a website that urges Internet citizens to upgrade their browsers. ...
Mozilla launches Firefox marketplace for Android
on 10.19.12
Software developer Mozilla has launched a preview edition of its integrated Firefox marketplace for Android developers. Available now in the Aurora development version of Firefox for Android, the feature includes a number of "showcase apps" in the areas of games, productivity and news and media that users can browse, ...
As promised, Mozilla releases updated Firefox 16 with security patch for Windows, Mac, and Linux
on 10.11.12
After pulling Firefox 16 Wednesday night due to a security hole, and then releasing a patch for Android, Mozilla has now released version 16.0.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can get the latest and most-secure Firefox now from ftp.mozilla.org. Throughout the day, the update will trickle down to mozilla.org/firefox and ...
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