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Mozilla showcases 7 commercial Firefox OS devices

Posted on February 24, 2014 by

firefox-os (2)With a rapidly growing market & new partners coming in, Mozilla has used the World Mobile Congress platform to launch 7 commercial Firefox OS devices, & a new self-service partner portal to fast track manufacturers & streamline bringing devices to market. The latter will enable manufacturers to resources & readily available brand information at one place.

In a press release here, Mozilla said it had also formed the ‘Open Web Device Compliance Review Board’ (CRB) along with its major partners globally, in order to define and evolve the process of encouraging API compatibility and competitive performance for open Web devices.

Meanwhile, teleco Spreadtrum has announced its first chipset on Firefox OS for US$25 entry level smartphone phones. The SC6821 redefines the entry level for smartphones in key growth markets.

2013 had witnessed a whole new range of Firefox OS devices on sale in 15 global markets, with 4 operators & 3 handsets manufacturers. Firefox has planned to expand in 8 more countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama with Telefonica this year.  Deutsche Telekom will also add 4 new markets: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Montenegro. After Telkomsel and Indosat joined the list of operators supporting Firefox OS, there are 21 key operators globally supporting Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem initiative.This list also includes partners announced last year: America Movil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three Group, KDDI, KT, MegaFon, Qtel, SingTel, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia Group, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, TMN & VimpelCom.

Operators such as Spreadtrum, Telenor, Telkomsel ,Indosat, Polytron, T2Mobile & Thundersoft were actively working towards WCDMA and EDGE turnkey reference designs for Firefox.

As far as technology and innovation were concerned, Firefox OS devices were first of its kind built on open Web standards, with every feature developed as an HTML5 application.

Mozilla also showed the forthcoming features of Firefox OS at its press event, demonstrating its flexibility, scalability, data privacy & powerful customization empowered users, developers & carriers, to create the exact mobile experience they wanted.

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Huntercoin: An Online game where you mine crypto currency with your mind

Posted on February 20, 2014 by

crypto currencyFirst, there was Bitcon, now there are many more. The new kid on the block is Huntercoin, a human mineable, peer-to-peer distributed crypto currency & game. The crypto currency used is similar to that of Bitcoin, in one sense.

Bitcoin is a virtual/electronic, unforgeable currency that can be converted into real money & can also be used for traded goods & services. There are several other electronic currencies with new names & same character available throughout the online marketplace. Sometimes, except for the name, these are not even differentiate in terms of features & originality.

But Huntercoin, claims the company, has something new to offer, especially for Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG). Huntercoin combined with MMOG enables players to meritoriously earn coins using strategic approach & teamwork. The players basically earn Huntercoins (HUC) while they play.

HUCs are human mineable, its innovative implementation of crypto currency algorithms does not require any special gaming hardware or expertise to earn them. It offers great deal of transparency & availability to the rich & diverse world of crypto currency, making it more attractive to the general users.

The game is the 2D virtual world, where players can use hunters to move around the map, mine coins & store them to a specific location. The HUC balance is then transferred to electronic wallet. From there HUCs can be traded for Bitcoins or physical money through exchanges like Poloniex.

The players can download client-side software from Huntercoin website. They can further acquire HUCs through exchange like Poloniex.

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