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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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Guess who is working on the next-gen browser engine? Mozilla & Samsung

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

Mozilla & electronic consumer goods giant Samsung are said to have teamed up to develop a new, highly secure Web browser engine dubbed Servo, built on Mozilla’s new “safe systems” programming language called Rust. The engine is aimed at taking advantage of multicore, heterogeneous computing architectures.

A web browser engine is a software component that takes marked up content like  HTML & XML & formatting information such as CSS, XSL, etc & displays the formatted content on the screen.  A layout engine is typically embedded in web browsers, e-mail clients, e-book readers, on-line help systems or other applications that require the displaying of web content.

Meanwhile, Mozilla has also launched Firefox 20, its popular free web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux & Android users. Firefox 20 includes updates like per-window private browsing, new download manager in the browser’s toolbar, ability to close frozen plugins, among others.

Firefox 20 will allow users to enjoy private browsing (Incognito mode on Chrome) without opening a new tab. This will allow users to access multiple web accounts without signing off one or using a different web browser to access it.

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