New Firefox phones - the first in a slew of new smartphones based on operating system alternatives to Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone - will be launched in February. Created by a Spanish startup called Geeksphone, the ...
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Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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In the next 12 months, smartphones with five new operating systems are scheduled to go on sale, leaning on Web technologies and improved user interfaces to try and make a dent in the dominance of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In two ...
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Mozilla,the software firm behind the Firefox internet browser,has confirmed it's to enter the smartphone market later this year. Chinese mobile device manufacturer ZTE is among the firms Mozilla is working with,as the Firefox developer ...
Linux operating system vendor Canonical has unveiled a mobile version of its Ubuntu operating system which, it says, will be available from 2014. Ubuntu for Phones is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Unity user interface that ...
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Breaking into the smartphone market with a new platform may seem to be a tall order, but Finnish company Jolla think it can be done and has demonstrated the user interface of its upcoming operating system Sailfish. Jolla, which means ...
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Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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Jolla,the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees,has finally unveiled Sailfish,the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in"stealth mode"for almost a year before it launched in the summer,and ...
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