TelefA3nica will be the first to offer a commercial smartphone based on Firefox OS. The Spanish operator will start selling the ZTE Open on Tuesday for a!69 (US$90) with a prepaid subscription. Firefox OS is built around applications ...
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The first Web-based Firefox mobile OS smartphones will be released soon in Spain and Poland, with more coming soon to other regions of the world, Mozilla announced Monday. ZTE will begin selling the ZTE Open smartphone on Tuesday for the ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 is now a more popular operating system than the reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as Microsoft's latest OS slowly continues to gather steam. According to?Net Applications' NetMarketshare ...
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Given Android and iOS together control 90% of the worldwide smartphone market, what chance does Mozilla have to find success with its new Firefox OS for smartphones? Will Firefox OS even matter, given the struggles Windows Phone, ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. The announcement, made during a Wednesday session at the company's BUILD developers conference, was first ...
While important, Google's new policy of scanning apps for malware before making them available on the official Chrome Web Store falls short of providing maximum protection, one expert says. Google launched an automated process for malware ...
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Google is revealing some new numbers around malware and phishing attempts in an effort to get more people thinking about online security and to make the Web safer. The data is being incorporated into the company's biannual transparency ...
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Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
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Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
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Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22,enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps. The update also included patches for 17 security ...
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
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When?OS X Mavericks?arrives later this year, a new version of Safari will come along for the ride. Apple's latest Web browser boasts smoother scrolling, a new Top Sites implementation, and several under-the-hood improvements.? These ...
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Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms. The rapid and stark decline of Symbian serves as a warning about ...
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