Samsung has revealed that its biggest competitor in the TV space is in fact itself. The South Korean tech giant unveiled a raft of TVs at this year’s CES 2015, apparently in a bid to outdo its own product portfolio. The egotistic ...
Tags: Samsung, TV, Consumer Electronics
Panasonic has announced its 2015 Smart TV range will run on Firefox OS, which is usually restricted to smartphones. During its CES 2015 press conference, Panasonic announced a partnership with Mozila that will see it launch Firefox ...
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Alcatel OneTouch has announced its latest range of Pixi smartphones which will arrive with the rather unique ability to run one of three operating systems. The Pixi 3 line of smartphones will allow users to choose from one of three mobile ...
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A small band of upstarts is chipping away at Google's mighty Android, hoping one day to overthrow the system that runs eight in 10 smartphones sold worldwide. Mozilla's Firefox OS and the Samsung-promoted Tizen staked a small claim to the ...
Tags: smart watches, Google's popular platform, smart devices
More choice-and confusion-is coming to the next generation of TVs. At least three new software systems were announced Monday for Internet-connected television sets, which let viewers watch Internet video and interact with friends online on ...
Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, is putting its software on Internet-connected television sets, starting with Panasonic's. Firefox OS becomes the latest system to power so-called smart TVs, which let viewers watch ...
Tags: Mozilla, Firefox OS, Internet-connected television sets, Panasonic
Online auctions site eBay is to acquire the 'speedy delivery' company Shutl, signalling a bid to bring delivery times down to just one hour in the UK. With same-day delivery services now becoming increasingly common in the US for ...
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Mobile browsing continued to post gains last month at the expense of personal computers, a trend that has put Google into the second spot behind Microsoft as the browser maker with the longest reach, a Web metrics company said Sunday. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, Mobile service
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
Tags: Smartphone Market, Android-iOS
Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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The latest simulator for the upcoming Firefox mobile OS is aimed to please developers planning to sell applications. Firefox Simulator 4.0, released on Thursday, "is a boon for those developers that want to make money using their app in ...
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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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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, ...
Tags: Firefox OS, Smartphones, Mozilla