As Microsoft’s Windows Phone flails and BlackBerry 10 sputters, the smartphone market seems increasingly a two-horse town: Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. But the open source world is hoping to ...

With asm.js and WebGL technologies, Mozilla's browser-based mobile OS will soon get games like Where's My Water. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Mozilla is working on a project that could let a few key Android apps like WhatsApp run on its fledgling mobile operating system, which could keep its prospects alive. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Firefox is a free and open source web browser—the largest one that isn't tied to a corporation. Yet there was a briefly a time when Firefox was also a smartphone operating system. Firefox OS ...

An earlier Linux-based open-source operating system from the Mozilla project. Firefox OS ran HTML5-based Web applications and came with a set of default apps that were part of its Gaia user interface.

Mozilla has unveiled two Developer Preview smartphones that will act as a vanguard ahead of Firefox OS's consumer release later this year. The phones are being developed by Geeksphone -- a Spanish ...

The Mozilla Foundation (in partnership with GeeksPhone) has just revealed that the first “Developer Preview” phones will be shipping with the new, Open Source, “Firefox OS” very, very shortly – ...

Mozilla has announced that the number of countries where its Firefox OS devices are available to buy is set to increase in the near future thanks to pledges from Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom to ...

Mozilla announced its upcoming mobile operating system will carry the Firefox brand and launch in Brazil early next year, with a Sprint release heading to the U.S. some time after. Firefox OS will be ...