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 announced today that its two-and-a-half year project to develop a smartphone operating system based on Linux and built using JavaScript and HTML5 will cease development. The organization made ...

Mozilla has announced the global expansion of Firefox OS, with various major players getting on board with the open mobile operating system, including O2 owner Telefónica. At the Mobile World Congress ...

Back in 2013, when the iPhone and Android had cornered the smartphone market, a plucky new mobile operating system showed up that promised to bring a new kind of smartphone. One that was entirely ...

Introduced in January 2013, Firefox OS is a new mobile, Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones from Mozilla, a free software community also known as the creators of the Firefox Web ...

Figure 1. Mozilla's Firefox OS is designed for mobile platforms like smartphones providing functionalitysimilar to Android and iOS. The front facing browser interface makes it easier to customize. In ...

Mozilla has ended its ambitious entry into the smartphone race, saying Tuesday it will stop offering Firefox OS phones through operators. The withdrawal is unsurprising, even though Mozilla heralded ...

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla’s Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system ...

As an idealistic thought experiment, the truly open Firefox OS (formerly Boot 2 Gecko) is captivating -- but in reality, as it prepares to enter one of the world's most fiercely competitive markets, ...