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| December 10, 2015

Mozilla has pulled the plug on the mobile Firefox OS, which spells an end for Firefox smartphones, with focus now on the connected homes platform. Mozilla revealed at the company’s developer conference in Orlando that the Firefox OS will finally meet its demise. Mozilla will not develop the Firefox OS for smartphones anymore, and will not sell the now-defunct Firefox mobile OS operating system to carriers. According to Firefox, the company wants to focus on other platforms such as t...

| December 16, 2015

Internet of Things fever is taking over and Mozilla is jumping the bandwagon and in the process has decided to put an end of Firefox OS powered mobiles. A move that will not really make a huge difference in the smartphone spectrum, Mozilla’s decision is something that wasn’t entirely unexpected considering that the non-profit organization didn’t have a lot going on for itself in the smartphones world. Mozilla says that while smartphone revolution was big, the Inte...

| December 16, 2015

Despite support from the telco sector, open source software community Mozilla has failed to make an impact on the smartphone OS sector with its Firefox open mobile browser technology and has decided instead to focus its Firefox efforts on the IoT sector. Mozilla's aim was to develop affordable, open source-based mobile devices that could help spread Internet connectivity in developing markets and it gained support from a number of telcos, particularly Telefónica , and handset m...

Mozilla | December 26, 2015

After announcing its exit from the smartphone business, Mozilla's Firefox OS operating system is not as dead as initially thought, and documents leaked by Spanish blog Hipertextual show how the Foundation is planning to go about deploying Firefox OS in IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The documents are early product concepts created by Mozilla designers, and the Foundation has declined to confirm if they are currently in production or early prototypes. The Firefox OS Pad...