Mozilla’s aim of competing with the market leaders was admirable but ultimately Firefox OS didn’t turn out to be a platform capable of rivalling Apple and Google. A lack of apps, limited public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Devices powered by the fledgling Firefox OS make up more than 12 per cent of smartphone sales in Venezuela and almost 9 per cent in Colombia, according to the Telefonica executive leading the operator ...

Mozilla has been focused on getting Firefox OS onto smartphones for the past year, so the next logical step is tablets. Now, Foxconn is stepping in to produce a product for Mozilla, and rumors point ...

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 ...

Mozilla has lifted the lid on the first two devices to run its forthcoming Firefox OS, making them available developer preview handsets or purchase in February. The mobiles named the Keon and the Peak ...

Carriers from around the world have pledged their support for Mozilla's Firefox OS, with some tipping the HTML5-based project to rival Android in key markets. Mozilla claims Firefox OS previously ...

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, ...

Telefónica 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 €69 ($90) with a prepaid subscription. Firefox OS ...