Digital Trends – Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, announced it is moving forward with its 2012 mobile strategy. The company wants to offer another option to the Google and Apple-dominated app-industry with the Mozilla Marketplace; the company touts the new app store as: “The first operation system — and device – independent market for apps based on open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.”
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Mozilla mobile unfolding; Marketplace app store opening for developer submissions next week (Digital Trends)
Author: adminFeb 24
How RIM could learn from Ubuntu, and why it needs to before it’s too late (Digital Trends)
Author: adminFeb 22
Digital Trends – Today Ubuntu announced Ubuntu for Android, an app that will sync all your Android apps into a Linux-based interface. The new app is the latest step in the platform’s expanding mobile agenda, part of Ubuntu’s multi-screen agenda. “This isn’t the ‘Ubuntu Phone,” as Canonical’s Mark Shuttlesworth puts it. “The phone experience here is pure Android. This announcement is playing to a different story, which is the convergence of multiple different form factors into one most-personal device.”
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Facebook may open source some of its back-end code this year (Digital Trends)
Author: adminFeb 10
Digital Trends – CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing “the hacker way,” which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future.
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Firefox 10 hits the streets (Digital Trends)
Author: adminFeb 3
Digital Trends – Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there’s one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser’s functionality: by default, most add-ons will be compatible with new versions of Firefox by default, and users will have an easier time managing and (if necessary) updating their add-ons to new versions of the browser.
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Microsoft requiring Secure Boot for ARM devices, hamstringing Linux (Digital Trends)
Author: adminJan 22
Digital Trends – As Windows 8 gets closer to reality, more details of Microsoft’s make-it-or-break-it effort to translate its desktop computing success to ARM-driven tablets are emerging. First, Microsoft revealed that ARM-based Windows 8 devices won”t be able to run legacy Windows software—it’ll be the Metro way, or the highway. Now, Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware certification requirements reveal another restriction: Microsoft plans to require ARM-based Windows 8 devices use UEFI secure booting technology, dubbed Secure Boot. Although the requirement is likely intended to protect consumers from firmware attacks and prevent so-called jailbreaks of ARM-based Windows 8 tablets, it will also make it difficult or impossible for owners to use the hardware with non-Windows operating systems, like Linux.
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