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Mozilla says it has the support of a number of carriers and smartphone manufacturers to start shipping phones running on Firefox’s new mobile operating system. Sprint in the United States is a backer as well as Deutsche Telekom and hardware vendors ZTE and TCL Communication Technology. Mozilla hopes to have the first Firefox-based handsets shipping by…
Google is launching apps for one of its most popular services along with one of its newest services today for iPhone and iPad: the Chrome web browser and Drive. Kudos to Google for doing a fantastic job maintaining the look and feel of Chrome for the desktop with Chrome for iOS — it looks nearly…
Placecast unveiled an interesting solution to mobile payments today called ShopAlerts Wallet. It’s an HTML5 mobile web app that consumers can use to find local offers from various brands, plus process payments and store credit cards, tickets, and other payment information. ShopAlerts Wallet isn’t a direct app that users can navigate too. Instead, Placecast makes…
FixYa is a common online Q&A destination for finding a solution to a problem you might be having with just about any gadget: phones, cameras, computers, cars, appliances, etc. Now it’s wisely launching an HTML5-based mobile web app so if you have a quick issue while you’re out, you can quickly load up FixYa to…
Opera is expanding its browser onto more platforms, but this time it’s going outside of the typical smartphone boundary. The company is releasing the Opera Mini 7 browser for feature phones with a flagship feature it calls Smart Page. With Opera Mini 7 for feature phones, it appears Opera is targeting the people who are…
In March, Spaceport.io released part one of its study of HTML5 performance on iOS and Android and concluded that iOS smokes the competition in this regard. Today, it released part two, which compares HTML5 performance on mobile devices to the desktop web. Spaceport.io found that on average, the very best smartphones run HTML5 content 8x…
Mobile Roadie, the web-based service that allows users to easily make iPhone and Android apps, is expanding to additional platforms – iPad and mobile web. The iPad app platform comes with a number of features, including live navigation widgets that turn the main menu into a dynamic feed of streaming content; hi-res graphics layers, parallax…
Blackline TV is doing something pretty unique for a podcast: it’s launching its own iPad magazine. Even more bold, it’s not trapped in the App Store or Newsstand under Apple’s developer terms and conditions. No, instead it’s living freely on the open web as an HTML5 magazine. Blackline is a podcast that specializes in delivering…
As a web browser, Opera gets its bacon cooked when its stacked up against anything like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but as a mobile browser, Opera fairs well against heavyweights: Apple and Google. Sparingly, Opera is ahead depending on certain statistics (that favors them). Well, according to a new Opera white paper, in which…
Mobile video service Vuclip surveyed 560,000 men and women about their mobile phone buying habits. Besides asking the big questions like when they plan to buy their next phone, Vuclip also asked respondents what details they look for when they shop for a phone. When broken down by gender, the results from this latter question were surprising. Contrary…