Mozilla is working on a project that could let a few key Android apps like WhatsApp run on its fledgling mobile operating system, which could keep its prospects alive. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

With Firefox OS, Mozilla begins the $25 smartphone push Mozilla has new partnerships to carry its browser-based OS to high-growth, low-cost markets like Indonesia where iOS and Android are vulnerable.

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 ...

I’m watching JavaScript creator Brendan Eich play a video game, and we’re talking about the future of the mobile web. While the native-versus-mobile-web debate has become stale — “boring” in Eich’s ...

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 ...

Barcelona, Spain — Mozilla, creator of the Firefox web browser, has enlisted a quartet of cellphone makers to support the launch later this year of the first smartphones based on Mozilla’s HTML5-based ...

The OS is being pitched as a better alternative for low-end smartphones in developing markets and is built around applications written using HTML5. The first phones using the OS are all powered by ...

Mozilla has unveiled two Developer Preview smartphones that will act as a vanguard ahead of Firefox OS's consumer release later this year. The phones are being developed by Geeksphone -- a Spanish ...

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 ...