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Mozilla Launching Cross-Platform App Store Later This Year, Submissions Open Next Week

Chris Velazco

Calling all developers: if you know your way around HTML5 and JavaSrcipt and have a great idea for an app, Mozilla wants to hear from you. The web-friendly nonprofit has just announced their intention to launch a new cross-platform app market later this year, and the submission process is slated to start next week at Mobile World Congress.

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22 Feb 2012

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Brow.si Is An Add-On And Platform That Wants To Put The Engagement Fight Back Into The Mobile Web

techcrunch.com Steve O'Hear 1 days ago

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Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta today as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a number of features to rival the engagement of native apps. These include social sharing, a read it later button, subscriptions, and push notifications (sort of). Developers can also create additional extensions for the Brow.si platform to add further desktop web/app-like functionality and monetization options.Read similar

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Mozilla Unveils The Firefox OS For Mobiles At Mobile World Congress

www.iphoneincanada.ca Usman 86 days ago

Mozilla has finally debuted its much hyped Firefox OS for mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. The web-based open source platform where all the features and apps are created using the HTML5 web standard, will power the world’s first Open Web Devices in partnership with 18 carriers around the world later this year. With Firefox OS, Mozilla...Mozilla Unveils The Firefox OS For Mobiles At Mobile World Congress is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Read similar

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In A Play For More HTML5 Muscle, Intel Buys appMobi’s HTML5 Developer Tools, Leaving appMobi To Focus On The Cloud

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 90 days ago

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Intel will not be left out of the party when it comes to being central in the mobile app ecosystem. The company today acquired a set of HTML5 development tools, originally created by appMobi and used by some 150,000 developers, and has hired staff from appMobi that worked on the product to continue to maintain it. appMobi, meanwhile, is going to forge ahead as a standalone company, focused on the remaining part of its business as a provider of cloud services for mobile applications. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition was first made public by appMobi in a letter sen... Read similar

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Corona Labs Debuts Corona Cloud, A Customizable All-In-One Cross-Platform Mobile Gaming Network

techcrunch.com Darrell Etherington 63 days ago

Corona Labs is publicly launching Corona Cloud today, a cross-platform social gaming network that brings multiplayer support, leaderboards and achievements, chat and push notifications to a mobile gaming app through a single RESTful API. For developers, it means an easy way to add social features to their game that, unlike Game Center, can connect players outside of platform-specific communities.Read similar

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Tribeca Film Festival Narrows Down #6SecFilms Submissions To A Short List Of 40 Awesome Vines

techcrunch.com Jordan Crook 34 days ago

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Less than a month ago, Tribeca Film Festival opened up a sub-competition within the festival for those of us with a knack for brevity: the Tribeca Film Festival's #6SecFilms competition. Partnering with Twitter's new darling and video-sharing app Vine, TFF made a call for submissions from filmmakers who'd like to use the Vine platform to be featured on TribecaFilm.com, along with a nice cash prize of $600.Today, TFF has narrowed down its submissions to a short list of 40 total submissions from all four different potential categories, including Series, Auteur, Animate, or Genre. Finalist submis... Read similar

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Mozilla And Epic Games Bring Unreal Engine 3 To The Web, No Plugin Needed

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 56 days ago

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Back in 2011, Epic ported its popular Unreal Engine 3 technology to Flash and showed how relatively high-end 3D games could run in the browser. It’s 2013 now, however, and Flash isn’t exactly a hot topic anymore. So to show off what game developers can do with a modern browser and without plugins today, Mozilla and Epic teamed up a little while ago to port Unreal Engine 3 to the web, something that was unthinkable back in 2011. As Vladimir Vukicevic, Mozilla’s engineering director and the inventor of WebGL told me earlier this week, Mozilla wants to make the web a viable plat... Read similar

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Cisimple Exits Beta, Makes Mobile App Building, Testing & Deployment…Well, Simple

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 43 days ago

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Cisimple a startup that helps automate the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications, is today exiting its beta and making its new testing platform available to all developers. The company is also the first to integrate with Kickfolio's API, another newly launched startup which brings iOS applications to the browser using HTML5.Read similar

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TokBox’s WebRTC-Based Video Chat Platform Now Supports Firefox Nightly And Aurora

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 86 days ago

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TokBox, the live video-chat platform that was acquired by Spain’s Telefónica in 2012, was one of the first companies to fully bet on WebRTC (the Web Real-Time Communication API), the quickly developing standard for plugin-free, in-browser video, audio and text chat. After launching its Chrome integration earlier this year, TokBox today debuted its support for Mozilla’s Firefox, starting with the bleeding-edge Aurora and Nightly editions of the popular browser. Now that TokBox supports Firefox, developers using its WebRTC-based OpenTok platform can write video-enabled apps that allo... Read similar

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Mozilla Launches Beta 2 Of Its Persona Authentication System, Now Works With Firefox OS And All Yahoo.com Email Addresses

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 43 days ago

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Mozilla today launched the second beta of its Persona authentication system, which now allows anybody with a Yahoo.com email address to sign up and log in to any Persona-enabled site without the need to create a new account for Persona or a new login or password for the site that uses it. Mozilla plans to add support for additional webmail providers in the coming month. With Persona, Mozilla wants to get rid of as many site-specific online passwords as possible. The goal of Persona is to ensure that users can sign in to websites without having to set up a new user account and without having to... Read similar

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Bango To Power Payments In Mozilla’s Firefox OS App Store, Offering Carrier Billing By Default

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 84 days ago

Earlier this week, Mozilla made a splash at the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the official launch of the first phones to be made on its new Firefox OS smartphone platform, and the names of 18 carriers and several handset makers that were getting behind the business. Now more details are emerging about other partners in the process: among them, it looks like Mozilla has signed Bango to enable mobile payments on the devices. Bango is the carrier billing specialist that works with the likes of Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry, Opera to provide such services for these company's ... Read similar

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Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 85 days ago

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According to a new survey commissioned by Telerik’s Kendo UI, the majority of developers now prefer to work with HTML5 instead of native apps for their cross-platform development. Half of the 5,000 developers surveyed in the company’s 2013 Global Developer Survey also said that they developed apps using HTML5 in 2012 and 90% of them plan to do so in 2013. Only 15% of developers said they would prefer to use a native-only approach. The idea behind the survey, Kendo UI’s VP of the company’s HTML5 web and mobile division Todd Anglin told me last week, was to understand how... Read similar

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Mobile Gaming Backend OpenKit Now Available To All Developers

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 11 days ago

OpenKit, an open-source social platform for mobile games, is now open to all developers, according to co-founder Peter Relan. The service, first announced in December, has been in private beta since earlier this year. There are apparently 1,500 developers already testing the service.Relan previously told me that he started OpenKit in response to the shutdown of OpenFeint, the GREE-acquired social platform for mobile games that he co-founded. Developers still need something like this, Relan said, and he wants to build it in a way that's both "good business and developer friendly."Read similar

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Mozilla And Samsung Collaborate On Servo, Mozilla's Next-Gen Browser Engine For Tomorrow's Multicore Processors

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 49 days ago

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At first glance, this looks like an odd partnership: Mozilla just announced that it has recently begun collaborating with Samsung on Servo, its next generation browser engine. Mozilla Research started working on Servo as a research project in 2012. The new browser engine, which is still far away from being available in any commercial project, is written in Rust, a relatively new programming language that is also being developed by Mozilla Research. Together, Mozilla and Samsung are bringing both Rust and Servo to Android and the ARM architecture. Samsung, a company spokesperson said, is intere... Read similar

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Firefox OS To Make Hardware Debut With Keon And Peak Developer Preview Smartphones

techcrunch.com Darrell Etherington 120 days ago

Mozilla's Firefox OS, the mobile operating system from the company that makes the Firefox browser build entirely on open web standards, will have its first hardware soon thanks to a developer preview smartphone device, created by Spanish open hardware phone platform manufacturer Geeksphone, in partnership with Telefonica. Two models, the Peak and the Keon, will offer developers different hardware profiles to develop for, covering both higher-end and more affordable devices.Read similar

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Gizmox Raises $7.5M, Appoints New CEO To Help Enterprises Port IT Apps To Mobile Via HTML5

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 30 days ago

When it comes to consumer apps, the debate over HTML5 vs. native has seen native win a couple of key rounds recently, with a number of high-profile tech companies eschewing the open standard because of performance issues. However, when it comes to enteprise services, it looks like we may hear a different tune. Gizmox, which operates a platform that helps enterprises create new and translate existing IT services into mobile apps using HTML5, today is announcing that it has raised another $7.5 million and appointed a new CEO, Eugene Kuznetsov, to capitalize on what it sees as a growing market fo... Read similar

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Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace For Apps; 18 Carriers In All Signed Up For Mozilla’s Open Web Effort

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 87 days ago

Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become a viable third player in the smartphone landscape currently dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Mozilla is announcing that 18 carriers have now committed to its Open Web HTML5 device push; the launch of the Firefox Marketplace app store to aggregate content for the platform; and some of the first low-cost handsets coming out of its carrier partnerships that will be coming out this summer.Read similar

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Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 87 days ago

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What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers’ WebRTC implementations could interoperate. Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla is going a step further. The organization has teamed up with AT&T and Ericsson to show a proof-of-concept called WebPhone that demonstrates how its Firefox browser can use Mozilla’s Social API, AT&T’s API Platform and Ericsson’s Web Communication Gateway to let Firefox users sync with a user’s existing pho... Read similar

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Mobile App Builder TapCanvas Exits Beta, Partners With Eventbrite To Make Event App Creation Easier

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 98 days ago

programming knowledge

TapCanvas, a startup that helps people build mobile applications without programming knowledge, is exiting beta today and announcing a partnership with Eventbrite for the creation of event apps. Although there are a ton of DIY mobile app builders out there (for example, here's a spreadsheet from a while back listing over 50), TapCanvas is different because its focus is primarily on building disposable, context-specific applications using web technologies like HTML5, not building apps for submission into the leading platforms' app stores.Read similar

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Cydia, The Alternative App Store For Jailbroken Apple Devices, Now Runs On Android

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 8 days ago

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android of all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and customizable than Apple's locked-down iOS, it now has a growing collection of apps designed for power users who root their devices - a process that's similar in spirit to the iOS jailbreak. Cydia for Android could soon become home to some of those same tweaks in time - or at least allow developers to port them to the Android ecosystem, whether or not they're housed in Cydia directly.Read similar

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With A Widespread Launch Looming, Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

techcrunch.com Chris Velazco 20 days ago

Mozilla was keen to talk up the 3.0 version of its Firefox OS simulator back in March, but didn’t have much to share about when eager developers could start fiddling with it. Thankfully for HTML5 buffs, that six-week quiet period is over — the team just announced on the official Mozilla Hacks blog that the newly updated simulator is now available to download.Read similar

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