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A coalition of Internet and civil liberties groups launched a campaign Tuesday protesting the huge US online surveillance program revealed in the past week. http://phys.org/news290186220.html Technology Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:40:01 EST news290186220 Taiwan's tech giant Hon Hai Precision Monday announced plans to develop devices and software using Mozilla's Firefox operating system, in an attempt to diversify its existing manufacturing services. http://phys.org/news289468656.html Technology Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:57:42 EST news289468656 A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector's giants. http://phys.org/news288273122.html Electronics Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:19 EST news288273122 Fed up with Twitter friends ruining the plots of her favorite TV shows, high school senior and budding software engineer Jennie Lamere took matters into her own hands. http://phys.org/news287336588.html Technology Thu, 09 May 2013 17:00:02 EST news287336588 (Phys.org) —Mozilla and Los Angeles-based graphics software company OTOY have announced ORBX.js, a downloadable HD codec written in JavaScript and WebGL, that will let major browsers such as Firefox, IE10, Chrome, Safari, and Opera run video and rendering apps like Autodesk without the need for plug-ins. Is there a day to come when end users can access high definition content that is format-agnostic? In tech jargon, it is tempting for company promoters to exaggerate an announcement as "game-changing," but the May 3 news on the codec could be a game changer in a number of ways. PRBX.js will deliver movies and "cloud" gaming in a browser window using web standard-based technologies. It lets developers stream desktop apps for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X on to any browser including mobile browsers. As important, there will be no need for plug-ins such as Flash, Silverlight, or QuickTime for running videos in the browser. http://phys.org/news287062684.html Technology Mon, 06 May 2013 13:20:01 EST news287062684 The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best-known purveyors of surveillance software, accusing a British company of hijacking the Mozilla brand to camouflage its espionage products. http://phys.org/news286614353.html Technology Wed, 01 May 2013 08:06:10 EST news286614353 A handful of new smartphone platforms are expected to become available this year, challenging the stranglehold of the two market leaders, Google's Android and Apple's iOS. http://phys.org/news283316945.html Technology Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:09:17 EST news283316945 Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox Web browser, is getting into phones. But it's not stopping at Web browsers—it's launching an entire phone operating system. http://phys.org/news280940112.html Electronics Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:10:01 EST news280940112 (Phys.org)—Mozilla this week took an important step to strengthening and in some cases restoring confidence in Firefox as a class-act browser. The community issued an announcement by Mozilla's Michael Coates, director of security assurance, about Mozilla's latest move to avert plugin plagues. "Mozilla has decided that it's time to take things to the next level by disabling as many automatic plug-in activations as possible," he said, in a January 29 post. http://phys.org/news278790443.html Technology Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:10:01 EST news278790443 The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday unveiled two preview smartphones as it invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system challenging Apple's iOS and Google's Android. http://phys.org/news278072949.html Technology Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:29:23 EST news278072949 (Phys.org)—Mozilla is inviting developers to play around with its experimental Firefox OS Simulator. The Firefox OS Simulator is a Firefox add-on for web developers who would be interested in building apps for Mozilla's coming mobile Firefox operating system. The simulator will make it easier for developers to stay current with future updates to Firefox OS. Mozilla has talked for a while about a mobile operating system of its own, Firefox OS, and in July this year boasted of growing global industry support behind such an idea of a fully open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5. The advantage was seen by the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor who were backing the open Firefox OS as an "exciting new entrant" to the smartphone marketplace. http://phys.org/news272778524.html Technology Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:50:01 EST news272778524 (AP)—Billionaire Barry Diller's Aereo is broadening availability of its service even as broadcasters challenge the legality of the startup's live television transmissions over the Internet. http://phys.org/news269694596.html Technology Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:10:03 EST news269694596 Guatemala's Kakchiquel speakers will now be able to access Facebook in their own language thanks to a new application developed by US software engineers. http://phys.org/news263366339.html Technology Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:19:05 EST news263366339 An adjustment of a mere second in the official global clock sent dozens of websites crashing in an incident reminiscent of the Y2K bug over a decade ago. http://phys.org/news260454636.html Technology Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:31:09 EST news260454636 Twitter on Thursday took a stand for online privacy by backing a Firefox web browsing feature that lets people signal that they don't want their Internet activity tracked. http://phys.org/news256481595.html Technology Thu, 17 May 2012 14:10:01 EST news256481595 Mozilla, which brought the free web browser Firefox to the masses, now wants to do the same for mobile users, with a new open source operating system that could drastically slash smartphone prices. http://phys.org/news249646423.html Technology Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:13:52 EST news249646423 The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone. http://phys.org/news246119906.html Technology Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:38:35 EST news246119906 Google's browser Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time globally on a monthly basis in November, according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 25.69% of the worldwide market (up from 4.66% in November 2009) compared to Firefox's 25.23%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%. http://phys.org/news241963283.html Technology Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:01:48 EST news241963283 (AP) -- It isn't a pretty picture at Yahoo Inc. right now, but that's not stopping the beleaguered Internet company from touching up its popular photo-sharing service, Flickr. http://phys.org/news236446366.html Technology Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:32:52 EST news236446366 (PhysOrg.com) -- You may recall our earlier reporting on the Mozilla's pdf.js project, in which the folks over at Mozilla are trying to get their browser to display PDF files in your Firefox web browser with the help of HTML5. http://phys.org/news229183855.html Technology Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:11:19 EST news229183855 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the current generation of web browsers if you want to view a PDF in your web browser you are going to need the help of a plug-in to do it. While that may not sound like a major roadblock a growing number of users have expressed concerns over the security of using third party plug-ins on their systems, since they can also potentially be used to run malicious code. http://phys.org/news227539170.html Technology Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:22:57 EST news227539170 (PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of Firefox 5, a popular cross-platform web browser, now has release versions ready for both the desktop and the mobile browser user groups. The beta does not have many noticeable differences from the current version of the browser, Firefox 4, aside from the introduction of the channel changer feature and the move of Do Not Track to users privacy settings. http://phys.org/news225386400.html Technology Mon, 23 May 2011 16:20:33 EST news225386400 Internet giant Google could launch an online music service as early as Tuesday to rival Amazon's "cloud" service, which allows users to store digital music online, the Wall Street Journal reported. http://phys.org/news224220095.html Technology Tue, 10 May 2011 04:22:08 EST news224220095 There is no computer program used as often as a Web browser. Yet too many users never give the browser any thought, spending years with the default program installed on a once-new computer. http://phys.org/news221406374.html Technology Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:00:01 EST news221406374 A fast, sleek new version of Firefox was released on Wednesday to vie Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Google Chrome in the fiercely competitive market for Web browsing software. http://phys.org/news220031604.html Technology Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:53:49 EST news220031604 Google on Tuesday began letting people sidestep unwanted websites by eliminating them from Internet search results. http://phys.org/news219001788.html Technology Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:50:00 EST news219001788 A global art collective on Tuesday released an antidote for online Charlie Sheen overload -- software that edits the headline-grabbing celebrity out of Web pages. http://phys.org/news218863496.html Technology Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:25:12 EST news218863496 Mozilla and Google on Monday took steps toward giving people more online privacy but each said hurdles remain to creating simple "Do Not Track" buttons for Web browsing software. http://phys.org/news215095561.html Technology Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:00:02 EST news215095561 Millions of people have downloaded Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) since Microsoft released the test version of its next-generation Web browser a week ago. http://phys.org/news204392833.html Technology Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:48:11 EST news204392833 (PhysOrg.com) -- After the release of Safari 5 last month, Thursday, July 28th, Apple introduced a smoother, more efficient version, deeming it Safari 5.0.1. http://phys.org/news199639337.html Technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:22:30 EST news199639337