A Mozilla reference phone, built with Spreadtrum’s processor, that ultimately will hit the market as a $25 device for customers who don’t have the funds for higher-end phones.Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

Andreas Gal, co-founder of Mozilla's mobile OS project, joins others from the project in a startup to link new devices to the Net. It's part of big changes coming to Firefox OS. Mozilla, best known ...

Mozilla confirmed Tuesday that it was halting development on Firefox OS in its current incarnation, putting an end to more than four years of work building a browser-based, smartphone operating system ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mozilla has brought further clarity to the future of Firefox OS on smartphones today, with the news that development will cease after the release of version 2.6 of the operating system. Today's news ...

Mozilla announced today that its two-and-a-half year project to develop a smartphone operating system based on Linux and built using JavaScript and HTML5 will cease development. The organization made ...

Convincing smartphone users to try a different operating system is no easy task as it typically means they have to get a new smartphone that runs it. But Mozilla has gotten around this by making ...