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Firefox for Android Beta 33

Mozilla's efforts to keep mobile Firefox competitive include adding remote streaming-media support to a new build of the browser. The star of Firefox for Android Beta 33 - released Thursday night - is the "send to device" video-streaming feature that enables you to stream videos on your mobile gadget to a TV or another second screen. When you load a site on your mobile device that includes embedded video, an icon will appear in the URL bar letting you know you can begin streaming.

September 8, 2014 Lubov Cholakova

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Google Lets Android Apps Tap into Street View

Street View, Google's eye-level images showing more and more of the real world, is now available for Android software to use. That ability comes with the new Google Play Services 4.4, an update to the company's multipurpose software resource that lets Android app developers tap into a range of Google features. With the change, announced Wednesday night, a restaurant-review app could show street-level views of the restaurants

May 8, 2014 Lubov Cholakova

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Mobile Chrome Apps Closer Than You Think

Running Chrome apps on your smartphone isn't quite the app singularity that people want, where any app runs on any platform. But Google's about to take a big step toward that future in 2014 with Chrome apps for Android and iOS. Google is working getting its Web-based Chrome Apps to run on smartphones and tablets with a new project called Mobile Chrome Apps. Google developer advocate Joe Marini told The Next Web that Google would like to have a beta version ready in January.

December 4, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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KitKat Promises Android for All

Google's newest version of its mobile operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat, doesn't deliver a huge list of transformative design and feature changes, like what we saw when Ice Cream Sandwich was introduced. Instead, KitKat's main purpose is to usher in a strategy from Google to get the latest Android version on all Android devices, both premium and low-end.

November 5, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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First Firefox OS Smartphone Has Arrived

Back in February at the Mobile World Congress trade show a plethora of carriers pledged their support for Mozilla’s HTML-5 open web mobile platform, Firefox OS, which is hoping to shake up the low-end smartphone segment. Today, the launch date of the first commercial Firefox OS phone has been confirmed: the ZTE Open will go on sale tomorrow in Spain, on Telefonica’s Movistar network.

July 1, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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Android duels with Windows 8 on Samsung hybrid

Windows 8 and Jelly Bean make on odd couple. But Windows may be the odder of the two in an increasingly mobile world. Samsung on Thursday announced the Ativ Q laptop-tablet hybrid running both Windows 8 and Android. While it appears to be a Windows 8 laptop first and Android device second, the fact that Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) is only a tap away signals that Samsung believes consumers need a pathway out of Windows to a more mobile-centric world.

June 21, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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Facebook Looking to Partner with Samsung?

During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's whirlwind Asia tour, he stopped by the offices of Samsung this week for a quick meeting with the company's president, Shin Jong Kyun. After the meeting, Shin stopped to talk to reporters and said that the two discussed potential partnerships, according to Bloomberg. The partnerships would reportedly center on advancing mobile-advertising sales.

June 19, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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Foxconn Taking Firefox OS to Tablets, not Just Phones

Foxconn and Mozilla announced a partnership Monday under which the Chinese electronics manufacturer will build not just Firefox phones, as others have announced, but tablets, too. The Chinese electronics manufacturer plans multiple devices, including tablets and phones, as part of a strategy to supply software and services along with hardware.

June 4, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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Asus Transformer Book Trio Runs Win 8 and Android

Asus has announced the Transformer Book Trio, a notebook that can be separated and used as an Android tablet and desktop PC simultaneously. In its notebook form, the 11.6-inch Transformer Book Trio can switch between Windows 8 and Android. Separated, the 1,920 x 1,080-pixel screen portion acts as an Android tablet, running off its 2.0GHz Intel Atom Z2580 processor.

June 3, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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A Tablet Running Firefox OS Coming Soon?

Mozilla and Foxconn have sent around an press event invitation that declares that the two companies will be debuting a new device that runs on a Firefox operating system, according to Focus Taiwan. The event is to take place on June 3. Someone with knowledge of the matter told Focus Taiwan that the new product will most likely be a tablet.

May 28, 2013 Lubov Cholakova

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