In December 2015, Mozilla announced it would be abandoning Firefox OS as a smartphone platform. Many assumed the company's withdrawal would kill any hope of a mobile operating system built around the ...

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Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...

India unveiled a mobile operating system, developed at one of its top engineering colleges, which it claimed was more secure than Alphabet Inc.’s Android and designed to be used in businesses and high ...

It's been a tradition since the first publicly available version of Android, version 1.1 which was codenamed Petit Four, ten years ago. However, as of today, that's all over. Google announced on ...

Two mobile operating systems currently comprise nearly 100% of the global smartphone market. Building one is hard, and for most phone makers, there are better uses of resources, especially when ...

Mystery still surrounds the new operating system being touted by controversial Chinese tech giant Huawei, even as fresh details leak out from state media. The OS, which is codenamed HongMeng and is ...

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Samsung will launch a new mobile operating system in 2010 called Bada. We take a closer look at what to expect and examine the various barriers to success facing an entirely new platform. Joseph ...

ABM and AIBIM urge customers to update browsers and mobile devices to protect against cyber threats and scams.