Freedom to tinker is the missing feature in tablets and smartphones
I had a really good conversation earlier today with a reporter. We were discussing the tablet craze and how tablets (and smartphones) could replace computers. I agreed that in a growing number of...
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Securing Firefox and the other browsers too
All of the readers of this blog depend increasingly on the Internet for many aspects of our lives; this is why the security of Mozilla products and services is extremely important, as stated in the...
View ArticleUnprecedented Commercial Freedom
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the dangers of closed marketplaces when it comes to selling smartphone apps. One can ask what are the alternatives, and how they’re better than monopolistic marketplaces....
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Teaching the next generation not to be passive consumers
I recently had to give a talk at a conference about digital natives, so I went for a walk down memory lane to remember what where my favorite computers back when I was a kid. At the time, the Apple II...
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Firefox OS App days around the world
As you may know by now, Mozilla has been working on Firefox OS, a new, open and powerful mobile platform that will launch in 2013. At Mozilla, we believe that smartphone platforms should be open...
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Education and great products
I was invited earlier this week to a round table about Net Neutrality organized by the French government. During the conversation, someone pointed out that Net Neutrality is pointless if mobile...
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Getting ready for FirefoxOS AppDays
In two or three days, in Paris and in 23 other cities in the world, the FirefoxOS AppDays will be held. Last week, my colleagues celebrated an important milestone in the development of FirefoxOS....
View ArticleWhat if the browser disappeared?
I was reading the other day a provocative article titled The end of the browser?. This article basically argues that with the world using more and more mobile devices, mobile applications are replacing...
View ArticleOne less browser engine
It’s a sad day for the Web. Opera Software has announced the following: this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of...
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Mozilla’s DNA and Mobile World Congress
I’m just back from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Mozilla announced partnerships with 18 operators and 4 device manufacturers, who will launch devices to become available in 2013 in...
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Firefox OS: We Don’t Want To Be The Third Platform
Firefox OS smartphone by ZTE, sold in Spain Firefox OS was released earlier this week in Spain, and will be released next week in Poland. It’s a very important moment in Mozilla’s history. The launch...
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Happy birthday, World Wide Web!
On August 6th 1991, 22 years ago today, the Web was born. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, its inventor, described it on the alt.hypertext newsgroup like this: The WWW project merges the techniques of information...
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25 years of love for the Web
Tim Berners-Lee (right) and the author I have to admit I’ve always been a fan of Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the Web, hence the embarrassing fan boy picture above. But I’m even more of a fan now....
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