New Orleans - The growth of cellphones as portable game players, Internet radios and digital wallets was a key topic at CTIA's second-day keynote session, where a Mozilla executive also forecast that open HTML5-based web applications will challenge "curated" app stores.
"Will one or two companies be able to curate the interests of five to six billion people around the world?" asked Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.
By 2016, he said, more than 2 billion mobile devices will sport fully compliant HTML5 browsers, and app developers would prefer to write an app once that will work across so many devices.
That capability is being developed as part of the company's Boot to Gecko (B2G) OS, which Mozilla is creating as a "standalone operating system for the web," the company's website shows. "Ideally, the technology pioneered or refined in B2G will make its way into all mobile browsers so that enhanced open web applications can be great regardless of operating system or device," the website adds. MORE...
SOURCE:http://www.twice.com
"Will one or two companies be able to curate the interests of five to six billion people around the world?" asked Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.
By 2016, he said, more than 2 billion mobile devices will sport fully compliant HTML5 browsers, and app developers would prefer to write an app once that will work across so many devices.
That capability is being developed as part of the company's Boot to Gecko (B2G) OS, which Mozilla is creating as a "standalone operating system for the web," the company's website shows. "Ideally, the technology pioneered or refined in B2G will make its way into all mobile browsers so that enhanced open web applications can be great regardless of operating system or device," the website adds. MORE...
SOURCE:http://www.twice.com
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