Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser and Firefox mobile OS, has appointed Chris Beard as CEO.
He’d been the company’s interim CEO since April after Brendan Eich stepped down.
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Microsoft has taken legal action against Samsung in the USA.
The two companies signed a cross-licence patent agreement almost three years ago that involved Microsoft receiving royalties for Samsung devices running the Android mobile platform.
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BlackBerry has announced a deal with Microsoft to bring the BBM BlackBerry Messenger application to Windows Phone 8.
The new Windows Phone BBM app will offer features including BBM Chats, BBM Feeds and group messaging.
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A new quarterly report from ABI Research show that shipments of ‘forked’ Android smartphones - those that use the Android Open Source Project rather than Google’s own version of Android - accounted for 20% of the smartphone market in Q2 2014.
Shipments of AOSP smartphones increased by 20% from the previous quarter, while the total market grew by just 3%.
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Resurfacing repairs required? There's an app...
Mark Bridge writes:
In the past five years, what started as an advertising message - “there’s an app for that” - has become a challenge to developers. It’s become part of 21st century culture. And it’s become an totem for journalists to pin their most outrageous app-based stories to.
Roadroid doesn’t need the attention-grabbing headlines.
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