Month: February 2013

News

Sony Mobile Plans to Release Firefox OS Devices by 2014

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Sony Mobile announced at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain that their engineers are currently working with Firefox OS and is targeting 2014 for the launch of these devices. Here is Sony Mobile’s Press Release: Sony Mobile and Telefónica reinforce partnership with multi-year commercial and technical collaboration Telefonica to range Sony Mobile’s 2013 Xperia portfolio including Xperia™ Z and Xperia™ Tablet Z Telefónica establishes technical partnership with Sony Mobile to leverage opportunities with the new Firefox OS open… Read the rest
Events News

Unleashing The Fox at MWC 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Mozilla is at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain as it fulfills the promise of delivering the Open Web Devices powered by Firefox OS. Today, we are “unleashing the Fox” – our ambassador for Firefox OS. The Fox, like Firefox OS, is fun and friendly, supportive and protective, and fast and powerful. Blazingly fast, the Fox doesn’t play by the rules. It is everywhere you need it to be—a force for good that powers your mobile world, ignites your… Read the rest
Events

MozillaPH Joins FEU-Makati’s IT Week 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Business Information Technology Society (BITS) of Far Eastern University (FEU) Makati Campus invited me to be one of their resource speakers during the celebration of their IT Week 2013 last 15 Feb 2013. It was my very first time to set foot inside the FEU-Makati Campus (at what most people know as the Zuellig Loop). There were more or less a hundred students in attendance during the time I delivered my Mozilla Overview and the New Web Challenge talk.… Read the rest
Events

MozillaPH Supports JFFC 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Mozilla Philippines Community supports the 2013 edition of the Junior Form Function & Class, the only Student Design Conference in the country.   Kudos to the organizers. See you all in JFFC 2014 — but before that, there will be FFC 2013, right? Here are some of the photos taken during the sessions of Mozilla Reps Allan Caeg and Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. last Saturday (at the De La Salle – College of St. Benilde School of Design &… Read the rest
Events Firefox Mozilla Reps

Global Reciprocal Colleges IT Week 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Earlier today, Team Mozilla Philippines Community participated in the Global Reciprocal Colleges (GRC) IT Week 2013 celebration at their campus in Caloocan City. It is best to note that most of the GRC students are scholars. The event was organized by our Phil-IT.org friends. The event started with a series of plenary talks from different organizations and vendors. I represented the Mozilla Philippines Community with The New Web Challenge & Firefox OS talk. Together with the support of our very… Read the rest
Firefox News Web Standards

Firefox WebRTC & Chrome WebRTC Interoperability

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Mozilla had just announced a major milestone in WebRTC development called WebRTC RTCPeerConnection interoperability between Firefox and Google Chrome. It was announced at this blog post and there was even a YouTube video produced to show proof of someone from Mozilla calling Google. For non-geeks, what is WebRTC? Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is an API definition being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and P2P file sharing without plugins.… Read the rest