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Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On Wednesday the Mozilla Foundation sent a cease-and-desist letter to British-based Gamma International Ltd., claiming that the latter was passing off its FinFisher spy software as a Firefox product. Mozilla is the maker of the open source-based browser, and called Gamma International’s tactic abusive. “We are sending Gamma, the FinFisher parent company, a cease and desist letter demanding that these practices be stopped...

Dr. Mork is an Orthopedic Spine Surgeon based in Newport Beach, Calif. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Dr Tony Mork, MD, an experienced orthopedic spine surgeon from Newport Beach, Calif., has just announced the creation of a free second opinion service for chiropractors. Chiropractors can contact Dr. Mork either by entering in their name, email and phone number on his new website, DCMDconnect.com, or by calling him at his office to set up a meeting....

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Online safety is a matter of balancing convenience and security. To get more of one, you almost inevitably have to sacrifice a bit of the other. However, Mozilla is working to give its Firefox users the luxury of having both with their new feature called Persona. Web programmers can install the Persona protocol and begin offering this service to Firefox users soon, and Mozilla shipped Persona Beta 2 today along with new Do Not Track...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Last year, Mozilla announced plans to help produce a brand new programming language. Though it closely resembles the larger “C” language, it is meant to create applications and programs which use large boundaries in order to protect the integrity of the program and the system running it. Mozilla is also using this code to power a “Next Generation Web Browser Engine” called Servo. Though the company still claims the language...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On Sunday at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Mozilla proved it was serious about launching a smartphone operating system to take on Apple, Google, Microsoft and BlackBerry. Along with offering a preview of the first commercial build of its Firefox operating system for mobile handsets, the company announced it has the backing of some top carriers including America Movil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Japan's...

Mozilla Revolutionizes Creation and Consumption of Web Content - Firefox Marketplace will offer apps including Cut the Rope, Disney Mobile Games, EA games, Facebook, MTV Brasil, Nokia HERE, SoundCloud and Twitter BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress - Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people's hands, today announced Firefox OS will launch with Firefox Marketplace, and a new ability to discover...

EIGHTEEN MAJOR OPERATORS WELCOMING OPEN WEB DEVICES INITIATIVE; FIRST LAUNCH MARKETS ANNOUNCED BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress -- Mozilla today previewed the first commercial build of its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem and announced new operator rollout plans at a press conference before the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first wave of Firefox OS devices will be available to consumers in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico,...

The new Pak offers a way for Thunderbird IT admins to deliver and lockdown user settings. (PRWEB) January 31, 2013 PolicyPak Software, a leader in Group Policy and desktop management, released an enterprise management solution for Mozilla Thunderbird. The new preconfigured Pak for Thunderbird Pak gives Thunderbird administrators the ability to control and enforce configuration settings within Thunderbirds. Using the Pak, admins can turn off automatic updates, ensure Thunderbird is the...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Mozilla is getting “foxy” as it looks to improve security and reduce crashes on its Firefox browser. Beginning soon Mozilla will in essence unplug most browser plug-ins, and users will have to manually approve any content via a so-called “Click to play” action. Mozilla engineers are looking to disable Java, Adobe Reader and Microsoft Silverlight capabilities in Firefox as a move to improve security and enhance performance....

Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Another open source operating system is on the near horizon. Mozilla, the non-profit organization that produces Firefox, the email client Thunderbird, and a number of other online platforms, is due to release its Firefox OS, an open operating system for mobile devices. The OS and accompanying phones are expected to be released as early as next month, Business Insider reports. Mozilla is offering a Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone in...