![]() “We continue to invest in HTML5 products and technologies and support standards bodies like the W3C,” Arno Gourdol, Senior Director, Web Platform & Authoring at Adobe, said in a statement. At the end of 2011, Adobe acquired mobile vendor Nitobi, which is the lead commercial sponsor behind the popular open source PhoneGap mobile development tool. OWD is also being backed by Adobe, which is well known for its Flash technologies, though they also have a position in the open source mobile development space as well. ![]() ![]() The actual phones that Boot to Gecko will power are officially being called Open Web Devices (OWD) by Telefonica. “From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered by current smartphones.” “For the first time the capabilities of HTML5 and the open Web have been fully leveraged to create an entirely new mobile platform,” Carlos Domingo, Director of Product Development & Innovation at Telefónica Digital, said in a statement. Additionally, mobile chip vendor Qualcomm is collaborating in the effort, which is all about opening up the mobile web. Today Mozilla announced that leading service providers, including Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom, are now supporting the Boot to Gecko (B2G) effort. Gecko is the underlying rendering framework behind Firefox. That’s now about to change as Mozilla is ramping up its Boot to Gecko effort, which will enable Mozilla Firefox-powered phones. Since its creation over a decade ago, Mozilla has never had its own complete operating system.
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