The Mozilla Marketplace will open for developers to submit Web apps at Mobile World Congress next week and will open to consumers later this year.
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Later this year the company plans to open itself to third-party mobile web developers, to host web apps on its platform.
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For these deals, consumers will make the effort to open up multiple unique web pages or mobile apps.
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The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards.
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The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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While much networked business is conducted over private networks (or encrypted tunnels through public networks), the Internet (including the Web), open WiFi networks and various mobile networks are also commonly used to connect members of business networks.
The competition is open to early-stage ventures from around the world from web to mobile, from double bottom line businesses to connected devices.
An update to the open source Flex framework provides developers with a common framework for building web, desktop and now mobile applications.
The UrtheCast web platform will combine a consumer centric website, mobile application for smart phones, and an open Application Program Interface (API).
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Those who want a more open Web-savvy alternative to the iPhone have had one for a few months in the T-Mobile G1, but those who have wanted a more open alternative to the iPod touch that leverages smartphone development will also have an option this fall in the Android-based Movit mini.
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