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 Firefox parent Mozilla is hard at work shrinking its Web browser software to work on mobile phones. So far, it's available in a very early edition for some Nokia (NOK) gadgets, with the first "alpha" release scheduled for August, DailyTech reports.
Why bother? Because the high end of the mobile browser market, where Mozilla will operate, is poised to explode in the next six years, according to a report published today by ABI Research.
ABI sees "open-Internet" browsers, like Firefox and Opera, soaring to 700 million units delivered worldwide in 2013, 820% more than the 76 million delivered last year. (These "open-Internet" browsers support more sophisticated Web technologies like AJAX, CSS, etc., unlike the crappy browsers available on most mobile phones.)
The upside for companies like Mozilla: If they can get deals
from cellphone makers/carriers to get pre-loaded onto phones, and/or companies like Google (GOOG), which pays them to be the default
search engine on their PC-based browsers, the mobile market could be
very lucrative.
What's driving growth? Cool smartphones like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, which have demonstrated to consumers that they can get a decent Web experience on a small screen if they have a powerful Web browser. The proof: Almost 85% of iPhone owners browse the Web on their phones, versus 13.1% of the overall U.S. mobile market, according to research firm M:Metrics.
A better browser market is also good news for carriers like AT&T (T), Verizon Wireless, and Sprint Nextel (S). The more subscribers that want to use the mobile Web, the better. As consumers spend less money on cellphone calls, the carriers are looking to grow by selling mobile data products, like all-you-can-eat mobile Web access.
See Also:
Apple's iPhone, Smartphones To Kill The Mobile 'Deck'
Firefox Coming To Phones: Good News For Carriers
Apple's iPhone Drives Huge Increase in Mobile Web, Video, Music Usage
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| Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code | | Vietnamese users of the open source Firefox browser may have nasty Trojan horse code inside their browsers, thanks to rogue code that sat inside a Vietnamese language pack for more than two months. Mozilla, the maker of the browser, is now changing how it scans for Trojans and viruses in the add-ons it offers for [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-May-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Mozilla Issues Concept Video for Firefox Mobile | | We need it, we want it, we have to have it. Mozilla’s Head of User Experience Aza Raskin has just posted a video preview and extensive post covering the concept behind of one of Mozilla’s latest endeavors, Firefox Mobile. Let’s cut to the chase… It looks amazing so far. Firefox, the best thing to happen [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Jun-2008 by Zach Epstein in Our Favorite SoftwareFirefoxmobilePreviewSneak PeakVideo
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| AT&T jumps head first into the browser game | 
The browser market is something of a mess these days, with every imagine able company throwing their hat into the ring. The latest to take a stab at making the "perfect" browser is none other than AT&T. Yep, you read correctly. AT&T is making a web browser. Their new creation, currently called Pogo, just launched [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Apr-2008 by Joshua Karp in NewsAT&T
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| Testing ScribeFire | | This is a test post for the Firefox browser plugin ScribeFire. It allows one to post to one’s blog from within Firefox–and to easily include a link to a page you are reading. For example:
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