Mozilla might be working on a device that will make ordinary TVs more powerful just like Google’s Chromecast TV streamer.

In a report by GigaOm, a Chromecast-like device was showcased in a hands-on video. Based on the short clip, the device is capable of flinging content from a YouTube app of an Android software. It was also mentioned that support for iOS, Windows Phone and Amazon Fire platform might be provided in the future.

Apparently, the device is going after the same openness as Firefox OS. But other than that, details about the TV streaming dongle is still shrouded in mystery.

On top of that Mozilla has denied any involvement with the project and says that the device might be the work of third party developers who are using the Firefox OS open-source software. Whether or not this is true is something we have to wait and see.

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Recent reports claim that Chinese contract manufacturer Foxconn will soon join the other 18 partners Mozilla has to build its Firefox OS powered smartphones.

The official announcement of the partnership is scheduled to happen on a joint press event on June 3 at Taipei, Taiwan just days before Computex 2013. According to reports, Foxconn Technology Group and Mozilla have already sent invites announcing the press conference and hints of a possible release of one or two Firefox OS devices.

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The partnership is in line with reports that Foxconn is planning to expand beyond contract manufacturing. The company has long been in the business of manufacturing products for other companies including Sony and Apple. However, the recent decrease in iPhone sales due to fierce competition in the smartphone industry may have lead the Chinese company to look for additional opportunities where it can flex its muscles.

Foxconn is reportedly planning a number of business ventures including the selling of its own brand of accessories such as headphones, keyboards and cables. The company is also said to be considering producing its own line of iOS accessories and even its own software.

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Firefox OS has received a lot of support from several international mobile phone manufacturers including Sony, ZTE and Alcatel since its launch at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. But surprisingly enough, the first company to ship a Firefox OS-powered phone in the market is a start-up that goes by the name Geeksphone.

Geeksphone is a Spanish start-up company that was founded in 2009 and specializes in the development, promotion and commercialization of open source mobile phone solutions. Its first product, the Geeksphone One was designed to be a “hacker’s” phone which gives users the ability to fully access the entire operating system and even encouraging users to modify it.

Today, the company has announced that it will start to ship its two Firefox-enabled smartphones – the Keon and the Peak.

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As of the moment, the two phones are now listed as out of stock in Geeksphone’s website just a few hours after they went on sale today. Geeksphone office has confirmed thought that the company is already working on the next batch of phones to meet the demand.

The Geeksphone Keon will retail for $119 while the slightly more powerful Peak sells for $194.

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It seems Google decision to fork WebKit in order to create its own browser rendering engine has paid off as another company has decided to provide support and contribute to the furthering of its latest creation – the Blink rendering engine.

This time it’s Adobe who made the statement that they will be supporting and contributing to Blink. According to the company’s director of engineering for its web platform team Vincent Hardy, the creation of Blink will strengthen an already healthy browser competition and adds that “the web is bigger than any one of its leading browser implementations and too important to be limited by a single code base even if that implementation has variations”.

Adobe has previously collaborated with Google and other companies including Google’s Chromium project and Mozilla on its Gecko engine for the improvement of the web. Adobe also doesn’t seem to be a bit concerned about any fragmentation in the browser ecosystem nor is it worried for a WebKit monoculture even after Opera’s announcement a few weeks ago about adopting WebKit over its own Presto engine.

Instead, Hardy stressed that the web needs to have engines such as Mozilla’s Gecko and IE’s Trident engines to make the web an open and innovative environment. And in continuing the company’s previous efforts, Hardy adds that Adobe will continue to focus on making sure browser engines interoperate and that it offers developers ways to test their site across different browsers.

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