Mozilla has announced the availability of the latest version of Firefox for Mobile that features a new updated Native UI that promises a much faster browser for mobile. One of the key reasons the Firefox has had so many add-ons, is that it is extremely customizable; the browser itself is built with the same kind of technologies that most websites are which makes it easy for browser developers to hack on features and UI changes. Just like the web is built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (among other technologies and formats), Firefox is built on XUL, CSS and JavaScript, with the user interface heavily built on the HTML-like XUL. It turns out that this comes at too heavy a cost when it comes to mobile platforms. Mozilla decided to implement an UI that used native platform features...

The hacking community is constantly engaged in pushing hardware farther than it can go. The latest example of their efforts is a “working port of Google’s latest Android 4 “Ice Cream SandwichOS to the Samsung Galaxy Wave S8500.This project clearly shows the strength of community in that this port possible thanks to the effort of many. While this project was undertaken by one person, but built on the effort of many hackers, the developer got funded for purchasing his Wave device through donations from others. Currently the only the Samsung Wave S8500 is supported by this custom Android ROM, however the developer’s secondary target is to port it to the Wave II S8530 as well. Both these phones have been around for quite a while now, and are available at quite a good...

Braving the sweltering Dilli heat of June, around a hundred odd developers gathered at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on June 16-17, 2012 – to code and contribute more effectively towards a social cause. These were a wide variety of people over the age of 15 to about 25. Developers were free to discuss, code and participate using whatever technology they were proficient in, with one condition – it ought to serve one critical aspect of society – education, health, information access, women security and disaster management. Uttam Tripathi, Program Manager, Developer Relations, Google India said during his opening note, there are various Google Developer Group chapters opening across the world. He said, “There were almost 95 countries where such groups were...