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Firefox OS-powered Geeksphone Keon Lands in the Philippines

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Hold your horses before celebrating … Geeksphone Keon units powered by Mozilla Firefox OS are NOT YET available locally. But, I got a package from UPS this afternoon containing the Keon units I promised to those who presented their apps during the Manila leg of Firefox OS App Days last January (awarding of the units will happen on Sunday). GeeksPhone is a Spanish start-up company and producer of smartphones founded in early 2009 by Javier Agüera and Rodrigo Silva-Ramos. They… Read the rest
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Tagalog Firefox Translation Marathon 1Q2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Mozillian Localizers for the Tagalog Firefox Project gathered earlier today (a non-working holiday all throughout the country in celebration of National Day of Valor) at the Highlands Coffee, Alphaland Southgate Tower Mall in Makati City to have a Translation Marathon. There was around 16 Mozillian Localizers present to the event. Not a bad turnout for a holiday. And even the weather was somewhat cooperating … The Localization effort to Tagalog is already 42% complete prior to the event today. We… Read the rest
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AMA Computer University Biñan IT Week 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Our friends from the Philippine Information Technology Organization (Phil-IT.org) invited Team MozillaPH to be part of the AMA Computer University (Biñan Campus) IT Week 2013 today. I, being a proud AMAnian (Parañaque Campus), led the MozillaPH delegation composed of our Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr.; Student Reps Lead Kemuel Joseph Domanog; and Student Reps Kenneth Sungcaya & Ryan Ermita from Colegio de San Juan De Letran (Calamba), Sheila Revilla from Pamantasan ng Cabuyao (PNC), Joshua Rubin from Pamantasan ng… Read the rest
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Happy 15th Birthday to Mozilla!!!

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Fifteen (15) years ago, I was still busy with school (college) stuff. It was during that time when Intel Pentium II was still the fastest processor a desktop PC can ever have (locally, at least). Our internet connection at my dad’s home-office was still at 33.6kbps (upgraded to 56kbps months later) via dial-up. When net connection at home is sluggish, I will go to Internet Universe at Park Square 1 to surf the internet using Netscape browser (costing me PHP1.50… Read the rest
Firefox News

Introducing the New Alab (MozillaPH Mascot)

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Nearly two (02) years ago, the Mozilla Philippines Community launched “Alab” as our official mascot during the release party for Mozilla Firefox 4 in Manila. “Alab” is the Tagalog term for “Flare“, which can simply be translated to “Blaze Up!” A meeting of minds (via email) between the Mozilla Philippines Community (represented by Reps Mentors Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. & Robert “Bob” Reyes) and the creator of Alab happened a few weeks ago (followed by a face-to-face meetup) with the… Read the rest
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MozillaPH Supports JFFC 2013

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Mozilla Philippines Community supports the 2013 edition of the Junior Form Function & Class, the only Student Design Conference in the country.   Kudos to the organizers. See you all in JFFC 2014 — but before that, there will be FFC 2013, right? Here are some of the photos taken during the sessions of Mozilla Reps Allan Caeg and Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. last Saturday (at the De La Salle – College of St. Benilde School of Design &… Read the rest