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Campus DevCon at UST

Robert "Bob" Reyes
The Mozilla Philippines Community is one of the proud sponsors for the Campus DevCon held at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) earlier today. I represented the community and gave my talk on stuff Mozilla Philippines Community is doing, different Mozilla products, and of course: Firefox OS. I also gave away a couple of Firefox shirts to attendees who were able to answer my trivia questions … … and another shirt …… Read the rest
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Geeksphone Keon for Firefox OS App Days – Manila Demoers

Robert "Bob" Reyes
As promised last January during Firefox OS App Days – Manila, each of the attendees (brave souls) who demoed their apps for Mozilla’s mobile OS will receive a Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS Developer Preview) device one released. I fulfilled this promise last night during a simple handover ceremony held at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) Prism Plaza, Two E-Com Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City. Present during the event (held on short notice) were worthy Geeksphone… Read the rest
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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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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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Mozilla-PHL: Zamboanga Goes Mobile A Success

RJ Ian Sevilla
The Mozilla Philippines successfully organized its very first mobile-related event in Zamboanga City dubbed as Zamboanga Goes Mobile -”Open Source Style” last March 16, 2013 at the E-Learning Centre Inc. The event was supported by Globe Labs who provided internet connectivity for all participants all throughout the day. More than 75 participants from the Zamboanga Peninsula attended the event, which aims to introduce the Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace to the Region. The Mozilla Philippines team was represented by… Read the rest
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Sony Mobile Plans to Release Firefox OS Devices by 2014

Robert "Bob" Reyes
Sony Mobile announced at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain that their engineers are currently working with Firefox OS and is targeting 2014 for the launch of these devices. Here is Sony Mobile’s Press Release: Sony Mobile and Telefónica reinforce partnership with multi-year commercial and technical collaboration Telefonica to range Sony Mobile’s 2013 Xperia portfolio including Xperia™ Z and Xperia™ Tablet Z Telefónica establishes technical partnership with Sony Mobile to leverage opportunities with the new Firefox OS open… Read the rest