The Firefox OS smartphone will soon be no more. Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it would stop developing and selling smartphones based on its experimental mobile operating system.
Telefónica, one of the largest Spanish telecommunications companies with a big presence in Latin America, announced this week that it had acquired eyeOS, a cloud computing startup behind a suite of open source web applications. With this acquisition, Telefónica further enters the realm of enterprise internet solutions, as well as open-source software.
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Firefox Operating System and Telefónica just made a deal to bolster its entry into the burgeoning Latin American wireless market. Telefónica and FireFox just announced a partnership with Line, a calling and messaging app, that will give Telefónica subscribers with Firefox OS phones exclusive access.