Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — It’s regular carriers and regular technology that will bring Internet access to the billions of people who lack it today, not sci-fi ideas like Google’s Project Loon balloons or Project Titan drones, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg thinks. “People like talking …

Firefox OS is Mozilla’s browser-based operating system. Mozilla BARCELONA — Mozilla announced partnerships with Verizon Wireless and other carriers to bring phones running its Firefox OS to wealthy countries where the browser-based mobile operating system today is all but unknown. The partnerships will mean Firefox OS phones in the United States, but Verizon isn’t the only partner. Others announced here …

The Android-powered Huawei Watch is designed to bring a more classical look to the smartphone market. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Huawei debuted its first smartwatch Sunday, upgrading its mobile device ambitions with an Android Wear-powered model designed to look as much as possible like a classical round-face timepiece. “People prefer the traditional classical watch, but today, smartwatches are not traditional,” …

Now playing: Watch this: SanDisk crams 200GB into a tiny microSD card 1:51 BARCELONA — Flash memory specialist SanDisk hopes you’ll be taking a lot of photos and videos with your smartphone. At the Mobile World Congress show here, the company announced a range of storage products geared for folks whose phones and tablets just don’t have enough storage space. …

The Orange Klif is Firefox OS phone that the French carrier will sell in 13 African and Middle Eastern countries starting in the second quarter of 2015. The price of up to $40 includes six months of voice, text, and data service. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — By bundling a Firefox OS phone called the Klif with six months of data …

Telefonica’s Tu Go service enables voice calling and text messaging over the Internet. With WebRTC, it now works in browsers, too. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Telefonica, a carrier that sells mobile network service access in several countries — including the UK under the O2 brand — has embraced Web technology to give customers new ways to make phone calls. Through …

Looksery analyzes faces and applies special effects to video. Looksery It’s Android time for Looksery, maker of a special-effects video app that does everything from beautify faces to give them X-ray skulls and lipstick kisses. The company got its start last year with a version of its app for Apple’s mobile operating system. That iOS app now has 2 million …

In Windows 10, Microsoft will support Mozilla’s asm.js technology for fast JavaScript apps. In a partnership that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, Microsoft has strongly endorsed Mozilla’s asm.js technology for bringing graphically intense games and other performance-critical software to the Web. During the last 10 years, much of the work that in the ’90s would’ve been handled by …

Flash logo Through a Firefox project called Shumway, Mozilla on Thursday took an important early step toward building a Web that works without Adobe Systems’ Flash Player. Flash spread widely more than a decade ago so website developers could embrace games, streaming video, animation, graphics and other features that were hard or impossible with a regular browser. Such browser plugins …

DJI’s Spreading Wings S900 drone has a camera mount, but an alliance with camera makers could make it easier to take high-quality aerial photos. DJI Attention photographers: mainstream drone products with high-end cameras appear to be readying for takeoff. That’s because DJI, maker of the popular Phantom series of camera-toting drones, has joined Olympus and Panasonic in the Micro Four …