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Firefox and Tizen make a move for Android

Alongside myriad new tablets and phones, Mobile World Congress 2013 also gave us our first real look at Mozilla’s Firefox OS and the Samsung and Intel collaboration, Tizen OS. While Android might dominate the smartphone landscape today, it’s only five years old. I can recall plenty of headlines in 2007 and 2008 that doubted whether there was room for yet …

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Google exec: There’s a wall between Nexus, Motorola

BARCELONA, Spain–Google considers its own Motorola Mobility unit the same as HTC or Samsung Electronics when it comes to their relationship. “It’s almost as if they are a separate company,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for Android at Google, adding that there is a wall between the Nexus business and Motorola. Still, in answering a question about whether …

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