Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is considering acquiring Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS or buying another mobile operating system, according to some reports. According to an interview, Cher Wang, chairwoman of HTC, said that the members of the board have been thinking and looking at options whether the company will buy its own operating system, but ni decisions have been...

Mozilla has revealed its plans to turn the Gecko engine into an open source operating system that is aimed to work on smartphones and tablets. The new project is called Boot to Gecko (B2G), and its source code will be released to users “in real time,” wrote Mozilla researcher andreas Gal in a forum post. Gecko is the engine that powers the Firefox web browser...