Fennec News & Articles

Mobile browsing is one of the few boom areas for telcos, but browser competition is stifled as owners traditionally stick with whatever comes with their phone -- Safari on the iPhone, IE for Windows Mobile, Chrome for Android, Opera on everything else and so on.

Attempting to stir up some competition is Fennec, the cunning little fox from Mozilla that has had an extensive Alpha, going back to last October and is now available in beta, hopefully having recovered from last month's abortive pre-beta test.

The mobile browser war has been waging on with recent releases from the likes of Mozilla, Opera and Skyfire. And while each has been keeping up with functionality and developments in their own right, last week the contender likeliest to come out on top stepped onto the battle field and got blown to bits.

What we’re referring to, of course, is Mozilla’s pre-alpha release of Firefox Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec. The early test version was made available to HTC Touch Pro, but to the dismay of many an excited mobile enthusiast, wouldn’t load any Web pages.

As the ever popular browser battle wages on all over computers around the world, a mini version, equal to its predecessor in casualties and bloodshed, is going on somewhere just as close to us — our cell phones.

We have been keeping our eyes on the browser wars for quite some time here at CMSWire. While the battle has been heating up on desktop platforms, the new and cool thing is mobile browsing.

Mozilla has been lagging behind in the mobile arena, but that may have changed with Mozilla’s latest mobile browser — Fennec. Fennec enables the very things that made Firefox so popular: extensions. The first extension has been released and things are moving quick.

PaperThin has announced the availability of CommonSpot Content Server version 4.5, the company’s flagship Web content management solution.

This release introduces expanded authoring support for the Mac platform and for Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox. New collaboration features include email review. A Web Services-based content import facility adds ease of integration and content migration. A taxonomy module will please the IA's in the group. And several new features are targeted at larger-scale organizations.

Stellent, a global provider of Content Management Solutions, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2005 ended Dec. 31, 2004.

Year-over-year revenue growth was 44%, total revenues for the nine-month period were $78.3 million, net income for the period was $0.2 million (GAAP).

Third quarter fiscal 2005 revenues were $27.7 million, an increase of 44% from the $19.2 million reported for the same period last year.

Autralian publishing solutions firm with a fondness for the accent aigu has today announced the latest release of their XML Content Management System (CMS) and Publishing platform.

Typéfi Publishing System (TPS) v2 targets in ease-of-use for automated publishing solutions with an emphasis on workflow management and content management capabilities.

The TPS product consists of three components, Content Management, Workflow Management, and Automated Publishing. The publishing component can produce up to 15,000 print ready documents per hour.

The Apache Lenya development community has announced the 1.2.1 release of Apache Lenya. Lenya is an Open-Source Content Management System (CMS) written in Java and based on open standards such as XML and XSLT.

Lenya is built on top of Apache Cocoon and other components from the Apache Software Stack. Its XML-centric architecture allows for content delivery targeted to the capabilities of various devices, and avoids data lock-in.

Apache Lenya is built around "Off the Shelf" components from the Apache Software Foundation.